Was a little confused on how to damage the bad guys. Finally figured it out but man is it tough. Not sure if I missed an audio setting, but was really really quiet.

So I like the concept, but along with my praise I have some critiques which I'll get through first before saying what I did enjoy about this.

Firstly the controls felt like they were fighting themselves a little, the game in the beginning is slow and floaty, which made aiming next to impossible when combined with the spinning mechanic. This would normally be evened out by a faster spin mechanic, which would promote a kind of spray and pray early game, but the spinning felt really slow as well. I feel if you make one of these two faster in the beginning, the beginning would be easier to get through.

I thought the space dust were also obstacles for my first death until I accidentally ran into one and realized that's how I would shoot. That would normally be something added in a sort of guide which I saw you say that you didn't have enough time to implement so I won't be holding that critique too hard. I also saw on death you had to reload the page to respawn, which is a little odd. I'm going to assume that means you're new to Godot, and would recommend looking up how to swap between scenes. In a real emergency where you don't have time to implement something better, you can just load a scene on death by doing...

get_tree().change_scene_to_file(<scene_path_from_filesystem_here>) # Changes to a designated scene
get_tree().reload_current_scene() # Reloads the current scene

This changes the scene to whatever the path designated inside is instantly. If my description isn't enough, I highly recommend looking up a video on scene switching, and re spawn systems. They're not too difficult and make a world of difference during development.

Now, all of that being said, once I got some upgrades I really liked what you put together, the 4 different dust types of water, ice, fire, and the normal was an interesting system that allowed for unique builds during the mid-game. There was a nice variety of enemies that, while getting outpaced very quickly, did bring something different to the table.  There were a ton of unique upgrades, and even though I think some of them scale far too quickly (like xp bonus going from 2x to 4x and quickly reaching 10x to 20x), they made for an interesting endgame. I would have liked to see the enemies get stronger over time but that likely was out of your time budget. 

The amount of things you DID wind up adding is fairly impressive for your first itch publish, modular upgrades for one in your card system is usually something people wouldn't tackle until their third or fourth test project, and you added quiet a lot of them to be honest. Not only that but they played alongside each other nice enough instead of being completely separate things. I'd say the only things this game is missing is audio of course, a slight bit of polish and some stronger game feel, otherwise known as "juice".  Overall still a solid entry, and I still enjoyed playing it!

Thoughts:

• The cover art makes me think of a chocolate cookie.
• I don’t yet realize how much spinning will help me. Or I didn’t at first. Then I thought it might help me grab more more meteor stuff quickly as I’m being attacked by the paperplane birds.
• What is this arrow?

Audio:

• The game has no audio. It looks like this might be your first game. I want to tell you how much of a difference audio actually makes. It brings things to life, make it more immersive and satisfying. You can use sound libraries like Freesound.org and Soundly to gather sounds. Generally, everything that moves should make a sound. So you’ll need ambient background sound, and also sound to give feedback to our actions and things that happen, like being attacked, grabbing more meteor stuff for our big meteor, winning and losing.

Visuals: They are nice. The only thing I don’t understand is this arrow. I also don’t yet understand intuitively how many “lives” I have exactly at any moment in time, though I think with practice I would figure it out. Ok, actually I’ve played 3 times or 4 and haven’t yet figured it out, but I may just be slow.

Gameplay:

• Harder than I initially expected, which is good because it felt too easy as I started and figured out my controls.

UI: Needing to refresh the page to play again makes it take more effort and is a bit frustrating, though I get that you probably didn’t have time to set a replay button.

Clever idea with the meteors made of meat! I like that you could collect what you were going to throw from around the scene, and that it changed based on what upgrades you grabbed. Would be nice if sound effects were added to help with a more immersive feel.

This was a cool idea, but the execution could've been better. The dust colletion, with different types of dust is really clever. Also that the ammo is spawning around you. The art is great.

A bit unintuitive to know right from the start how to play optimally. holding down rotation keys and space, and also moving at the same time was a bit hard for the fingers. (maybe a better key placement so, that it's good for 2 hands would've been better) I find it a bit unneccessary, to have an option to spin in 2 different ways, so that way the spinning button was kindof not needed, i think an automatic spin would've been better, or if we just toggled those buttons instead of holding. The shooting part was a bit like an autoshooter, i couldn't really figure out how could i aim better, and the fact that the bullet's speed was based on my momentum did not help either.

How i imagine i would've made the mechanics: have your base automatically rotate, but you can change the direction. Shooting has a set speed. Where your mouse is at, that's where you are shooting, and the closest ammo to your aim gets shot out. This way the gameplay would be more than just movement. I would also consider just sticking the ammo to the other ammos the way we touched it, but it requires testing for me to know if it would be better.

So my biggest complaint is that you basically just had to move, the rest is basically just holding 3 buttons. At least that's how it felt for me.

I like the art and the effects used (though I wish there were sounds or music too). I find it difficult to get used to aiming at the enemies correctly,  but still find it cool that you managed to fit a whole leveling system within your scope. 

By the way, for your future Godot games, use

get_tree().reload_current_scene()

to restart the game, triggered by a button or an input key or anything, that'll feel a lot nicer than refreshing the entire web page. I learned that from the "Your first 2D game" section in the official Godot docs.

This is a really fun and unique game! I liked the particle effects that would come out when you shoot the different ships, it really made up for the audio. The gameplay loop of getting upgrades is really fun too! Overall, amazing job :D

fun loop, i got to the point where i had everything maxxed out. it's good, but the mechanics just seem to encourage you to just hold q or e all the time, and it was annoying that the rotation speed decreased if i wasn't holding onto the button. this made me assume a weird position with my hands where my right hand was on e and space and my left was on WASD, and i sometimes had to move them to click a card. cool start for a vampire survivors-esque game though! maybe giving more reason to stop rotating or switch rotation direction would be good.

Having to spin in order to shoot is a great idea for a mechanic as it forces the player to utilise the spinning mechanic! As some other comments said, some sound effects could really strengthen the vibe of the game but, all in all, I had a  blast; great job!

My first run I collected everything and then bugged out because I rotated it all out at once hahaha. I like this concept a lot! It scratches the same itch for something like Katamari Damacy :) Even really simple sound effects would elevate this a lot if you decide to go further with it. One other thing I would suggest are more desaturated visuals and some kind of parallax or other landmarks in the background as it's really easy to get lost after you've spun out of the original field area. Overall really cool!