I don’t know if anyone remembers the old Amiga 500 shooter game called S.W.I.V. (aka Silkworm 4). I’ve been noodling with a 2D shooter prototype engine in Flash inspired by this and the alpha version is located here in case you want to take a look at it (it’s only 29kb). The graphics are very basic but it conveys the concept.

Features:

• Movable spaceship with a 4 shot fire limit and turbo/afterburner
• 1 type of enemy with random size and speed
• Parallax scrolling
• 3 lives and energy bar

I might add more features and better graphics at some point but until then have fun with it :0D