I loved the graphics and the music, overall the artistic part is really well done. You are immediately in the ambiance of the game, well done !
The lack of tutorial make the first few moments really confusing. You have to find the little arrow that open the tutorial on the right. I think it would be better to have it open by default when opening the game.
The keyboard control is a great mechanic, it add a lot to the immersion and work really well with the visual. Great idea to make it the way to control the game, rather than an usual mouse control with on-screen button. The only issue is that you need to mouse click it after every command, so it's rather laborious to use.
Finally, there are a few bug that hinder the experience. As an example, the coordinate have to not be capitalized. The game will not understand "nav C4", you need to type "nav c4". That made the first few use of the command confusing, as I capitalized all my command and got weird result. Also, some stars have 2 word name, but the "record" command can't parse them, so they cannot be recorded.
Overall, I really like the presentation, the ambiance and the concept. The execution, however, was a bit too laborious...
Still a lot of good and an original idea. Good work !
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Thank you^^
Completely agree with the focus issue on the text box. Even when testing, I found it really annoying that I had to keep clicking on the box just to focus (though I did find that pressing spacebar brought it back into focus). Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find a quick solution and had to move on, but I'll be sure to fix it when I continue.
I agree, the capitalization issue was such a big oversight and I should've seen it coming. I also found that bug with the 2 word names and thought I got rid of the names with a space, (apparently not), but to be fair, it was a lazy way of fixing it, so I'll definitely try to come up with a way that it doesn't become a problem at all.