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Uplink

By thormoth and TheParticularPixel

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall4823.5033
Fun2723.6133
Innovation7032.8533
Theme4103.7733
Graphics4203.7634
Audio4283.2533
Mood6103.3032

Comments

trav 2026-04-20 09:47

This is a great little game, I love your artwork :) I did want to see where the signal goes to but there are asteroids in the way.

pocketdog 2026-04-21 01:26

Parallax effect is very cool

saloid 2026-04-21 12:11

Really like the clouds over the planet, looks great .artwork is cool overall. Idea is clear and I enjoyed playing :)

2026-04-21 12:22

Looks nice!! Great work

byte-bark 2026-04-21 20:13

Great artwork and fun game to play. Good job!

2inkling 2026-04-22 04:48

Very charming pixel art and I love to see the theme employed in so many aspects of core gameplay!

2026-04-22 08:22

good game overall better if i can see the signals

zpdlf003 2026-04-22 08:28

It was fun aiming. The graphics were good, and the sound was excellent, so I liked it.

winbion 2026-04-22 10:35

It's a nice game, but it lacks dynamics and a variety of upgrade.

jhax 2026-04-22 10:55

Played this for a pretty long time! It's good fun! As others have said, pixel art is brilliant, particularly the planet. I do think the difficulty could maybe ramp up a little bit more, but all good other than that!

3blackpixels 2026-04-22 17:40

Not bad, but needs ingame tutorial

joegreen 2026-04-22 18:16

I'm unstoppable! Cool, complete game. Great work! Снимок экрана — 2026-04-22 в 21.14.56.png

2026-04-23 16:28

looks nice, good work

minus 2026-04-23 16:40

The game seems to be quite fun, artstyle is clean and quite coherent, whole jamming situation is a good idea to execute theme, however in general game really fast becomes repeatetive and after just 5-6 packets sent if you had enough luck to get increased fire rate and reduction of damage you are almost unstoppable. Audio is okay, but music could be a little bit more interesting. Overall quite good game idea, possibly worthy of continuing development and exploring how far you can get it :)

stratcat66 2026-04-23 16:40

There are quite a lot things I like about your game: The feel, the mood, even the sound. Being an unkillable space ship is also fun, but I was really never nowhere near dying and found it a bit too easy (also the pause between the different waves is a bit long for my taste.

Overall a nice entry and as you can see from my image, I played it for quite a while :)

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enver-arco 2026-04-23 16:46

Very fun game! And well done on the enemy AI they would move unpredictably which made they a challenge initially

kkritselis 2026-04-26 00:08

That was fun! I really liked the design and it controlled well. Nice job!

thunderklaus 2026-04-26 09:58

Quite nice! Congratulations on a complete game!

nondev 2026-04-26 13:50

Fun little game! The enemy ships sure are a crack shot, but once I had a little bit of regen they were very manageable. I think ultrawide display messed with the HUD, because I couldn't see the satellite health/signal strength. I do wish there was a bit more variety or more difficulty ramping. It felt pretty rare that I got anything but one enemy ship that fired, the rest were just signal jammers.

Still, I had fun and it felt good. Good job!

tygrak 2026-05-02 19:44

Pretty fun game! The art looks really nice! The gameplay is basically a twist on asteroids, but that's good -- it's a classic for a reason, it's always fun to shoot some things with a spaceship :D. The balance seemed a bit off after a few of the upgrades because I was regenerating more health than the enemies could deal, so it could use some balancing and or more scaling on the enemies but that's fine!

planetary 2026-05-07 19:56

That... was awesome!! I really like it! About the upgrades, I didn't got that deep into the game, but they stack? I mean, I got damage reduction 10% and after another with 20%, so that means I get 30% damage reduction? And if that's the case, what about getting too much damage reduction so you go get 100% and your ship is invincible. Also, consider spawning more and stronger enemies over time in current game, to get competition.

Overall, that was a good game!