The game is your basic "dodge everything" game minus all the player skill. My biggest complaint was the hit boxes around each ship. It seemed as though they were wider than intended because I found myself crashing into ships head on or from the rear that I was not even close to hitting, yet the edges of my ship and another could overlap on the top and bottom and it would not count as a hit. The difficulty curve was good, but the choppy break between each "wave" when more enemies would spawn (every 500 points or so?) was not really advantageous to the game except for adding the ten health points on to your current health, which wouldn't really help later anyway when so many enemies spawn that its no longer "skill avoid" instead becoming "find the way to hit as few as possible." But seeing as this is your first game, I will say that is a good place to start. Keep trying!