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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Visuals | #116 | 3.690 | 4.125 |
| Authenticity (use of resolution restriction) | #165 | 4.137 | 4.625 |
| Overall | #193 | 3.103 | 3.469 |
| Gameplay | #211 | 2.571 | 2.875 |
| Audio | #256 | 2.012 | 2.250 |
Ranked from 8 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Did you work in a team?
I worked alone. It was nice to see I could (sorta) finish a project by myself and make something in a style I hadn't used before.
Was the resolution a challenge?
The resolution forced me to better get acquainted with the Unity coordinate system :)
I used the lowrez starter package by CaliberMengsk, and had some trouble using text on a canvas, so I built my own text renderer.
Besides that, I really enjoyed the restriction and it more or less forcing me to try pixelart, which was a great pleasure.
What did you learn?
I reconnected with Unity and coding, and learned how to make low resolution games.
This was also the first time I did some pixelart, and that was great fun! I used Pixilart.com and I love both the tool and the community.
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Nice Art, nice story… it could evolve into a more Game-like experience, the constellation linking mechanic has some potential with a big starry sky where you need to find different constellations based on notes like aprox lat/lon or descriptions. Some small details… Telescope repositioning was a bit too slow and the pointer clicking on the stars took me a while to figure as the arrow point needs to be outside the star you want to select, maybe a bigger than the star collision box would come handy. Nice job on this entry!
Pretty nice concept. I liked the art.
Keep going!
What a pretty game!! This is a really lovely concept, but I feel the low resolution doesnt wholly lend it self to the visual novel medium.
My only real complaints were the text bubble sounds (they were a little grating), and the fact to click on a star it had to be PIXEL perfect. I have a more sensitive mouth so that was a little hard haha.
Good job, and good proof of concept :) I can also see this being a cool tool to teach people constellations