When the player has won, allow them to keep playing

[Riot]

After taking them to enter their high score, return them to the earth sphere and

• Disable further score accumulation
• Spawn a bunch of powerups
• Spawn one or two random weapons they don't have, if there are any
• Spawn new armour if they need it
• Unlock all tunnels and disable them locking once you pass through them

Basically let them sandbox their way around the play area.

[Riot]

Perhaps unlock the enemy launcher for them to play with? It would need a model as well.

[Riot]

Removing milestone: Gold (automated comment)

[Edward Hart-Davis]

Spawn enemies that you can encounter in the tunnels which can damage the player's ship if your RNG luck is bad, but make them unable to destroy the player's ship.

[Riot]

There is no concept of "damage" in sphereFACE; something is either destroyed or it isn't.

Punishing the player for actions they have no choice but to take with random rolls is a pretty crappy game design pattern, too.

[Edward Hart-Davis]

I mean reduce the shields by one or two pieces if they're there, and otherwise do nothing.

Also, I guess this would be a 'hardmode/endgame' thing. I guess you're right it's not wise to do it for most users though.

[Riot]

I'm all in favour for increasing difficulty, but that's done by setting hard challenges for players, not by randomly punching them with an invisible fist they can do nothing to avoid.