Definitely a really cool game!

Although the tutorial felt a little bit... lacking? It did not explain to me what critical mass is and how to reach it in time, but on the other hand it had cool videos that barely loaded on my machine. Kind of feels like the priority was a bit messed up there.

Another thing I did not understand is why I shouldn't just "bank" the things I collect as soon as I got them. I mean, they can't be knocked off and I still get to grow bigger in size?

All in all, it's still a really neat game. Having a  pool of objects around you that get's bigger unlocks some special kind of satisfying feeling in me. And the controller support is really the cherry at the top. My takeaway from the game though is that I really should check out Katamarí.

P. S.: Thanks for checking out my game yesterday on stream. :)

Hey, I’m a fan of your YouTube channel! Fun seeing your game here. I especially enjoy that your game has a GDD that is publicly viewable too. I am currently designing a bigger project with your template, and it works great.

But onto your game:

Positives:

• The video tutorials are great for learning the game.
• I enjoy the gamepad support.
• The music is nice.
• The feeling of scale is one of the best ones I’ve seen, I get a nice perspective on it by seeing the planet.
• I love the sheer number of stuff in the world, even if it impacts performance.
• Collecting lots of things and the structure being shaky is fun.
• The powerups are fun to collect.

Negatives:

• The WebGL version is fairly laggy (and didn’t load video tutorials), so I downloaded the windows build.
• I personally didn’t choose to engage with aiming up/down, instead only using the triggers to fly up/down as to not affect my vertical orientation.
• Some of the UI elements were a little confusing to me, mainly the right-hand side vertical bar, and what quota means. But it could also be my own error that I didn’t read something.
• At first, I couldn’t understand what my win condition was. But I realized that the top left shows both current and goal sizes. At the time, It conflicted with when I read “Quota”, thinking it was a quota to meet.
• At first, I felt heavily inclined to absorb everything I found immedietly instead of holding onto them, as they become shaky and I thought they would fall off. But after playing again, I learned I can attach a lot of things, and that made playing it more fun.

Overall quite neat and jam packed with features! I’ll try making sure that I check out every jam game you do that I also participate in. Cheers!

I think this game would have benefited from having fewer mechanics. The tutorial is long, and the flight mechanics are cumbersome (and takes two hands on the keyboard and one on the mouse for a total of three hands.) If more time had been spent on the flight mechanics, this could have been quite good. Still liked the idea and ambition!