It's got Zach Barth's name on it, so of course I recommend it! If you're not a programmer, this is more accessible than his other games, might be a good fit for you. But IMO it's not his best game.

Hugely impressive and ambitious, but never finished. ARK had huge potential to be a really excellent game, but developer greed and abandonment stopped them from fixing the many bugs. A real shame.

A top-down-scroller bullet-hell game with an interesting twist: limited ammo. you gain ammo using your shield to absorb bullets fired at you. Runs and plays well, looks really nice, but overpriced imo