Spacethumper 2

nice gameplay. But I can’t leave the cave. idk where use Teleporter hub.

Hell yeah, v1.0!

My day started crappy and this made it way better. It's appreciated~

glad to see how the game develop 0w0!!

It is time

V1.0 is real!!!!!!

Time to learn what has changed.

Why does it say 1.0.0? Well, I've got nothing else to do today at the moment, so here we go.

Awesome game 

It took me a while to get out of the caves since the last disruptor was way up and you had to place the lift exactly at the right place to get to it (an awesome commenter made a map which helped me haha). Finished the game later too, (2,40 hours of playtime)

Its just a bit hard to cramp every defense together with the right power, that's where I got an Idea on how to make it better! What if you could connect the energy accumulators together to make a crude "power-line"? I think that would be great! 

Also, I think it would be neat to add an immobility option which can be ticked on or off where if you surpass your maximum you can just dump the power (hold w) to get walking again!

I hope we get to see these characters again in another game in the same universe once this is finished.  Still, what's here is very fun, but it can be very punishing with how much the odds are stacked against you from the beginning due to the landscape.

I dunno if i already made a comment but very fun game and a really damn fun one. Like, the actual mechanics are increadibly interesting. If it wasnt that this was a fetish game, id reccomend it to more of my friends. Hasnt exactly stopped me from recommending to a few select friends though. Cant wait to see it in a 'finished' state.
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Hope whoever reads this has a good day/night/afternoon/whatever, AND that tomorrow is even better

Pretty fun little game. I wish automating crystal power were possible, especially when you're forced to use it in a certain part of the game (which I cheated through rather than spend hours and hours trying to build up while slime rains down on you uncontrollably). Definitely lost steam once I was just sitting in a battery charging spot unlocking items. I liked the music, the characters and dialogue was entertaining, and dealing with the more frequent waves at the very end of the game was interesting.

Love so much!!!

Ideas you are free to ignore:

Save control settings

Make slimes attack player, forcefeeding their biomass (this would also provide an option making early game/hard wipe better to get some starting energy) (maybe they absorb the dirt blown onto them for nutrients!)

The energy accumulator made me wonder about chaining power lines late game.

'v'

gonna play this in wine on my linux compter! :D

I wonder, would it be possible that in the future there will be more variants in the music?

I feel that the cave part would benefit the most from an extra variant 

You know what, we need some kind of hardlight bridge platform thing that has to be powered that bridges from one side to another and energy cost scales based on distance.  Yes this idea came because of how much of a chore the overhang is to combat and control. Though this would mean the device can be powered only on one side and nothing can be placed on the platforms. Being a sort of semi platform like the elevator. Though this would ironically be easily exploitable since again, slime AI is weird and they tend to get easily confused with the vertical nature of the game. 

I'm also wondering if it's possible to move the crystal condenser up the tech tree as it is very strong in my opinion and neutralizes the need for drills. Like... Laughably so. Why use a drill if I can just have this box that draws in crystals like a vacuum? Though the downside is the fact it has to be higher to be more efficient, which again... WIND TURBINES. Cheap and easy with reactors being costly, very large and overall terrible for basic defenses. Like the basic reactors are two units large, with the last one being three units. 

Okay, I've encountered a few issues. 

So on the upside I figured out that the Gauss cannon has a very long range in comparison to the laser. Enough to make me actually use it. So, that's nice. Still, doesn't mean I won't be using the Laser. 

My first issue stems from the flag for having the planet teleporter. If you, like me, destroyed your radio and saved afterwards, you have to do it all over again. 

Likewise, the amount of enemy spawns in hard mode gets absolutely absurd. I mean like, caused a crash absurd. There doesn't really seem to be a system in place that removes idle slimes so they end up just... Stacking and eventually causing memory issues as well as impossible scenarios to survive. 

The last thing I saw before my game crashed was a line of purple slimes floating towards me before the game decided to crash on a pause. 

So, no, I'm not complaining about the gap because I'm lazy, I'm complaining because of how bogged the game gets because of the slimes falling from the gap. Though all things considered I just really hope that there's a workaround. So I technically finished hard mode, but the game said no. 

For now I'm going to try to get back to where I was and try to not lose my mind. I love this game and I want to get to the end, but man is hard mode brutal. I might actually downgrade to normal mode just to get a bit of an easier experience. 

Likely easy, because I at least want to try to get some strategies down for when I replay the game.

Finally finished the radio... 

Only to learn I have to make a planet to planet teleporter. 

At least I have time to prep for it.

Taking a break for the moment since my save is closing in on the fifth hour and I want to figure out how to set up an energy accumulator so I can attempt to max out the energy of all the crew mates before teleporting.

I'll give my thoughts about the current build of the game.

The difficulty in hard is really brutal and I love it for how much of a challenge it is. Yet many buildings feel like fodder. 

First is, you don't need to guess, it is everything but the Energy laser for defense. The defensive structures are great until you try anything other than the laser in which case they're kinda middling. Especially combined with the ability to have multilayered structures and wind turbines. The Laser just has really good and consistent damage. 

In my honest opinion the teleporter is the second most useless thing in the game due to it really being just able to teleport to one location. 

The most useless being the drills.

Yes, the drills.

Because your laser is practically made for mining and mining only. The miner the most useful party member and the engineer being ironically the most useless later down the line. The pilot being the builder in mass, pun intended, due to having a much larger hitbox for providing energy to multiple structures at once.

Besides, you can mine crystals with the laser before getting crystal mining for the mining drills. Sure it's slow, but you have Dax for a reason. His mining laser makes gathering resources quite trivial. 

As for some structures that might require some adjustments/special one of a kind structures, I think there should be changes to make the Solar Panel more viable like having it be cheaper. Of course, wind turbines really shine with energy accumulators. Get enough of them and you can generate even more energy.

The only issue is the height check is a circle radius for power amplifiers. So next to the overhang it loses quite a bit of energy. 

As for a solution to getting to the other side of overhangs, there should be like bridges that can be held up, but have to be used specifically between two overhangs. 

I love what the game has so far. 

If I remember correctly, there's a version in the comments where you eat the slime instead 

In a sense I see why tourist mode won't be added, since there is so much more content based on defense, It's still sort of annoying but I think enough people annoy you about it. It would be cool if there was a way to see when the slimes will attack next though.