As promised/threatened, I have uploaded a full playthrough of Chibi Akumas Episode 1 onto youtube, with commentary in which I describe the technical challenges of creating the game!
https://youtu.be/N1cIBoufwsw (https://youtu.be/N1cIBoufwsw)
For more info on the design choices, please see my article in Cpc4Eva's magazine:
http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/games/cpc-2016-games-mag/ (http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/games/cpc-2016-games-mag/)
And please don't forget, the sequel comes out Halloween 2017!
Check out the official site here: http://www.chibiakumas.com/ep2/ (http://www.chibiakumas.com/ep2/) (More website content coming very soon!)
ちび悪魔第二弾幕開けの日本語HPはこちら：http://www.chibiakuma.com/ep2/ (http://www.chibiakuma.com/ep2/)
If anyone has any other questions they want answering, feel free to post them here, on twitter, or youtube itself!