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I realized that I did push the change to add a custom star name (gear icon top left). More features coming soon. 

Thank, yeah I've thought about it and have a draft in the works where you can set a custom star name and planet names. I hope to finish that feature soon. 

Thanks for the comment and your interest in this. Initially I had started with trying out Perlin noise to generate the background. But the main reason I removed it was that it was taking a performance hit and too long to generate a background that looked reasonably well. To make it look realistic, I was having to do several passes of perlin noise with different frequencies. There might be faster ways to achieve the same thing and that's something I could try in the future. If you know about such approaches - would love to learn about them!

Customizing the Star's name is now possible!

Thanks for the feedback!👍Implemented star's name customization. Let me know how it works for you!😊

Acknowledging your suggestions, I've initiated the first of many personalization features: the ability to tailor the star's name

Thanks for your feedback! I've begun implementing customization features, starting with the star's name. Please let me know how it works for you.

Thanks for the feedback. I have updated it to the  Attribution 4.0 International  license.

Beautiful!!

Love this! Recommendation: Add an 'examples' folder in the download with different types of maps so it's easy for beginners to get started. 

I think that building something end-to-end .. even if it's very simple would be great. So some sort of points system and survival mechanism, difficulty etc .. which the player can play - even if for a very short time - and then win or lose. I think that'll validate if your game engine has all the features you need to start building a real game

Curious - what are the next set of features you're planning to add?

You've articulated this in a really profound way. And very happy to know that you've made the first demo. Good job!

Sorry about that .. thanks for reporting . But I just tried Chrome, Safari and Firefox and it's working on them. What Chrome version are you on?

Also, I'm curious... what's your use case of sharing it externally outside of Itch? Users don't have to be logged into Itch to see the map

Will help me prioritize my TODO list :-) 

Glad you liked it.

About sharing externally: Not at the moment sorry. 

I do plan to publish this as a standalone app with the option of adding the seed in the URL so you can either use the main URL for a randomly generated map, or  use a URL with seed so it'll always return the map specific to that seed. 

It's in my TODO list and will ping you once I publish a standalone app

Thanks