had too much fun with this one. incredible. my type of game
my boy...

| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #957 | 3.789 | 3.789 |
| Overall | #971 | 3.673 | 3.673 |
| Style | #1070 | 3.842 | 3.842 |
| Enjoyment | #1392 | 3.386 | 3.386 |
Ranked from 57 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
In AstroBuilder, you build your spaceship bigger using scaled versions of tiles, while trying to survive the endless growing sea of space junk.
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had too much fun with this one. incredible. my type of game
my boy...

So, I started a while ago...and my game is still going, just going to let it run until the end of the jam and see if I end up on top of the leaderboard, lol.
I like the idea, and it's very chaotic and fun at the start. It doesn't really have much to offer after a little while, though. However, that's okay for a jam game. My one major complaint is the fact that the camera is too tight and doesn't expand reasonably as you build onto the ship. I feel like that's easily fixed, It was a great game and a solid submission for the jam!
We are aware that the game doesn’t get harder over time, rather as you build your ship. This was an oversight that we will correct soon. As for the camera, we didn’t have much time to ensure it worked correctly, so we just figured it was good enough. We also have a fix for that coming. Thank you for playing!
The idea and art are really great and well-executed, enjoyed it! It would be good if the camera was more zoomed out a bit more or there was more garbage. Also for future some kind of military mode (how to say that lol) with enemies would be fun. I really like the games where you start with some small fort/spaceship/car/machine and you upgrade it until it's massive, but haven't seen many of them. This one was really cool! Thanks for creating this!
Thanks for submitting this to the stream! The art is fantastic great and the concept is neat. I just wish I had more time to play it or could've progressed a bit faster to build a really big ship.
But overall, good job!
Love the artstyle and the game feels very complete! I would love a zoom out function, to dodge but also find scrap.
Sweet game bro ! I thought it had a fun gameplay loop. Reminded me of the game "Out There" (which everyone should play !)
I'd say that it never felt that useful to make some of the units (eg thrusters) espeically the big version. I was quite scared of going fast in this game anyways so I never thought it useful for them to be big
I had a lot of fun playing your game. My only real complain is I wish I could see just a little bit more of the screen. My grabbers near the top were basically hanging off the edge, but I could see a lot to the sides.
Yay! Another building game in space, I can't get enough of these bad piggies type games and this jam as given me hours of these to enjoy. This is easily the most polished example I've played, superb job!
It’s a fun spaceship builder, and the scrap collection mechanic definitely distinguishes it from the similar ship builders I’ve seen this jam.
I was quite lost for most of my time. It felt that once I can regain fuel faster than I consume it, there is nothing more to do. Progression should be communicated more clearer to the player, because for example me not being able to pick up hotdog stand felt like a bug.
Another side of this is that progression just suddenly switched to more expensive items and I didn’t see a way to get back. At that point I was messing around and list half of my ship, so I was basically softlocked from buying anything.
I also wish camera was more zoomed out, sometimes stuff flies at you too suddenly.
Overall, it is a pretty interesting game, good job!
First off, if you got to the point where you could create fuel faster than you were using it, but still didn’t have a tier two grabber, it means you kind of missed the main mechanic. This is partially because the game isn’t fully balanced.
As for progression being in massive jumps, our mistake was squaring the prices as if you were building 9 tiles when you build a 3x3.
Thank you for playing and leaving feedback! We will push an update after the voting period.
This is an awesome idea. I also love how when a piece of your ship detaches, you can collect it at scrap. The biggest item I bought was the x2 grabber but I had trouble expanding cause I couldn't find enough junk. Idk if it exists, but having larger junk which requires larger grabbers would be a great edition. It also allows for exponential growth since getting huge ship parts doesn't seem that practical currently. Awesome job!
Very cool idea! Music and art are on point and the gameplay is fun! I'm not sure about the highscores being about time survived, because I think I could have survived for weeks by not moving at all ^^'
Overall I really like it!
I'm a simple man I see a high score and I need to get it.
This game was fun - I didn't realise the scaling mechanic till about 20 mins in......
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I would play more of this game - just need more depth and challenge
Really fantastic job!

Good atmosphere and beautifully implemented gameplay, but it should have started easier and had a training mode. Good job.
Fantastic work, quite challenging and very fun! Managed to stay alive for quite a while, and it was fun experimenting with building the ship!
I did find that removing tiles had unintended consequences, such as removing several connected pieces, and the zoom seemed a bit restrictive at times, but on the whole it was really enjoyable!
Not to mention, the music really fit the feel of the game!
We discovered that breaking tiles not on the edge of your ship did this like 5 minutes after the submission period ended. The zoom code can be a little buggy about how much it will zoom out too. You can sometimes fix this by trying to build your ship in a shape as far from a square as possible. Thanks for playing!
Really fun concept! At first I zoomed through the space and died instantly, but on the second run everything made sense and the concept was quite fun. Good stuff :)
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