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Not quite sure what I did wrong, but every playthrough, I'd destroy the first few asteroids (~3 or 4 of them) and then the game would stop spawning any more. This could've been intended, as a riff on permanence, as you permanently have no more asteroids lol, not sure.

I used Shift to reset 5 or 6 times and the same thing occurred. If I'm just missing something, please let me know, I'd love to give your game a fair shake!

If this doesn't happen to most players, I am that weird dude who actually uses Radeon GPUs which (for some god-forsaken reason) seem to produce completely unique Unity bugs that don't show up on Nvidia systems, so maybe it's just that. Either way, let me know :)

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pk71102 years ago

Thank you for your feedback. You didn't do anything wrong. The game doesn't spawn any new asteroids when the player destroys the first ones. At least not yet. When I wrote the description for the game I wrote something like use Shift for reset. Perhaps I should have used the word replay or something like that. That reset (or replay) is just a quick fix because I didn't have the time to make the game ready.

I would like to mention that in my opinion if the player gets confused by something when playing the game it's not the player's fault. It's a flaw in design. In this case the game is not ready yet. There are many things to add or fix. Right now I don't have the chance to make the game ready but perhaps in a few months time things are different, let's see.

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Hun & Bun2 years ago(+1)

I appreciate that you take criticism in stride, as a dev that’s one of the best skills to have. I’ll give the game another shot, using the replay feature to keep it going. I totally missed that the first time. I blame itch partially for not showing the description of games in any capacity on the jam page and allowing a direct download.
I somewhat agree with your opinion on who’s fault player confusion is generally, but I think there is a certain slack we need to give ourselves in the context of a game jam. Getting a working product up onto itch in time is hard enough, so including a tutorial, or making the controls 100% self explanatory is something we just can’t expect to be in-scope every time. Especially when some non-jam titles are guilty of that. I hope we cross paths again in a future jam, or if you make a full version of this game :)

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