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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Mood | #6 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
| Sound | #14 | 3.056 | 3.056 |
| Overall | #16 | 2.944 | 2.944 |
| Graphics | #29 | 2.556 | 2.556 |
| Gameplay | #30 | 2.500 | 2.500 |
Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Interesting concept! I included it in my Love Jam compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :)
Wow that was pretty interesting! I ended up scanning halfway through and found one star that seemed to have pretty unique pattern and then mission control told me it was just our signals bouncing off! Darn! xD After that though, I ended up getting an error about space.lua line 165, attempt to index signal a nil value.
I like the idea too! The atmosphere, dunno if intentional or not, was one of loneliness as I went through and clicked across multiple stars. I agree though, to improve it would be less clicking, more just scanning the sky with your telescope, and getting a hot/cold noise, similar to how the Signalscope works in Outer Wilds
While I like the idea, I didn't enjoy just clicking around till I found something. Maybe some kind of hot/cold feedback could make for a more interesting exploration loop ?
The repetitive part of the gameplay really stresses the loneliness of space traveling and intelligent life search. I like the audio too. Nice job
A little buggy, but I had a good time looking for aliens!
It has a great atmosphere, makes you feel alone. The gameplay is akin to searching for a needle in a haystack. That said the gameplay fits the mood as being quite lonely.
Very nice mood. I've felt lonely and hopeless playing what i think is the goal of the game.
Oops got an error clicking on a star:
Error: space.lua:155: attempt to index local 'signal' (a nil value)
Before the error though I got to play a bit. The idea seemed interesting, but it didn't make for very fun gameplay.
Perhaps with more atmosphere this would be a nice relaxing thing though.
Yeah, someone else had that error as well. It should be fixed in the LonelySkies_fixes.love file.
I agree that the gameplay isn't very interesting. I'd hoped to add some extra complexity to it, but I didn't have enough time to add much. Maybe I'll try and make another game with the same concept, but with more time.
Thanks for your feedback!