hehe, explosive kiwi's :P cool stuff man. Just played the rocketbirds demo and that was fun. No idea on the technical side of stuff but a little more contrast or somthing to make the chars stand out a little more might be cool... hope you post updates soon man
JohnnySix: Looking for references, I found a shit ton of shmups that had horribly contrasty backgrounds. One in particular was a night scene overlooking a city. The bottom 2/3 of the background was essentially single-pixel noise. I don't even know how that made it past testing, because I could barely see the bullets even…