My own project thread as my second post
A bullet hell is basically filling the screen with bullets and you want to avoid dying to them.
I have been working on this for ~ 1 week before I joined Omnimaga.
Here is the game in its current state running with a run through the source code(it is open source for the moment, mabie even through finishing the project)

I would include source code, but I have yet to reach 40 posts.
It will likely consist of a boss battle, a trip to the upgrade menu, and rinse and repeat until you die or run out of bosses to fight. 
One problem though,  I need boss routines.
The one shown in the image is the most difficult pattern of bullet spawning i have yet to discover, but difficulty is not the only goal.  They need to be sweet patterns(much like those found in the link).  I really am drawing a blank as to how to do this, so any help would be nice!

*Edit* I am using AXE 0.2.2. Is this outdated?
If you can create a boss Subroutine that gets called once a frame, that boss will be named after you
                                                                                           You can name that Boss


Ok... here is some documentation.

Ok, will do the documentation.  And I am going for filling the screen with bullets much like in bullet audyssey.
*Edit* miniature scripting system?

yeah axe 0.2.2 is.. kinda... outdated... :O
This sounds cool by the way I hope you can finish it.

Well that's a bit too quick, the base syntax was left the same
But yeah the transition from the last beta to 1.1.x was quite a shock to me too

The rule about other upload sites is only for the download section, in normal posts you can link to any upload site.

I am still here!   Do not worry.
I was having a terrible time squashing a bug that would crash it on the first frame...  I have since worked that out, but I was forced to look deep into my code again... and optimizations happened .
I think I know a way to add some level of skill to the game without taxing the hardware very much... Energy.
The health bar at the bottom is now Energy.  You lose Energy when you 1:Get hit by a bullet.  2:Shoot(not implemented yet).  3:Use time slow(shown in screenshots when screen inverts).
What do you think of this?
The speed significantly increased, and I decided to throw that away for a fantastical graphical effect I stumbled on!
Why do I say "throw that away"?  The effect is impossible without drawing two sprites for every bullet. 
I was also working on the 'Boss API' (a different subroutine for every boss, executed once per frame(if you wanted too you could make a boss routine that isn't a boss at all... it could handle multiple enemies instead  )) and the boss you see in the screenie is an example boss I am not done coding yet(it only lacks health/ healthBar).
Here is screenie of before the fantastical graphical effect:


And here is a screenie of after the fantastical graphical effect:



What do you think?  Is it worth the speed decrease?

Ok.  That is all I have.  Here is the source code download(Fantastical graphical effect included, comment it out if u want, it IS labeled by a comment.)http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ou3aar8po27ayrn

Actually, it's up to 1.2.0

http://ourl.ca/4060/325065

Well to speed up each bullet you could use two rectangles to draw the back part of the bullet and one rectangle for the overlay. How much speed that would save I'm not certain, but it might be worth looking into.