A couple of days ago I tried to publish Space Dust on Desura (a side scoller (i.e. R-Type, Gradius)) and I received a response back stating:
"Hey there I do not think your game is suitable for release on Desura, we get a lot of "side scrollers" and to be honest your game is not all that polished."
To be honest, there are a couple of things that do need to be fixed and I just recently fixed them, after getting this email. But I still feel that it would be best to get a second opinion or perhaps even better, another dev to take a look/help out. The game file size is about 28mb, so there's no way to put it up on Stencyl Arcade. What I'm willing to do, however, is share the file with someone via email/Google Drive instead.
What do you get out of this? Name credited in the game and 5% share in revenue. But I will only share with those who have already published quality projects.
Here are some screenshots.