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This game certainly starts off on the right paw - you've got space, you've got cats, and you've got tactics. The graphics are good - colorful enough to match the lighthearted dialogue, serious enough to match the tactical gameplay. Soundtrack gets the job done. Storyline... well, there really isn't much storyline to speak of in this short demo, but you've got your basic mysterious ship + mysterious artifacts + dysfunctional crew, so it seems like it *could* be good, at least. The potential is there. Dialogue is... adequate. I like corny puns as much as the next guy, but that only gets you so far. I would be interested to see a professional writer brought on board to punch up the dialogue and help make sure the story is compelling. The good news is that the core gameplay is rock-solid. It's obvious that a lot of thought went into this, and some good decisions were made (like "engines still work if there's no one in the engine room, just not as fast" and "moving crew to a different room takes a flat 1 action point, so you don't have to worry about accidentally clicking one pixel too far and taking extra time or whatever".) Usually a demo just tells you how a game *might* be fun; this one is *already* fun - I really enjoyed the calculations of where to place my crew members each turn for the best results as we're flying around shooting at things. I guess my chief concern, then, is not knowing what's planned for the development process. The game is still pretty buggy and not ready for beta testing IMO, but I see that a release date 6 months out has been announced and I saw it advertised on FB. I know that these days building a bunch of hype so that everyone buys the game all at once on release day is key to getting noticed, so there isn't as much time to let word of mouth spread - but I wonder if this is going to be more of a Blizzard-style "we'll release it when it's done and not before" situation, or if (as seems to be more common these days) the "version 1.0" is really going to be more like beta testing, and the game won't actually be *good* until months after release with a lot of patching. In conclusion: the core concept, and the execution of the core concept, are both really solid, but it needs some TLC around the edges. I hope this game gets the polish it deserves to be a hall-of-famer.

Hi there, The translation of 3D objects into the 2D combat grid seems to work very well for asteroids and smaller ships... but comes out *really* weird when you're talking about the Nautika. 1. The Turret juts out significantly further into the grid than it does visually, including strange "arms". 2. The Hangar also sticks out, but in a triangle pattern that at least looks somewhat reasonable, and conveys the idea that maybe you can hit such a large object from further away than your usual range? So this is a little peculiar but OK, I guess. 3. The Engine, however... First of all, the box that you can mouseover is way at the edge of the grid, making it difficult to even maneuver the camera into a position where you can see how many hull points it has. Second, the red boxes for hitting it extend way past where it ends visually, including some places where you can hit it with a missile, but trying to use the regular gun does zero damage. (But when I went closer - past what should have been the edge of it - I was able to hit it with the gun OK.) Thirdly, the fact that the camera automatically follows enemy ships (normally a good thing or at least neutral) puts it in a SUPER weird position every turn, clipped inside of the engine housing, and you have to zoom way out and then pan way over to get back to where the rest of the ships are. (It also reveals that the rocket exhaust graphics coming out of the back of the engine stop abruptly once you're inside it, which is a pretty normal way to do graphics to save on resources rendering things the player usually can't see anyway, but it does reinforce that that's not really a good place for the camera to be, and particularly not a good place for the camera to be forced by the AI at the end of every turn.)

The quest tracker for the scene when you get to the Crossroads says something like this: Disable the Nautika * Disable the Engines * Disable the Hangar * Optional: Disable the Turret Yet when I disable the Turret, everything else goes away as if I'd completed the whole quest, which doesn't make sense.