First off, thanks for the positive comments, I think you were quite generous there, cheers. 505 is a good friend and a real master of mod music - we were very pleased he said we could have his music that was once destined for a different Jaguar game.
I agree the controls are not perfect but I find the opposite - I wanted some inertia when changing direction. Guess you can only make the game you want to play & hope other people go with it. The code will be released one day no doubt so you can have a look at changing it if you think it's worth it. I find it's really hard to line up those horrible little V shaped baddies that come down in lines because the controls are _too_ responsive... the ship moves too many pixels at once for me
The pic at the start - it's an in-joke for any real ST fans watching as much as anything, a parody of a very famous pic from a demo... think soft, cuddly friends with nice pictures on their tummies from the 80s