So glad you enjoyed the game! Thank quilladile for all the fun acronyms; they did all the fantastic writing.
Addressing the feedback:
- I agree on the platform area being small. We discussed planet size & screen size a lot at the beginning of development. The planet was originally going to be even bigger (96x96), but we put that in the game, quickly saw how big it was and shrunk it down to 64x64. I was hesitant to enlarge the screen size out of concern that too large of a resolution would weaken the game's pixel art style; in retrospect, that was probably unfounded.
- The lore text is quite small, yeah. It uses its own font because the other "small text" font we were using throughout the game (at01) didn't have quotation marks, so I quickly had to find a font that did and which I thought looked good. Probably should've put more thought into readability though.
- This I also agree on. Lots of comments have brought it up, and yeah, we should've playtested more and adjusted things like planet upgrade costs at least during the editing period.
Thanks for the criticism, and thanks again for playing!