Minor Suggestion: Make “long-range” weapons (Lightning Fryer, Plasma Rifle, Positron Stream) have fade in and out animations (appearing and disappearing, shrink to center, launch as projectile)
Posting this here as I don’t like bumping.
What about making the background a whole solid single color and then the clouds afterwards?
The clouds in my idea will reuse nebula sprites without the additive blending (they’re both gases after all) and use a random color from a gradient:
Not sure how it will look as I obviously don’t have the nebulas sprites so I can’t make example images…