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Nice work!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1088032,"author_name":"Sviborg","author_uid":"sviborg","epoch":1728372350,"text":"I loved this game so much! It's so nice to see your crabs working hard and creating new ones! \ud83d\ude04\ud83d\udc9a Even though it was hard to figure out some things, the game left a great impression. Great job, team! \ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udf89","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1108143,"author_name":"mackain","author_uid":"mackain","epoch":1728682103,"text":"not the most intuitive game but I really like the concept :) given a few more days of polish this would become a great game! well done","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1109147,"author_name":"bacalear","author_uid":"bacalear","epoch":1728731407,"text":"Great idea with cute characters","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1110647,"author_name":"qwertyuiop","author_uid":"qwertyuiop","epoch":1728791213,"text":"good","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1110660,"author_name":"HCS_Hades","author_uid":"hcs-hades","epoch":1728791482,"text":"Was pretty easy to figure out what to do which was nice - cloned myself until the web browser died haha","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1116480,"author_name":"someone","author_uid":"someone","epoch":1729293951,"text":"Some really neat mechanics here.  \nI tried my best to purge the island of the non-believers but the game really started to chug after day 24.  \nSome goals other than just 'replicate until it becomes unstable' would have been nice to give some direction.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1116672,"author_name":"LDJam user 243193","author_uid":"243193","epoch":1729336256,"text":"Nice crab game. Feels more like gathering resources game. 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