Well, even though it's short, I meant it to be a mini-game. I simply don't have the time to create a full scale shmup dedicated to the whole game.
It took me about a month to finish the game for public testing;
However, I haven't see any worthwhile Ikaruga clones or tributes - The best I have seen is the boss battle with Eboshidori, the first Ikaruga boss, made in Flash. Cheers for the developer. So I feel pretty good that I have created at least a worthwhile level to play.

Thanks!
Even though Kairuga may not be completely bug free yet (I'll just have to find out if anyone posts a bug, then it's the final release), I'm thinking of a new concept.
I'm tight timewise, school's around the corner, which means less time for game development.
But perhaps more time for small mini-games and tributes, ;).

I loved this game - great work on a great tribute to a great game! :D

Brilliant, visually striking and made me play with my Dreamcast again (I'd somehow been ignoring it for the past 2 months)

Great!

Thanks again.
If you visit the download page, you'll see that the location has changed to another part of the forum, and the game just keeps getting updated with fixes for bugs :P

Bad, I am so sad:___________________________________________ERROR inaction number 1of Create Eventfor object sxms:Error defining an external function.;_;