Thanks! I did see that tool and it is pretty damn amazing, good on ya! But I'm going for a retro 8 bit lo-fi look for the ships and a hi-fi (not music tower lol) for the effects and backgrounds. however nothing is set in stone of course <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile">
I've messed around with lot's of options for controls and actually have the asteroid controls in there, they weren't tweaked yet so they don't work that well and as such disabled. Having said that, I'll probably add multiple control schemes in there based on what players prefer. I actually had a similar issue of losing track of movement due to the parallax layer messing with your depth vision I think.
These controls are kinda based on Echoes, if I recall that control scheme correctly (can't get it to run on win7 64bits to check, too bad echoes was an awesome game). But it doesn't have these parallax layers messing with your mind <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" title="Very Happy">
http://www.binaryzoo.com/echoes_page/