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Good job.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":992439,"author_name":"Veridis","author_uid":"veridis","epoch":1696304751,"text":"The asteroid defense is a fun juggle with the city management, i do wish i had auto food options though! ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":992448,"author_name":"Aes1","author_uid":"aes1","epoch":1696304779,"text":"pretty good game, I'm not a fan of tower defense but it was satisfying to play. :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1003932,"author_name":"nathmate","author_uid":"nathmate","epoch":1696409040,"text":"I really like the idea but found it hard to get into. I died about 3 times before realising I had to manually harvest food. I also did not realise you could rotate the planet during the meteor defence for awhile (I tend to just jump into games and only read the descriptions if I can't figure them out).\nA low-hanging fruit improvements I can think of is to put symbols over the buildings so they're easier to identify at a glance, especially from the zoomed out view. The flag for the empty spaces do this and are good. ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1010104,"author_name":"LDJam user 377546","author_uid":"377546","epoch":1696502842,"text":"I'm a fan of tower defense \ud83d\ude04, and I like the concept and the fact that it is completely controlled via arrow keys. I would suggest adding WASD as a second option because, for me, it's just more ergonomic, and I'm used to moving with WASD. I also died 2 times, the first time I was done reading the tutorial and figuring out how to buy stuff, and a second later, it was game over. Then I didn't see the arrows for harvesting, only after reading the comments above did I realize. I think with a bit more sound and polish, this can be a fun little game :)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1012185,"author_name":"henk","author_uid":"henk","epoch":1696543685,"text":"Neat idea.  I like the back and forth rhythm of the meteor showers and the resource management.  Some of the mechanics confuse me a bit, though, like I don't quite see what the incentive is to create more houses, for example.  I also ran into two issues:\n - After losing and restarting, some of the planet's state was carried over into the next round, like crater and building positions.\n - After playing for a little while, the game will sometimes get stuck in the \"asteroid defense\" mode with no asteroids on screen. I think it's maybe triggered by getting hit by too many asteroids?  I had a strategy for a little bit where I would invest no resources into turrets and just rotate the planet so asteroid impacts always landed on an existing crater.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1016064,"author_name":"quasilyte","author_uid":"quasilyte","epoch":1696670691,"text":"The screen ratio made me decrease the browser zoom to see the whole screen.\nEven if I run it in a full-screen mode, it's not scaled properly.\nIs it a web-export issue?","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1016744,"author_name":"Mastoast","author_uid":"mastoast","epoch":1696695394,"text":"The game looks great, and I love what you did with the controls, where everything is handled with the arrow keys, even the post-game summary, that's very elegant","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1018124,"author_name":"Wallbreaker5th","author_uid":"wallbreaker5th","epoch":1696762685,"text":"I like the game and its control. But after a momment I discovered that keeping the crater facing rocks is much easier than defending XD.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1018127,"author_name":"Voidsay","author_uid":"voidsay","epoch":1696762812,"text":"I'm having this weird glitch where I can't build anything. When I hold down arrow it goes half way and then resets.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1018190,"author_name":"BlueDandelion","author_uid":"bluedandelion","epoch":1696766489,"text":"This is pretty impressive for a compo game. I found a glitch where if you lose and restart very fast the planet is out of screen","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1018683,"author_name":"LDJam user 377116","author_uid":"377116","epoch":1696784959,"text":"A bit too complicated for me, a slow start would be cool. I really like your concept of interlinked ring menus!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1018855,"author_name":"Agraffs","author_uid":"agraffs","epoch":1696791403,"text":"I was pretty blow away by this ! The game is good and I like the idea of an earth saving situation... The game puts things in perspective. The game is easy to understand, it took me a few tries dying before I understood what I was doing wrong and know what mechanic cause it, but I kept wanting to come back. Really nice submission. Big GG to you ! :)   ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1027053,"author_name":"Hydezeke","author_uid":"hydezeke","epoch":1697600114,"text":"This is so so cool! I love how all of the menus are based around the rotation of the game. It's a unique language for this game. I had a super hard time feeding my people ? 1 house produces people so so so quickly \ud83d\ude35","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1028522,"author_name":"EgorMnc","author_uid":"egormnc","epoch":1697753896,"text":"I liked the game interesting gameplay","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1028525,"author_name":"Dan Str","author_uid":"dan-str","epoch":1697753969,"text":"I'm grateful that you didn't let the short deadline stop you from making a fun and engaging game. 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