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(I would even suggest adding natural deceleration, however I understand that you want to maintain the \"space feeling\", where momentum just stays the same, and it would break it)\n\nAnyway good little game, well done ! :smile: ","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":1184548,"author_name":"SinusQuell","author_uid":"sinusquell","epoch":1760540801,"text":"This game reminds me of \"Solar 2\". Since then, I've never seen someone do something like this, so pretty original idea! I like it.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1187336,"author_name":"oller125","author_uid":"oller125","epoch":1761074709,"text":"Love the visuals and the music, but it wasn't really clear what the salvage actually was, or what the question mark and exclamation mark were for. I liked that you had to accelerate in the opposite direction to slow down.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1187377,"author_name":"7uc4s","author_uid":"7uc4s","epoch":1761079074,"text":"Pretty nice overall, though the ship is very hard to control, died a few times going out of bounds :( liked the graphics and the ship noise!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1187390,"author_name":"evil23","author_uid":"evil23","epoch":1761080347,"text":"Nice music and visuals. I mostly died because I accelerated too much and went out of the play area.\nControls are all in all pretty difficult to handle. Even aiming is hard if the enemy is \"half a screen\" away.\nShooting felt nice though, with nice light effects.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1188084,"author_name":"cassowary","author_uid":"cassowary","epoch":1761227150,"text":"I imagine this is what piloting an actual salvage spaceship would feel like... I really like the music and art, but I keep going offscreen and not being able to get back in time due to the floatiness of the controls.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1188380,"author_name":"NickFleming_","author_uid":"nickfleming","epoch":1761255135,"text":"Nice little space shooter, love these kind of 2D space games. I liked it a lot, although I found the steering a bit too strong for my preference. Slowing down was a bit difficult and I ended up drifting off the map a few times without managing to get back before dying. A short explanation of the symbols would have helped, it took me a while to realize that the ? meant salvage.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1188430,"author_name":"BryceLTaylor","author_uid":"bryceltaylor","epoch":1761260897,"text":"Fun.  I like asteroids style spaceship flying.  I do think that it would be good if you had some more warning about where the edge of the map was.  At first I just kept dying that way and I wasn't sure why.  Then when I figured it out I just moved around really slowly, which made it less fun.  \n\nAt first I wasn't sure how I was collecting the salvage.  It just seemed random.  I think a little progress meter of some kind, or some other indication of progress for collecting them could help make it clearer what is happening.\n\nI do like the sound effects for the motor.  The pitch indicating the speed is a nice touch.\n\nOverall, I liked it. 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