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The day night cycle was also a wild touch.  Then things started getting a bit trippy and spooky lol highly enjoyable!  And big props for your menu system, its rare to find a useable menu in jam games, let alone an actually attractive one.  Love that.  \n\nGreat work overall, I could see this game working in a larger scale with more development time.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1139846,"author_name":"Dominic Graziano","author_uid":"dominic-graziano","epoch":1744226158,"text":"enjoyed it, some nice touches like teleporting to your ship if you end up unable to get back on easily. has a nice mood to it, good work!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1140130,"author_name":"DrSmey","author_uid":"drsmey","epoch":1744229473,"text":"Cool systems and world. I really like how the solar ship works too, even though traveling around all the obstacles feel a little clunky. Discovering and photographing all the creatures was super fun though.\n\nVery high on my list of games I played so far.","format":"md","likes":4,"spam":"N"},{"id":1141704,"author_name":"TomatoLamp","author_uid":"tomatolamp","epoch":1744260023,"text":"Thanks for playing and leaving feedback, everyone!\n\nI've been working through your games and it's a really impressive batch of entries - if you're reading this, make sure to check out all of their games too!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1141879,"author_name":"Aynu","author_uid":"aynu","epoch":1744265201,"text":"Graphics are amazing","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1141888,"author_name":"AngstjaegerStudio904","author_uid":"angstjaegerstudio904","epoch":1744265443,"text":"Really nice graphics I like it a lot! The UI was really well design! and the gameplay feel was great, may be give some reason to collect. And some music will improve a lot the experience ! Great game! \n","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1141891,"author_name":"Dandee","author_uid":"dandee","epoch":1744265550,"text":"Loved the desert theme y'all used, felt like jack sparrow xD Well Done!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1141893,"author_name":"tinykidtoo","author_uid":"tinykidtoo","epoch":1744265581,"text":"I lose how the mesh is shaped by the ship as it passes over.  Thats a neat feature!  It also really looks amazing as the sunset comes and goes.","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":1141904,"author_name":"Trevor Lentz","author_uid":"trevor-lentz","epoch":1744265779,"text":"Graphics, controls, and menus are all really great. I would love to see more direction in game to motivate me to take on the collection goal. You may also want to not have \"source code\" as the label to your itch.io page for the download, it might confuse some people. The picture taking aspect reminded me of Pokemon Snap. 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I thought it would just be free roam, take pretty pictures, but the collectibles and ship vs walking around and whole day night cycle with timed events was really impressive. I got everything but two timed events that I just missed\/noticed as it was exactly too late. Wished there could have been a way to speed up\/skip time so I could get them too. But I can hardly request more features when you already did so much. And it really is a gorgeous game, well done on not just the art\/shaders but placing them in the world in such an interesting way to make me want to explore it.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld57\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/tomatolamp.itch.io\/cloudseacatalog","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"97394","g_author":"1187261","g_event":"LD57","g_eventkey":"111","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"449137","g_title":"Cloud Sea 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