This was an interesting concept with gameplay basis that looks deep and promising ! The art style and music were also good. As you asked for some ideas, here are some ideas I thought of while playing the game.

• Von Neumann probesis a very intersting theme for a strategy game, may be you could a message describing the concept at the begining of the for the players that don’t now what is it.

• Adding more visual hints in addition to the text, like different color for a start system depending on its temperature, illumination,…

• Making the gameplay rules more explicit. It is a little hard to understand when and how the mutation happens. Some genetype features are also difficult to understant.

• Adding some kind of purpose to the gameplay loop. For exemple, you can let the player see that there is a very strange star system somewhere but to access the start system the player need to colonise other start systems first or to build a very specific probe genotype.

• Making the game a little more dynamic, for example by adding different animation depending on how many probes there are on a system. I am also wandering if real time with a pause button could not work with this gameplay.

OMG. This game is the perfect answer to this theme!

Please keep working on this! I keep losing my game because hitting ESC closes it and makes me start over.

Also, I would really like the ability to scroll with the arrow keys or WASD or something.

Beyond that, It would be cool if you could scroll out so you can see more, and the ability to add custom tags to systems so you can take notes would be useful! I keep losing track of what is where!

I LOVE how you implemented this with the genotypes of the Von Neumann probes. The whole time I was playing it made me want to go back and read "We are Legion (We are Bob)" by Dennis E. Taylor

I like the vibe ! not sure I understood everything but I was expanding in the galaxy :) feels relaxing somehow ^^