This was interesting! It took me a while to "get" as I didn't really connect that the star was exploding because of me/time, perhaps the "unlock next stage" upgrade could've been placed somewhere separately to make it stand out more. It was a bit odd that you had to go through all of the stages after each reset though. I would've thought each stage would be its own "layer" that you work on until you unlock the next one and start over with a new set of upgrades and resource. This way isn't bad necessarily, but after I figured that out, it was very quick for me to go from one star to the universe, and if I had a habitable planet right at the start, it meant that the game finished very quickly after unlocking the universe. 

Mechanically speaking, I think the upgrades needed more separation, especially with how slow the scroll wheel works (dragging LMB is much faster, thankfully). Rather than keep each stage's upgrades all in the same column, I think tabs for each of the three sections would've made it much easier to understand what's going on. Also worth mentioning that the star collision SFX is very loud, even with SFX turned down to 10%, they might be overlapping for each star that collides?

But this was cool overall, hopefully you get some more plays now you've got a web build out (I doubt you'll get disqualified for that).

This is a pretty good game, there is a good amount of polish in some areas and I think there is a lot of potential here if you were to expand on it. I really liked the idea of exerting the stars/planets for stardust but possibly harming my run if I push them too far, etc. -- and there is a lot of juice. It's a good game, nice job!

Here are some notes I took while playing:

- I like the SFX and music, the UI feels a bit blocky and distant though (a lot of things pressed against a different edge of the screen), might like to see a little more cohesion there

- If you click too quickly, it definitely seems to become a bit of a flashing lights hazard, would add some kind of warning to your game or reduce the strobing/growing effect. I know you are not supposed to click the star a lot, but the first thing I did upon launching the game (before I understood it) was flood my screen with strobing yellow and red lights haha

- I really liked the gameplay loop and the balance was pretty good. It was a cool moment when I realized about the 'Expand Universe' upgrade, that was a cool moment. And moving to planet automation etc., it felt good. 

- One big pain point is that scrolling the upgrades menu is excrutiatingly slow... I don't have one of those infinite scroll wheels, so it would take me like 15+ seconds just to get to the relevant upgrades, which is not great. This sticks out like a sore thumb because the rest of the game feels pretty good, you might even be able to classify this as a bug and fix it now honestly, because just having 5x faster scrolling would certainly enhance the gameplay experience without adding any "content" ya know? 

- I reached a point where the upgrade tree wasn't expanding any more even though I'd seen quite a few black holes, I'm not sure if I just needed more DNA or what -- but if the upgrade tree did end up only having that couple handfuls of upgrades, I would really like to see more. Though I understand it's a jam game and I'd already spent probably 20 minutes at that point, so yeah it makes sense the content had to run out eventually hah.

Can you please upload a playable web version?