Judge feedback

Judge feedback is anonymous.

• Playability - Polished, bugless, in-game guide, accessibility font toggle, volume slider, etc. all make for a great experience! - The onscreen vignette, music changes, and orbit line colors help with understanding what's happening on screen. - You can't zoom in/out while the game is paused. - I would love a camera mode that follows a planet. Theme Implementation - This is an interesting interpretation of the theme that goes outside the box and I'm all for it! Cleverness - As a demo I'm a fan of this gameplay loop. I think there's a lot of ways you can develop it as well. It would be great to be able to combine planets. Maybe every planet starts as a lava planet unless they're too close to the sun and if you get them to collide you can make larger and larger planets until they cool. Perhaps larger planets can take a hit from an asteroid now and then. Perhaps instead of just being the sun you're God or aliens, that way you can give players more abilities, such as being able to correct orbits with more fidelity. Perhaps the sun slowly changes from blue to red over time. Maybe keeping 1-2 terran planets safe could yield some interesting results after 30 million years... Your game has a ton of potential and I encourage you to take it further! Artistic Style - Lovely title page. I think my only issue with your art design is that a lot of your UI elements seem to be put through a pixel filter rather than either be designed for a pixel art game, or just be vector art. The HD-dithering look you have going on is quite nice, it might be good for your game to lean in to that aesthetic in every aspect of it to unify the art themes going on. - Keep your pixel sizes consistent! https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/131445/what-makes-scaling-pixel-art-different-than-other-images Making pixel art games is hard! I'm a fan of the Pixel Art + Vector Art hybrid approach used in games like Celeste because you have more flexibility with different resolutions, an easier time with text and animations, and more graphic fidelity for small details. You unfortunately lose a lot of the beautiful details the further you zoom out. It'll take a lot of work but I think you can introduce new elements on screen that are visibly pixel art the farther you zoom out, such as distant pixel art stars. You can also give planets and stars mipmaps/switch out their textures depending on their zoom. - Your sound design is great! - I only have Unity and Unreal hands-on experience so forgive me if this doesn't work, but https://youtu.be/5KBNGKYV-vU I think you should try looking into using the animations for your UI. You're missing Hover, Pressed, Released animations for a lot of the smaller buttons. Congratulations on making a fantastic submission with excellent presentation, documentation and polish. Thank you for your participation!