Incidentally, it's not alternating all the time - I've just got siiaqa. OK to pronounce, but u always follows q, and there's 2 i's in a row!

Agreed, it would probably be more challenging if you died when you hit the top or the bottom as well (just another option.) It'd also be nice if you had gravity acting on the plane and space added a force upwards rather than just moving the plane upwards - that'd probably make it more challenging too. Similar to the vertical movement in graviton (without rotation though!)

Nice - the motion blur seems a bit too fierce for me at the moment though, I can't see a thing when I'm going fast because it's so blurry!

Nice start, the graphics are great! Some suggestions though: - It'd be good if it was a bit shorter, at the moment it's a tad to big to fit the whole applet on a laptop screen which is just a tad annoying - Some instructions would be nice, it seems I lose points when I hit the aliens which isn't conventional! - Delay when firing would also be good, at the moment bullets come out constantly and so rather than the shooting effect you get a streaming effect. As well as not looking that realistic (to use the term loosely) it also makes the game a lot slower when shooting. - The sound effects are nice, but more of them would be better! - score would look a bit better with a capital methinks Good start though - look forward to seeing it develop!

...And it looks like there's the classic image bug there. Make sure that you're referring to all the images exactly how they are, i.e. case sensitive!