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The graphics are well made too, they give me vibes of games from the ~2010s - a nice blast from the past.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1207790,"author_name":"Lehmy","author_uid":"lehmy","epoch":1776901435,"text":"Nice game, the signals can be a bit tricky at times, but my brain managed to work for once ^^ \nonly critic i have is that the buttons for the position sometimes are confusing or even overlapping each other, which was a bit frustrating at times.\nOther than that great job","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1207801,"author_name":"zoeek","author_uid":"zoeek","epoch":1776901704,"text":"Chill simple game that kept my interest. Well done :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1207824,"author_name":"Yanato","author_uid":"yanato","epoch":1776902133,"text":"Nice one. I remember the games we played during breaks at school","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1208538,"author_name":"Alpharius_003","author_uid":"alpharius-003","epoch":1776931795,"text":"Interesting game, but I think the control is a little bit weird. One small suggestion, make the delete option into recycle? I accidentally deleted my booster and the rest of my money can not afford another one so I'm stucked there.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1208600,"author_name":"Roitchie","author_uid":"roitchie","epoch":1776933638,"text":"Fun entry. It took me a little while to figure out how it worked but once I did it felt nice to play. The map gradually expanding and more and more paths to try and get the signal too added a nice steady ramp up in difficulty. The art looks great. Well done! ","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1208604,"author_name":"Jo Bettaque","author_uid":"jo-bettaque","epoch":1776933695,"text":"Cool idea and fun game. The satellite was a bit hard to get right but the game still workes","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1208674,"author_name":"ValentinWB","author_uid":"valentinwb","epoch":1776935723,"text":"Roger that !","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1211915,"author_name":"caeonosphere","author_uid":"caeonosphere","epoch":1777026178,"text":"Neat idea! I found that I was mostly just going for the closest spaceship and repeatedly ignoring the farther ones, even after the screen zoomed out a couple times: it would be more challenging if you had to deliver signals simultaneously instead of just taking care of them one at a time.\n\nAnd yes, the music did start driving me insane... :D","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1212637,"author_name":"Pavel Goncharov","author_uid":"pavel-goncharov","epoch":1777047716,"text":"It's a good game for the jam, but you should reconsider the music next time \ud83d\ude05 (no offense)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1212688,"author_name":"HelenaJaine","author_uid":"helenajaine","epoch":1777049180,"text":"@pavel-goncharov , @caeonosphere , @mekuire Hey! We'll be replacing the music in the next couple of days! 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Rotating the reflectors also felt a bit tricky under pressure.\n\nYet the music felt more like a lullaby to me \ud83d\ude04\n\nThat said, everything is very well finished and polished, and the visuals look great. Nice work!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1222852,"author_name":"HelenaJaine","author_uid":"helenajaine","epoch":1778048314,"text":"Still, music creation isn't my strong suit. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to change the music this time. We'll try to do a better job with the game's sounds next time :D","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1223553,"author_name":"zhangzhimu","author_uid":"zhangzhimu","epoch":1778153424,"text":"Excellent setting for signals in outer space, and the graphics and visual design are also very pleasing to the eye. The game seems to have a high level of playability.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1224557,"author_name":"Wizard","author_uid":"wizard","epoch":1778278418,"text":"I like this. A low stakes chill kind of game that is surprisingly relaxing and really easy to loose hours too. The only suggestion I have is to maybe make some of the colours more starkly different between each over, as some of them I though were one the correct colour when signalling the respective ship but was told it was wrong, Other than that really well executed. 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