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Signal Singularities

By drsmey, Noctiluca and Tyrrer

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1693.9223
Fun3783.4421
Innovation1143.9022
Theme2514.0221
Graphics2284.1222
Audio2133.7821
Humor2933.1620
Mood3193.8022

Comments

toshiy 2026-04-21 08:30

very stylish! the level of polishing and gameplay is commendable! thank you for the experience!

drsmey 2026-04-21 11:19

@toshiy You're welcome and thank you. We intentionally kept the scope very manageable to focus a lot of effort on polish <3

orjan 2026-04-21 17:19

This game blew my mind a little bit. Actually my favourite game of the jam so far. Kudos to the team who made tis!

the-stage-hand 2026-04-21 17:31

Very good, both with gameplay and graphics!

teddyreid 2026-04-21 17:40

Torn between 5 stars for a great concept or 1 star for the fucking UWU node 😂

Jokes aside, I absolutely love this. There are tons of games this jam that are some variation on "decode a signal" but very few of them, so far, are as interesting as this.

Took me a minute or two to work out what was actually being asked of me - maybe some kind of tutorial that describes what each node does would be good, but then again, maybe not, the discovery is highly compelling - but once it clicked I had a huge shit-eating grin on my face for the rest of my play time.

UI and UX all really good, enjoy the exploding menu panel a lot. Sound all good.

The ability to pan around and have more nodes would be good. I dunno if I'm just shit at the game but later in my play session I ended up juggling lots of nodes - looked like one of those software packages that let's you wire synths together!

Great job. Think this will be my favourite game this jam.

drsmey 2026-04-21 17:51

@teddyreid Thanks a lot. Yea a lot of your points of improvement are extremely valid. It becomes very cluttered very fast and its a little jank to organize everything in so little space. But if that's the only thing that ends up being a bother to people the I'm fine with it^^

Glad you enjoyed your time <3

kremlebot 2026-04-21 19:22

Cool work, but after a three-day jam it's hard to play such games.

drsmey 2026-04-21 19:47

@kremlebot Very relatable^^

majomirez 2026-04-21 21:35

Interesting idea! Maybe the controls are too sensitive to me, it was hard to move the slide to the exact position. The art and its palette colors are super cute

drsmey 2026-04-21 22:00

@majomirez Thank you! The controls should be easier in fullscreen, and if that doesn't help you can also use the scroll wheel ;)

rubatotree 2026-04-22 03:11

I love the animations and audios when doing some interact with the modules, they are so juicy! And the sci-fi pixel arts are really to my taste. I like this vibe so much ! :purple_heart: :sparkles:

gat 2026-04-22 22:39

The art and music are very good, I was a little confused about what to do, but I was impressed by the scope and ambition.

squimmy 2026-04-23 02:29

I really enjoyed this. I keep getting stuck and then leaving it for a while and coming back to try again. Is there a win-screen or does the complexity just keep ramping up indefinitely?

I also thought the polish was great. the effect when destroying a node is particularly fun.

jerrywest 2026-04-23 04:11

It took me some time to figure out how to play. After understanding the gameplay, I found the process of building circuits to decode very interesting. What a cool idea! However, as a non-native English speaker, understanding their sentence is quite challenging for me. Maybe some hints could be given when players get stuck to tell them what the correct answer is? Even following the answer to decode still poses a challenge. I got to the third level, "I'm a total trash mammal and nothing is ever going to work out." I felt a great sense of achievement when I decoded it! But the next level's puzzle totally blew my mind, lol.

sledzik 2026-04-24 01:06

intersting entry. I realy like the sprites of the components and the music is fun

jacky-san 2026-04-27 16:01

Wow, incredible entry ! Very nice game :clap: :pray:

le-don 2026-04-29 15:37

Great game! The idea and the polish are amazing. There could be some improvements about the handling - sometimes I would grab something not intended and it also seems removing one item in the middle of a chain reset or remove some of the adjusted values. Maybe some kind of silhouette around the item that is about to be grabbed might be helpful. Also a small tutorial or some explanations for the items might be also helpful, as I am still not sure what all of them did.

But again, this game is great and one of my favorites so far. I think I got to complexity 4 and had to deal with two encodings in a row, which got too hard to solve for me.

juanrod707 2026-04-29 16:03

Amazing game, kept me playing for more than an hour. I think some of the puzzle checks are bugged out because I clearly had the right message at the end (complexity 4) but it wouldn't validate.

Overall, amazing game!

alexanrd 2026-04-29 16:24

Cool visuals and music, a bit hard to understand what to do at the beginning