Flowrate

not a bad little idea, I think the text descriptors maybe... oversell what's going on. I'd love to see the premise adapted further with a meta progress element. I managed to find one of the mega structures mentioned and it let me choose three upgrades in a roguelite style. I think that some actionable improvement steps are: [list] [*]making it so that the quit button returns to the main menu rather than closing the game. [*] implementing post run statistics of some description, how many sites, how many unique planets etc. [*] implementing a meta currency, perhaps some planets have coins that can be spent out of runs to upgrade your ship. [*] more planet variety, possibly with other obstacles (a colonized planet that has people or turrets to avoid) [*] incorporate a reason to (or not to) reland on the same planet multiple times, perhaps shipping things or bringing along a crate from one planet to the next in a snake gameplay fashion. [*] shirk the "minimalism" idea, there's minimalism and then there's prototype, I would say that right now this feels more like proof of concept, which isn't bad, but be aware of when minimalism is too little. the planets are same-y except colors, perhaps pick up some free pixel art trees or similar to add life to the otherwise barren land. [*] review the generation code for planet locations and maybe make them slightly more dense and or less barren patches. [*] make space "coastable" as in let me use an amount of fuel to start flying then not use as much to go far due to space, maybe balance this with a more general oxygen timer resource or something that discourages flying super long distances, but does reward thinking smart about space mechanics. [*] spinning around the planet right after exiting it felt interesting and maybe should be played with more, a bit of a slingshot mechanic or something. [*] maybe a visual indicator of how fast the game views us as going, specifically for landing, some landings that I felt were soft were called hard, which doubling fuel usage temporarily is very punishing. [\list] 4/10 now with reasonable possibilities to improve.