It's wonderful hearing how much you enjoyed the vibe we've cultivated, we really appreciate it.
We'll most likely be reviewing the ship layout/taskpad instructions to see if there's a way to make some of the navigation a lil' easier without impacting the atmosphere; nothing kills suspense like getting stuck.
We had a couple different ideas for that encoded message planned, but I think we ultimately ended up with essentially lorem ipsum in the final draft as it isn't directly involved in the solution and we were stretching ourselves thin as it was, so you get full points for recognising the encoding format whilst avoiding a rather underwhelming reward for the effort it would have taken to decode!
Thank you for playing and for sharing your feedback, it'll be useful for some fun upcoming dev conversations!
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If i woulda got hit with a lorem ipsum after transcribing all that I would have not been happy lol. I thought it was gonna be the admin password and lead me to an easter egg. If you keep it in maybe add a copy to clipboard button if that's possible. But yeah again I really dug the atmosphere. One extra bit of feedback, at the immediate start I almost quit because I was given a lot of options in the bridge right away (two different computers each with a lot of buttons on them), at first I thought it was gonna be some kind of simulation game. Maybe either start the player in their bedroom, or remove the computer on the left? because it's the same as the one in the server room i think.
True, an important lesson is using 'temporary' text during a jam, hard to know if you'll have the time to come back to it.
The atmosphere was a big focus during the design and dev discussions, glad it paid off!
We'll definitely be looking to sand off some of the rougher edges in the flow of the game, thank you for the bonus thoughts. I'm quite excited to play around with some bits and bobs outside of the jam crunch, who knows where the bridge console might end up!
Edited 'cause the formatting from posting via the mobile site was bugging me.