balancing:

• doubled asteroid spawn rate
• decreased thruster speed scaling
• increased starting hit size

bugfixes:

• fixed launch showing up without any items
• ordering of sprites on home screen
• fixed spacebar being able to start a new mission while already in a mission
• fixed escape being able to prematurely end a mission
• fixed hitbar not being reset each run
• fixed stopwatch fading too fast
• fixed boost not working - realise this might need a rework
• added a minor visual for losing fuel from corundum

also:

• added a save system. decided not to include this in this update because the demo is only 30m-1hr and the system is still WIP

next:

• adding a slower introduction to the scientist
• adding some more sfx
• more balancing
• more bugfixing
• performance optimisations
• add endless mode

after this stuff, i'll go in hibernation and start working on the next big content update...