Looks sweet, I'm having similar journal issues, too...

I'm at work right now, but I'll play it tonight, so there is hope.

EDIT:
Aight, my conclusions:
Very pretty, very polished so far. I like the style a lot.

Problem-
Hard to tell where you're going (Enemy indicators help, though)

Consider-
Adding a trail to the spacecraft, like a glowy path that fades away quickly, so it's easier to sense direction.
Adding parallax scrolling stars in the background.

Oh, and maybe different colored enemy bullets?

Thanks. [smile]

Adding a ship trail and more parallax layers are both high on the TODO list already. (It's good to know I'm not the only one who would notice.)

Up until recently I had simple lines for trails but I ended up removing them because of their hacky nature. I will do them properly this time.

I think the stars in the background will remain one flat layer because the speed of the craft is too slow to motivate any star displacement. However I thought of adding some grit and debris to the foreground layer as reference points.

I'll also experiment with different looking enemy bullets.