Please dear god yes
A phenomenal start to a promising project! This is basically one of the directions I wish that Body Heat gamejam game would have gone with further development. I love this kind of thing!
The main issues at the moment seem fairly obvious and seem to have been already acknowledged in the comments, so I'll just throw my 2 cents in as far as that's concerned: the reactor mechanic would be fine if the maximum or median speed the meters could fill up were human-manageable. As it is, you can barely move the bars without the fill rate being unmanageably high. I do question the gameplay-thematic harmony of including the mechanic to begin with, but there's certainly a way to implement it without having it be obtrusive. The default text speed is too fast while having it auto-clear, but at least there are settings for both of those.
Looking forward to more features being implemented and content being added! I'd like to see a cork/plug item that you can carry and move between holes to assist with hole management. I'd also like to have an easier way to do in-only than blocking with one hand and inserting one-at-a-time with another. I also saw an x-ray mechanic asked for in the comments and I'd like to second that notion. Whatever is added, though, I'll be there for!
Bug-wise, some of the brown creatures seem to not be able to activate/move - unless they're like, bread or something lol. There are some visual defects when bending over to pick something up or put something down. Creatures can somehow manage to escape the level boundaries, I'll put a screenshot in a comment. The "exit" button doesn't seem to work for me.
Overall hugely excited for this, thank you so much for making this!
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