Thanks ^-^ (and glad to hear you like it, too ^-^) I know the game doesn't really have any sound effects, I tried to look for good freeware sounds, but none of them quite seemed to fit, so after looking for quite some while, I decided to just leave the sound sound-less instead of putting some maybe-more-annoying-than-atmospheric sounds in it ^^; You can listen to your favourite music when playing the game though ^-^
Oh yes, I know what you mean - the bosses aren't really too difficult because people got frustrated when they lost at a boss and had to redo the entire level, but you're right - one thing I could have done is to make ordinary levels and then just one level for the boss, it's something to keep in mind for the future ^-^ The bosses do get slightly more difficult after the desert level though, sooo let me know what you think of those you're about to encounter next - there are four more, after all ;3

(Inspirations? That's a good question - I don't really know - there's quite a large amount of feedback and suggestions that went into this game, it started out pretty basic (like, bosses didn't have a life-bar, and you could only take three hits before getting knocked out, and no power ups either). I've played a couple of shooter games when I was really little (mostly "Lethal Zone", but this game isn't really anything like that), but that's about it (My cousin always used to play R-Type, though it always looked waaay to hard for me *-* ). What mostly inspired me making this game was a game googley made (this one), eeeeven though it's entirely different, I wanted to try making one too, after playing it ^-^)