Howdy! You're a fighter pilot venturing into the deep space of Vectron's realm. Watch out for his smart attack-mines. Steer with 'A' and 'D', fire laser shots with the spacebar. If any mine will get away they can inform the HQ and request reinforcement. For every 10th mine that gets away another is added to the reinforcement pool.
I wished I had time to make some awesome soundtrack to this. I recommend you listen to some Lazerhawk or something like that to get the ambience down.
In my opinion minimalism is doing, just enough, to convey a feeling or a certain effect.
PS. The game is written with slick2d and java. It should function on all the three os. (Windows, Linux, Mac) And it's written for the JRE7, so you'll need that.
Fit's the theme, really nice graphics and good gameplay, although another key feature would make it really nice. Some music could really add the tension too when he enemies mount up. Great entry!
My only problem with it is that's just too easy. You can just keep moving left-right non stop, while presing space very fast, and no mine will escape your barrier of shots. I even let a few escape to try make the game a little harder and, still, the strategy was flawless.
I was expecting a step-up in enemies at some point.