Thanks for playing and really humbled by this review. The initial learning curve is steep and some of the bugs (particularly one with pip bars in the combat view) don’t help to clear things that much either. If used to this game genre a lot of things are reasonably easy to deduct, if new to these games it can be puzzling and even frustrating. My unhealthy obsession with finishing polish also used a lot of my time in that and not in covering a solid manual or trying to put in a tutorial but i think the end result is good enough to match my polish level standards. Glad that you had fun playing it!

Oh, on the menu… I needed space for too many options so i thought in a rolo-dex style menu as i had already the rotation on ship selection too

thanks for playing! The game went heavily over scope :P (well it’s not that the scope was not initially in my mind…) Complexity around the gameplay kept growing and I think I managed to get enough of it in as to have an interesting result… the pain point is lack of guidance. This thing requires a full tutorial (that it has no space to squeeze in…) that will need to be replaced by some manual or some video or whatever. PICO8 limitations are getting in the way here :P (even though I am already bugfixing some stuff and trying to get the space cleared for a few eye-candy extras I could not fit in the carts during the jam). I am pretty stubborn, so I am committed to get a decently complete version up and running in pico8 alone, but most probably this project will jump over love2D or something else to be a “complete” game covering everything… even staying at 64x64 as redoing a lot of art at a bigger scale is daunting (and I am a pig for 64x64 eyecandy…). Just hoping the experience was good and you enjoyed the game so far!

Totally fair… I got too deep in scope and there was no space/time to fit that in. Already working on a rewrite/refactor that can potentially make the room for it. Thanks for playing!

Thank you, Vav is a great musician, I managed to get him joining and preparing some tracks. Glad you liked the game, thnx for playing!

Yes, a bit too much info and no tutorial… But glad you got it and enjoyed the game! Thnx for playing

Thank you! Sticking strictly to PICO-8’s default 16-color palette was a massive,self-impossed challenge—I usually reorg colors like crazy :P—but I really think I got a look that feels unique and somewhat “un-PICO-8.”

It was a marathon of 12+ hour days battling engine limits and brain-melting logic to squeeze so much in. Since there’s no proper tutorial, I was really nervous it would feel too unforgiving or confusing, so I’m thrilled to hear you had fun with it and cracked the ship configuration piece! I’m already planning a rewrite to iron out the balance and polish those rough edges (and probably add more variations for ships, loadouts, anomalies, etc). Thanks for playing!

I would love it too! Had no time, cart space or energy to get that in… But planning on a post jam rewrite that also includes it. Thnx for playing!

Thanks! That is basically maths… Nothing pico natively provides. I know the game is dense, need to work on a way to add an initial tutorial rift run. Thnx for playing!

I know… Complex game if you are not used to this kind of genre… Needs a tutorial rift run but i run out of space and time for that, planned as a post jam thing after i can make the space. Thnx for playing!