oh this one is so clever wow!! one thing that happens with these short jams is that people don’t have time to make a tutorial and it’s a bit hard to get used to the controls, but this one’s tutorial was really good. i like the adding and removing patterns, it’s super fun but also simple to understand, my only criticism would be that sometimes it’s hard to discern how big a pattern will be on your “canvas,” like differentiating between one big circle and three small circles for example, but otherwise this is one of my favs, great job
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Thanks for the feedback! Glad you liked the tutorial, I wanted to do one like that for so long and was glad I found the motivation to do it this time around.
I did experiment with a few different ways of displaying the patterns, including showing the grid on the planet's surface, having a two-step selection with an preview overlaid on your canvas, and even screen-space textures so that everything always faced the same way, and I ended up making some compromises to fit the vision I had for the overall look of the planet. They may not be the right ones from a gameplay point-of-view though...