How's the difficulty? I wanted to go for challenging ergo rewarding but ultimately still managable. I had to play it a lot though while the game was in development, so it's possible that I made the enemies too tough to handle for everybody else.

You have a point Rodrigo. There are a few big ticket items I would have done differently if I had the option to start from scratch on the game this year.
Investigating HTML canvas before committing to PixiJS would be one of them.
Building in TypeScript instead of plain JS would be another.

Thank you for reading to the end, enjoy the game, hope to see your name on a plaque in the Hall of Finishers soon! ;)

But after spending months and months more time on it than intended (e.g. the usual pattern in indie game dev :D), I also hold out hope that if I can put the game in front of the right type of nerd, they might get an evening's worth of entertainment out of it—hence this thread.

I've built the game over 7 months (five in 2020 and two more this year), hoping it could serve as a demonstration of my coding skills, to give me a leg up in technical interviews for Front End Developer positions.

Sublight Patrol is an open source and noncommercial (e.g. totally free) side-scrolling space shooter game you can play in your browser on any PC or Mac at the Url above.

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Their posture is really something when in flight, their head is tucked in close to their body, long neck hanging down below, long black legs extended straight back like a free diver: youtu.be/8sEQCFcP0TI?...

They joined the army to defend their country and not to make the already powerful even richer, so they are relieved and their heads are full of plans for a brighter, peaceful future.

The soldiers are heading back home after finding out that the war they were supposed to fight in was called off because it was stupid and pointless.

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There was a lot to unpack here.

There always was when Chloe gave an explanation on anything."
- Tessa Bailey: Dream Girl Drama

... And she has an eighteenth-century harp crafted in France that feels like I’m playing silk. But she doesn’t want a dog. I think it’s painful because she misses her ex, you know? Even if she would never admit it. Anyway, I offered to take Pierre for a while.”
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