Heyyyyyy!
Thanks so much for playing it! I didn't have as much time this jam to develop and playtest as I have been overseas sadly! However your feedback is still valuable. In hindsight I would've made the upgrades a lot more powerful and more automation would have worked well for the rebirth/new game plus mechanic which would have worked well with a Rebirth currency of some sort.
Haha, glad you liked the news reports - seems a lot of people liked them and I enjoyed writing them a lot too~