The 1.3 update adds 2 new mechanics:

1. Ship speed boosters
2. Ship shields

I'd always had planned on adding ship speed powerups, but decided to finally implement it based upon some recent feedback I had received for the demo. Basically you can get 3 of these -- light-blue aqua Fantom cryptos -- that will increase your ship maneuverability speed.

The other addition is ship shields -- magenta purple Solana cryptos. You already can collect up to 6 lives, however when you take a hit, you lose all your ship upgrades (powerups). Only your missiles are unaffected. The shields will take hits so that you don't lose anything else, including lives. I added these as the feedback I was getting seemed to indicate that the game was still too hard for people. 

Not sure if that is the case, or just people trying the game for a minute or two for a game jam in order to rate and leave a comment in the hopes that I will do the same for their game. They may have little incentive to actually give the demo a proper play, so, the game may not be as difficult as feedback has implied. Regardless, not really happy with the visual effect, and the shield acquired sound is getting drowned out by the rest of the game. I'll need to tweak these later along with the frequency of when they are spawned, as I now really do find the game way too easy to play... Maybe that is just me.

The speed boosters I'm happy with, however, other areas of the game will need to be tweaked to get a better balance I feel.

These I'll aim to complete for the next update along with hopefully adding support for people to choose their controls from preset options. I also want to add controller support. Hopefully Unity's new input system will make this easier to do now. I am also hoping to implement 1 of the 2 additional weapons I have planned. Ideally I want the whole demo finally completed by the end of March -- so far I've had to push things back due to everything involved in finding and moving places.