Thank you for participating in the Jam & Toast game jam. Congrats on becoming a finalist as well. I've played your game and wanted to offer some thoughts based on my playthrough that might help you improve the game if you choose to develop it further.
Before that, though, I want to say that I found the game to be fun. I like tile laying games and found this to be a unique experience compared to the other titles in addition to this. I also really appreciated having everything preloaded as a Workshop mod in Steam for TTS. That made my life a lot easier and made me more excited to play the game as a player.
However, there were a few things that would have improved my experience. The first is pretty simple and that's a play example with pictures. I would have loved to have seen a completed board showing how the ant path, how many ants were left, and how final scoring worked based on that image. I was able to figure this stuff out on my own, but an example would still have been appreciated (I had to reread a few things to make sure I wasn't messing up, like how the ants only need a single-die wide tile of space to move).
The other minor issue I encountered had to do with the bonus point food tokens. The contrast on the words and/or numbers on some of the foods made them very difficult to read. The worst offenders are the kiwi and the lemon. Adding a dark outline to the text or something would solve this problem, but I would take the time to update that when the jam is over at a minimum.
Otherwise, like I said, had fun and enjoyed your game. Thank you once again for participating in the jam. Hope you had fun creating this!
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