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Thank you for playing.
I hope you can understand that such a well known and detailed story like "The Lord Of The Rings" (which you mentioned in your comparison) would be hard to compress in a 7 minute long story which was written within a few days for a game jam.

The theme unstable lies within the chapter's detail of the story (I am sorry if it was not clear enough), but in the end it is not like a physics game where "unstable" is visibly obvious.

(I will update the game's description for more clarification).
One core element of the story is the question:
-How society's stability will be affected from a dieing sun?-

Chapter 1: The world suffers from +unstable cimate conditions due to a dieing sun.
Chapter 2: The anonymous source is telling that the World Government is conspirating with the try to gatekeep truth to prevent a +destabilsation of human's society.
Chapter 3: The spaceship's systems are becoming +unstable and the crew's thoughts about the once before trusted World Government is +scattered.

Chapter 4: This one is a bit harder to explain because it is up to the viewer's phantasy and how the post story will be interpreted:
It seems that the "sun" died earlier as expected due to the crash with the ship.
= In the end: the World Gov.'s conspiracy plan to gatekeep truth failed because it would be obvious for the humans that there is no more sunlight.

Possible interpretable post story:
- What will happen with the society's stability without a sun?
- If destablisation, could the society get its stability back because of the incoming secondary light (a new sun) which is the light from the window of the higher beeing's laboratory?

Edit: I edited this so much because I found some typos, one after another, it was early morning for me as I wrote this. :)

I didn’t get anything about society’s stability from the story to be honest, and I find the premise rather abstract, considering humans will never be around to experience a dying Sun (in fact, the Earth will turn into a completely inhospitable Venus-like planet long before the Sun.

Which, again, is not necessarily a problem, but its impact can only be as strong as any other unrealistic completely fictional idea. I brought up The Lord of the Rings not because I think your story has to be that complicated, but because that story is pure fiction and yet gets people fully invested in its world. The fact of the matter is if you want quick and efficient investment into your story, it needs to be grounded. The less realistic your story is, the more work you need to do before it really makes an impact.

I think if a dying Sun is a really interesting idea to you as a sort of fantasy horror concept, you should spend more time really creating a fantasy world that a player can get invested in despite its lack of connection to the real world. Alternatively, create a sci-fi scenario that at least somewhat creates a veneer of realism. As it is, you show a flat Earth – something so obviously at odds with known scientific reality that it’s practically a meme at this point – and a giant room with a giant lightbulb. If you at least made your universe somewhat grounded by saying that humans moved to Mars or something, and if the World Government established some kind of nuclear-powered light-producing satellite or whatever, I might be able to suspend my disbelief enough to take your story seriously with less investment.

Thank you that you are taking your time to write more and showing interest of a more detailed story.

Please take in consideration that this submission was submitted 3 days, 20 hours before the deadline.
I still have more ideas for a more detailed story with some more chapters, but I had to scrap a lot of content due to my time, at least I made this alone including graphics and music.
So I am sorry about that I could not deliver a more detailed story for you.

I know that the flat earth has a certain meme factor, as an artist I wanted to create some emotions about the topic of the flat earth. :)