Taos Research Project by LDJam user 139668
send signals into the void. find what it offers you.
Use mouse to click on things. You can zoom and move camera with mouse too.
████████ and █████████ special purple signals. ████████ is definitely not ██████████.

| Link | https://yogurtthehorse.itch.io/signal |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/59/taos-research-project |
Ratings
| Overall | 3th | 4.5⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 12th | 4.269⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 5th | 4.577⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1th | 4.981⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 55th | 4.5⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 13th | 4.4⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 2th | 4.75⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 4🗳️ | 0🗨️ |
Excellent visual design / UI , it did take me a little while to understand i was purchasing new things,
great immersive audio, and very cool concept utilizing theme!
I definitely noticed a sharp spike in my income when I figured out to point the large antennas at each other, which allowed me to buy all the upgrades in the store in literally less than a minute.
It also wasn’t very obvious to me that you can rotate the map by right-clicking in the PC version; I figured that out too late.
Be sure to finish this prototype-it’s a great idea.
A very cool spin on an incremental game (with a kind of narrative goal?). And the signal reflection mechanic is perfect. Vibing very hard with this one.
In games like cookie clicker, you can spam click so you always have something you can do, and the upgrades are smaller but cost less, so you buy them often.
But yeah one of the cooler concepts so far definitely and the visuals are top notch (also our game uses a terminal as well, so it was fun seeing another one, even if its just to log info)
Really great entry.



I did struggle at the end, though. After 8 photos, I couldn’t get more. I was a multimillionare lol, which was awesome, and the waves were going out so far and so fast! I had everything unlocked, and I’d often get purple pings to scan that anomaly x more times, but even after it reached 1, it would never finish and would eventually revert to like 20 more times.
Other than that, it was great, and I love the concept!