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Great work","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1200886,"author_name":"Byte Bark","author_uid":"byte-bark","epoch":1776802416,"text":"Great artwork and fun game to play. Good job!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1203155,"author_name":"2Inkling","author_uid":"2inkling","epoch":1776833294,"text":"Very charming pixel art and I love to see the theme employed in so many aspects of core gameplay!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1203747,"author_name":"Haoxuan","author_uid":"haoxuan","epoch":1776846175,"text":"good game overall better if i can see the signals\n","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1203778,"author_name":"zpdlf003","author_uid":"zpdlf003","epoch":1776846502,"text":"It was fun aiming. The graphics were good, and the sound was excellent, so I liked it.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1204276,"author_name":"Winbion","author_uid":"winbion","epoch":1776854133,"text":"It's a nice game, but it lacks dynamics and a variety of upgrade.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1204352,"author_name":"JHax","author_uid":"jhax","epoch":1776855345,"text":"Played this for a pretty long time! It's good fun! As others have said, pixel art is brilliant, particularly the planet. I do think the difficulty could maybe ramp up a little bit more, but all good other than that!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1206256,"author_name":"3blackpixels","author_uid":"3blackpixels","epoch":1776879653,"text":"Not bad, but needs ingame tutorial","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1206464,"author_name":"JoeGreen","author_uid":"joegreen","epoch":1776881806,"text":"I'm unstoppable!\nCool, complete game. Great work!\n![\u0421\u043d\u0438\u043c\u043e\u043a \u044d\u043a\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0430\u00a0\u2014 2026-04-22 \u0432\u00a021.14.56.png](\/\/\/raw\/6c3\/86\/z\/7255a.png)","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1209871,"author_name":"Sound Steppe","author_uid":"sound-steppe","epoch":1776961692,"text":"looks nice, good work","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1209914,"author_name":"Minus","author_uid":"minus","epoch":1776962414,"text":"The game seems to be quite fun, artstyle is clean and quite coherent, whole jamming situation is a good idea to execute theme, however in general game really fast becomes repeatetive and after just 5-6 packets sent if you had enough luck to get increased fire rate and reduction of damage you are almost unstoppable. Audio is okay, but music could be a little bit more interesting. Overall quite good game idea, possibly worthy of continuing development and exploring how far you can get it :)","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1209916,"author_name":"Stratcat66","author_uid":"stratcat66","epoch":1776962433,"text":"There are quite a lot things I like about your game: The feel, the mood, even the sound.\nBeing an unkillable space ship is also fun, but I was really never nowhere near dying and found it a bit too easy (also the pause between the different waves is a bit long for my taste.\n\nOverall a nice entry and as you can see from my image, I played it for quite a while :)\n\n![im.png](\/\/\/raw\/df8\/2\/z\/727b1.png)","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1209938,"author_name":"Enver Arco","author_uid":"enver-arco","epoch":1776962793,"text":"Very fun game! And well done on the enemy AI they would move unpredictably which made they a challenge initially ","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1215210,"author_name":"kkritselis","author_uid":"kkritselis","epoch":1777162124,"text":"That was fun!  I really liked the design and it controlled well. Nice job!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1215814,"author_name":"thunderklaus","author_uid":"thunderklaus","epoch":1777197494,"text":"Quite nice! Congratulations on a complete game!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1216122,"author_name":"NonDev","author_uid":"nondev","epoch":1777211407,"text":"Fun little game! The enemy ships sure are a crack shot, but once I had a little bit of regen they were very manageable. I think ultrawide display messed with the HUD, because I couldn't see the satellite health\/signal strength. I do wish there was a bit more variety or more difficulty ramping. It felt pretty rare that I got anything but one enemy ship that fired, the rest were just signal jammers.\n\nStill, I had fun and it felt good. Good job!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1220848,"author_name":"Tygrak","author_uid":"tygrak","epoch":1777751078,"text":"Pretty fun game! The art looks really nice! The gameplay is basically a twist on asteroids, but that's good -- it's a classic for a reason, it's always fun to shoot some things with a spaceship :D. The balance seemed a bit off after a few of the upgrades because I was regenerating more health than the enemies could deal, so it could use some balancing and or more scaling on the enemies but that's fine!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1223847,"author_name":"Planetary","author_uid":"planetary","epoch":1778183815,"text":"That... was awesome!! I really like it! About the upgrades, I didn't got that deep into the game, but they stack? I mean, I got damage reduction 10% and after another with 20%, so that means I get 30% damage reduction? And if that's the case, what about getting too much damage reduction so you go get 100% and your ship is invincible. Also, consider spawning more and stronger enemies over time in current game, to get competition.\n\nOverall, that was a good game!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld59\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/thormy95.itch.io\/uplink","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"72878","g_author":"1102944","g_event":"LD59","g_eventkey":"113","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"309876","g_title":"Uplink","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"483","g_commentcount":"21","g_site2_node_id":"426837","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"426837","n_urlkey":"309876","n_parent":"424249","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/59\/uplink","n_slug":"uplink","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"102944","n_created":"1776340445","n_modified":"1779026088","n_version":"1356213","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD59","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":1,"author":102944,"body":"Defend an orbital satellite as it transmits vital data back to your home world. 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