This is such a cool idea for a game, I haven't seen anything like it before! I guess you like space RTS games then!
Things I liked:
- The overall scavenging nature of find some fuel and get out.
- Without reading the instructions, I knew what was supposed to be a fuel tank just from the art alone, even though looking at it objectively, I'm not really sure how? Perhaps it's the fact it has the same graphics as the back of my ship? Maybe that it's glowing?
- The artwork is great, it's cohesive and has a nice sci fi feel to it.
- The use of the theme, you're joined to your ship. It's loose but it works!
- The ability to control your mothership is a nice touch.
- The camera zooms out when you control the mothership which adds a surprising amount of depth.
- The trails on your ship look great! (Although when you're not moving they look a little funny!).
- Space debris is interactable, it's fun to crash into it to move it out the way
- The warning when the sun gets too close
Suggestions:
- The controls seem a little too spacey, I felt like I was on ice and didn't really have as much control over my ship as I would have liked. I wonder if mouse controls would have felt better? (ship flies towards mouse, click to pick up / interact).
- I wish the big fuel tanks gave more fuel
- I would have liked to be able to steer the mothership, and with some kind of radar/indicator to locate where the transporter is, because right now it's just straight ahead!
- A restart button for when you know you're dead! I have to refresh the page currently.
- Make it run faster in a browser! For me it randomly had framerate issues.
- I would have liked to be able to turn around while being towed back to the ship. Towing is quite slow, but useful as a brake when you're flying really fast in the opposite direction (because it immediately kills your velocity), so while using it to brake, I would have liked to be able to turn around, and then once in the right direction, use the thrusters of my own ship.
Overall, I really enjoyed playing and I hope to see more! Will you be developing it further?