Invader Breaker

Thank you everyone for your comments/suggestions. Tomorrow, I will look over them and respond (I'm bushed tonight... tutored 11 hours straight). Please realize though that I cannot make improvements due to the nature of the "GiTD competition":http://www.kongregate.com/forums/4-game-programming/topics/243400-gitd-24-voting which is currently in voting process. As such, please feel free to cast your vote for the best game... even if that vote is not for my game ;)

This is a game that definitely goes "practice makes perfect"

Very nice job, glad I gave it more then one go

So I got pwned pretty fast, and then left the room to go do something. When I got back, the game (in its game-over state) had slowed to a crawl due to lag. Are you properly disposing of things that move off the screen? If you're handling all of the movement in a single enterframe event (which you should be) are you keeping your array(s) of badguys, bullets, etc trimmed down?

I love the hybrid between the two games. I've always liked them, and I love your spin on the mix. 5/5 and keep up the good work!

Here are a couple of suggestions:
-A small text that pops up to tell you what you just picked up, for example "Speed up!" or "+Speed" or something.
-Score or time-dependant difficulty. As said someone else, once you get the hang of it, you can keep playing forever (heck, I had 260k score before getting bored and suiciding, lol). would be cool to have bosses that start firing at you after a set amount of time, and then turn the screen into a bullet hell after a little longer, that would be cool.

Otherwise, this is an awesome game and despite those little remarks I made, still deserves a 5/5. Polish it a little more and I will have problems because I won't be able to rate it any higher, lol.