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Thanks to everyone who has played so far! <3","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1195499,"author_name":"LDJam user 342640","author_uid":"342640","epoch":1776757481,"text":"Really cool little game, I had fun trying to figure out the signals for the 1 and 2 planets, before getting totally messed up by the 3 planets, lol. Great job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1195850,"author_name":"GoogleFrog","author_uid":"googlefrog","epoch":1776761988,"text":"Neat idea, I like how the signal represents and teaches a bit about something real. My only issue is that the snapping on the sliders made it impossible to enter close enough values somewhere around survey 8.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1203506,"author_name":"Slippers","author_uid":"slippers","epoch":1776841608,"text":"This was pretty interesting! I solved up to survey 5 and whilst from 1-4 I felt like I was able to solve them in a fairly analytical way, for 5 I started to rely on guesswork much more. So I decide to call it there before going further. Layering up the signals is a great escalation of the mechanic, and I'm sure it has grounding in the real world, for which I have no knowledge or undertanding :laughing:\n\nThematically it's on point. Also very cool to see a handrolled Rust game. Thank you.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1204030,"author_name":"goodwayman","author_uid":"goodwayman","epoch":1776850099,"text":"Nice idea! I really like the signal alignment on three different levels! That made the game quite interesting and not too simple. The only thing I struggled with at first was \"how do I manipulate anything in this game\"? After a while I discovered a tiny \"+\" button. Maybe a planet's params should be visible from the start?","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1209316,"author_name":"Daliamha","author_uid":"daliamha","epoch":1776950308,"text":"Nice game. 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