Super fun little puzzler! funny thing about your particles not working. I don't think it takes to much away from the game. In some ways I think it saves it because your particles look like they scale down and fade out in the gifs you have attached. For the theme of this jam I would have handled the particles slightly differently
You would want pixel squares that blast out in the same way, but just pop out of the screen and not alpha fade out. You could time each pixel to disappear at whatever timing you want and almost keep the same effect. However it will fit better with that :retro game explosion. at the same time you don't want your pixel dust/effect to scale at all. that breaks the whole point of 160x144 challenge in some ways. and lastly by fading them out, your introducing more then 4bit colors. because your blending black to nothing.
I almost ended up doing the same thing for my particles but ended up making them so they dont scale and just pop off the screen.
Great job!
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