It's hard to find the right balance between complete freedom and lack of money for indie devs. How can you finance your game ? You can stop eating, or live in your parent's attic, or use unemployment insurance, or have big savings [...]

Shmups are about risks/rewards, about scoring systems, about bullets canceling and other subtleties... No way! Shoot em ups are all about explosions! I wasn't happy with the temp explosions I had, so I implemented a new particle engine in the SHMUP Creator [...]

There are so many things you can do in a shmup! Scoring techniques, power ups, scratching, bullet cancelling... The truth is, we can't support everything, because in this case the interface would be cluttered and too hard to use for [...]