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The idea and style behind the game instantly caught my attention. Very striking and great use of colours.

It is very clear that you have spent a lot of time planning all the elements of this game out, and you have managed to scope everything perfectly in the GDD, which by itself deserves some credit.

The use of multiple different perspectives is great, I especially enjoyed collecting the resources, but that's just my inner Minecraft nerd coming out.

I would have liked to see an in starter tutorial at the beginning of the game, but I do recognise that you have a help menu with lots of info so that did help to mitigate that aspect. 

Great Job, I only wish I had more time to play the game further

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GDD

Perfect GDD, plenty of details and images, and there's even a glossary at the end. What a nice touch.

Gameplay

I could separate the game into 3 sections. Exploration/navigation, resource gathering, equipment fabrication, and combat.

At first, I was confused with the exploration; there's no tutorial in the game. But after I messed around with the buttons, I figured it out, and the game became more fluid. The tracking mechanics saved me a lot of guesswork I had to do on my first playthrough. Something to ease the player on those mechanics would be welcome.

After you get to your destination, the gathering process is straightforward. By sending the little robot to collect resources, it felt like another game, in a good way. For something so simple, there was a lot of polish. The resources are used to craft weapons and components to upgrade your ships, and this mechanic felt pretty good. This whole section is very grindy, but that's the essence of RPGs like that.

Combat makes the game switch over completely. It becomes a classic JRPG, with very in-depth mechanics. I would like to see an easier fight for the start, so let the player know what to expect. And the touch of death not being the end, but a setback, was awesome.

There's so much game in this game.

Art

Amazing art direction. Every section of the game has its own style. The free roaming made me feel like i was inside the ship, the gathering like i was remote controlling a drone, and the combat was just a treat. Different style, great art, everything meshing together. The color palette is great.

The menu is very fleshed out and stylized, and hats off for the intro.

Sound design

At first, all you have are space sounds, so not much BGM. In this section, some SFX when you accelerate pops up. For the gathering, the SFX is nice, going from node to node. Now in the combat, the BGM and SFX shine. Amazing blood-pumping music, responsive and well-polished SFX. What a treat.

Last thoughts

What a fantastic experience. Like I said, so much game in this game. The only thing I would recommend is a switch of pacing. The game, as it is, is amazing; I wanted to spend a good hour on that. I know the game is deep enough to keep me going. But for a game jam, we simply don't have all this time. Being slow to start and having to figure out the mechanics takes a lot of the little time we have, so it can be counterproductive.

I did give a lot of time, though, and I loved the experience. Please keep developing this game; I want to see it on my Steam wishlist soon.

Great job.

Great entry. Love the music, art, and sfx! They really lock in the atmosphere of a space exploration game. I enjoyed the battle and wish I realized sooner the idling will let them heal but it's my fault for missing the info in the how to play. Collecting the resources was cool but I only did one planet with the time I had available I was left feeling like it needed some type of stakes in order for it not to feel like chore. Maybe avoiding enemies or a puzzle? I loved navigating the map I mean your just really nailed down the experience and aesthetic. It really felt like I was a ship commander. Great jam entry! You did so much and did it very very well. 

This game is so cool! Really love the RPG like space exploration thing you have going on here. Love the starfield and traveling between the different sectors. The combat was fun IMO and I really liked the current ways you can build your ships. The UI was cool and I loved the combat music. The only thing I think was interesting was I could kinda just choose to avoid combat if I wanted and kept thinking I would encounter something random while floating in space. But that's just my two cents. 

Your art style was old school and vibed well.

Really loved this one. Great job

Congrats on finishing the jam! I'm really impressed by how much you were able to get done. This is very polished great job!

The art is solid, the sfx and music really work well to give you the scifi feel. The battle music is a banger but the game in general is quiet so when entering battles the loudness change was difficult - I had it turned up to hear the ambience but then it was too loud. Maybe some balancing to do there.

I liked the UI and it fit the screen well, but some on screen prompts for what to press or do would be nice. I found myself a little confused a few times, specifically with the resource gathering.

I liked researching materials and recipes and gathering resources to build things, but I think it would be nice if there was a bit more of an obvious equipment tree with the items. For example wood -> iron -> steel. Maybe it's just the scifi setting but it might help. That or locking more materials and items behind progression as it's a little overwhelming at the start.

I found myself not really understanding the stat assigned for each ship. It might be helpful to have a glossary somewhere or integrate it into a tutorial of some sort. Generally speaking I think a tutorial or gradual easing into the game will solve most if not all problems.

Some other ideas:

• It would be nice if there was combat earlier when gathering resources or some sort of stake
• When you identify an enemy and get information it would be nice if it was available when making decisions in the battle

But yeah, overall a great polished game! Looking forward to where you take it!

Your sense of style remains unmatched, what you can do with RPG Maker is like genuine magic. I did feel that the gathering materials was a little on the tedious side, but it was still genuinely really a fascinating thing when fully put together

Great theming and world building... but i got super lost trying to find a planet. I thought selecting one on the grid would set my course but it didn't seem to do that? But of the parts i saw of the game it looks super polished and like a lot of work. Good job!

Well Done! I'm impressed with how much there is to the game.  I'd say may favorite part is all the UI.  The possibility to do whatever from the start is a lot to take in, made it slow for me to learn.

Really awesome game design! Loved the user interface, quite charming. The star field and atmospheric sounds are very immersive. Nice stuff! Followed!