The game is turning out great, think it might be time to give it a quick review
Firstly the game is very nicely done, the artwork is especially nice.
Your distribution method could be improved. At the moment all your resources are loaded directly (outside jars). This can take a long time to initially start the applet (white screen) once the resources are cached however the applet starts quickly. Another issue is when you play sound effects for the first time they again lag the game as they are not downloaded/loaded. Optimally you should put all your resources in a jar(s) and just get the applet to download the whole thing at the start. This way the game will run smoothly once it starts and not lag ingame.
You should also use the following parameter once you put all your resources in jars for even faster applet startup time.
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| <param name="codebase_lookup" value="false"> |
Mouse input is a must for the GUI (buttons) as this is pretty much expected of all flash/java games nowadays. Optionally you might also want to consider supporting mouse controls for the ship but again not as important as mouse support for the gui.
Pause is spelt incorrectly (when you press the P key ingame)

Your graphics are well done and animation is nice, however the main player ship could do with more animations/detail as this is the ship you'll be looking at during most of the game. You could for example have something like animation to tilt the ship as it moves up and down or some other cool animation on it. The moving tail on some of the enemies is nice.
+1 point if the game installs and uninstalls correctly
+1 point if the game doesn't crash ever
+1 point if the game is slickly presented
+1 point if the game has "good" graphics that suit the game
+0 point if the game has "good" sound that suit the game (sounds effects are nice but could do with some more)
+1 point if the game's overall style is "good"
+0 point if the game is original or brings a great new original twist (standard text book shmup)
+1 point if your judge enjoyed playing the game
+0 point if the game is complete enough that doesn't feel anything is missing (could do with more polish, the little touches that make game games great ones).
+1 point if you don't whine and you demand nothing of the mods (simply saying "can you rate my game please" is fine)
7/10
FEATURED.