Nice idea, pretty well done for the time we had !
I'm not gonna lie, I scrapped my core when I started, was like the first thing I did ahah, I know it's dumb. It could have been nice to have a "how to play" because it took me really a while to get the mechanic and build the proper things. Even repairing the ship wasn't enough or ended up building a lot of storage on it without really seeing what it was adding.
A little hud showing the materials could maybe help.
+1 for the menu/resolution etc... Only the fact that you can go to a menu it's sometimes missing in few jam games.
I liked the atmosphere :-)
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Thank you. I made a little thingie with menu, resolutions, sound/music volume etc. that I reuse for each jam that allows that.
Materials in HUD are tricky because they are by access, you can have 2 cores on 2 different networks that have access to different materials. You can also use enemy's materials if you connect to them.