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Good job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1206320,"author_name":"Entink","author_uid":"entink","epoch":1776880233,"text":"I really like the vibe that is coming from this game, even that i didn't know what to do at first i had fun. Great job!!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1206666,"author_name":"sodaman","author_uid":"sodaman","epoch":1776884627,"text":"Was a little confusing at the start but when I figured out the controls it was fun building my signal's path while placing some shields, nice!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1207174,"author_name":"Prismapunch","author_uid":"prismapunch","epoch":1776890917,"text":"Quite interesting I liked the progressive nature of it and connecting nodes. The graphics were a bit confusing at first with the circles and squares looking very similar between regular nodes and shields. Once you hit a spider it was pretty intuitive though. 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