Nice job on winning 1st place for graphics and 7th for gameplay. It was a fun, and super cute game. Love the 8bit graphics and the 8 bit graphics icon for the game. Controls were a little difficult at times, like I'd press left, but still be hitting right (could just be my dodgy playing). But it was really fun, and managed to get a couple of levels in. We played it for the GitHub Game Off live stream: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1712466363

I absolutely love this

The look and feel was great!  Consistent style and easy to get into the game play.  I started playing games when the all had this kind of style.  Nice job!

The pixel art looks fantastic! The game is really polished and fun to play. 

My frame-rate did take a dive around 5 mins when  I had a huge spike in number of enemies, and then the game crashed.  It was fun til then!

The game crashed on me the first time I tried to use the Q skill on a full screen of enemies :(

Other than that, it's great! Absolutely love the art style, great animations, the gameplay is fun and gets completely ridiculous when you stack some extra projectiles and repeat attacks, and it's so much fun!

Damn this looks so polished, so many little details, the animation is just BEAUTIFUL. Very consistent mechanics, attacking feels nice. Nailed it!

Thank you for adding a download with java packaged. I couldn't play prior and was beginning to think your "Glutton for Punishment" title was meant to describe actually getting the game to run. 

Your art style and player power fantasy really shine in this game. Once you finally get your upgrades rolling, it feels really good to churn through waves of enemies. Even with a limited palette, you used color well to keep the gameplay pretty readable despite everything happening. That's an achievement in and of itself. Well done :)

Getting to that player fantasy was sort of a pain though. The quota escalations felt too far and the powers felt either way too risky or way too strong. For example, any power that granted +souls and plus spawn rate was mostly a double good instead of a good/bad choice, especially if your damage was good. It felt the only way to die was to have mob speed too high that they can get to you before you can attack. 

But my biggest issue is the controls. Why can you not move while attacking? That feels really bad, especially when you start getting extra attacks and you're not allowed to move until the full animation stops. This made "optimal" gameplay just to stand still as moving would open you up to attacks. You gained slightly fewer souls, but still would get some. Not being to move and attack leads the player to never move unless there's zero risk of being hit. The game felt leagues better after getting the dash. But locking features that make the game play better behind unlocks or progression just doesn't work. If you're game isn't fun or is frustrating from the start, you'll lose a lot of players before they get to the good parts. 

Despite the above gripes, I still really enjoyed mowing through waves of enemies with a big ol windmill of scythes. I think I got a bug after the final skill unlock that caused the game to crash. I used it while attacking and the game force quit (maybe I hit shift+q?) and I lost all progress. Bummer!

Congrats on finishing your game. Keep making games!

When launching it from command line have to make sure the current directory is the folder.
Was pretty fun reminds me a lot of vampire survivors - have to say through I prefer not having to manually activate all of the abilities. The art is great!