Okay, so first of all, the fact that both of our jam games share "Alchemist's Dawn" in the title is amazing.

So, I wrote my thoughts down while playing your game and then looked at the comments people have left and can see that everyone has already mentioned everything I wrote down, so I'll just list them quick without too much detail.

- Fingers hurt after playing multiple times.

- Accidentally clicked upgrades/new tower before seeing what they were.

- The game seems to be confused where the mouse is on the screen on the upgrade/new tower screen.

- Couldn't see player very well sometimes with so much going on.

- Too difficult too fast. Haven't been able to get to 2 minute mark.

Now, one thing I would like to talk about a little bit is how cool the element clash system is. I didn't even realize what was going on when a couple of them were going off on my first playthrough. Once I realized what was going on I had a ton of fun trying to set up new combinations and watching them go off on enemies. This feature is definitely the star of the show here and I only wish the game wasn't so quick to kill me so I could see more of it.

Good work. Maybe in the future you could add waves of enemies to the game to give the player moments of rest between waves before plunging them back into chaos.

Good luck in the jam and in future endeavors!

Here are my notes I guess:

1. I like the button sounds, but their pivot is not centered, so the scale animation is a bit weird.
2. In godot, go to project settings -> window and under "stretch" set the mode to viewport or canvas. This will make your game work for any resolution.
3. The button hitboxes are quite weird on the skill select panel. Not sure why?
4. You should add a short pause animation whenever you get a new skill to make sure players stop clicking. I selected a skill accidentally way too many times and it basically ruins all strategy I would have.
5. I would really appreciate an "auto-swing" feature, because some people (including me) may have issues with clicking fast for a long period of time. Make the auto-swing the equivalent of 6 CPS, which is pretty average for a player. I'm sorry but it's just not healthy.
6. My best run only managed to survive until 2:30 mins. My fingers and entire right hand now hurts.
7. For sound design I would suggest adding variance in volume and pitch to the hit sounds. Currently they overlap and they are really loud when you hit multiple enemies at the same time. You could also do a panning trick, where sounds are panned to the left or right based on where they play.
8. The player/cursor is a bit hard to see, consider adding an outline to it or something. This is the same for the enemies, but there it's fine as giving outline to all of them would look weird.
9. I can't really say more about this, because I just can't play it for any longer unless I resort to using an autoclicker, which is just cheese.
10. I like the UI and artstyle, it's simple but it fits so that's good.
11. Music is great and also fitting.

Probably a good game, but I just can't play it for long periods of time without needing to use an autoclicker.

Reminds me of old flash games I would play with constant waves of stick men to crush beneath my feet.

The upgrade menu comes up rather quickly and I hit an option unintentionally at least twice.

Great job finishing your first game. I hope you keep making stuff and progressing!

Game is too large for Webgl format. 

The idea is solid! (Played 2 times - is there an end goal? 10 minutes?)

The sword swing animation is very satisfying but its hitbox does not seem to match.
I would work on readability, everything seems like it's was blending with each other, for exampole spell effects could be more vibrant but still very good use of assets.

For the upgrades screen - since whole game is clicking (spam clicking) it would be cool to give player some room for realisation that it is upgrade time, for example fade in the dark screen and add card reveal animation.
Also for the card animations I think the selected one should get bigger, not smaller :P

Overall I really enjoyed so please take all of it as a feedback  for improvements not me being harsh ;)
And would love to see updated version - with click skills!

Great entry!

Great work.

1. The clicking the sword cursor needs to be disabled for a second or even two when the options open as most of the time my next sword click was choosing a powerup before I had even read what they were.  Could it just be a spinning blade on the mouse cursor, then clicking could be used for other things (see points below).

2. Some obstacles on the map and maybe some droppable obstacles would take this up a notch especially to the TD crowd.

3. The defences could also be positionable towers.

4. The feel of the sword strike seemed off, maybe it's me or the trail but a few times I was convinced I had hit the enemy but appeared not to.

5. Or you could take it more RTS with swordsmen and archers that the player can select and command on the map.

this game is excellent, the audio is nice, the visuals are nice and the game play is really fun.

i like the concept, it's a cool blend. im playing on trackpad and i very very quickly started to get rsi, so not sure if i was doing it wrong, but being able to hold LMB to auto attack wouldve worked for me.

Really polished game! Feels very satisfying to play. Only issue I have is one others have pointed out about it being easy to accidentally spam click new abilities.

Genuinely a fun game!

It put me right into the flow state immediately.

With some balancing, I can see a lot of people enjoying this game.

Also, I personally thing the camera was closer to the tower (it's a bit small and hard to see imo)

All in all, you have something fun to develop more on! Keep it up :3

this is a fun concept, but very hard! I feel like I get overwhelmed before I have the chance to establish enough powerups to defend myself. I do like the categories of upgrades you guys conceived though, could be quite fun if balanced + a bit more variety

Really fun game! It was super fun and the elements was really and so was the sword. I wish i could've held down since my hand got tired after a while. Great job!

The visual effects and sound design is really cool and i really liked the different kinds of weapons as well. When i was playing i felt the camera was too zoomed out it was kind of hard to see enemies, also enemies grow in numbers really quickly and they move too fast which makes killing them with mouse without any weapon in the beginning harder. With a little bit of tweaking this would be even better!

quite a cool game it's like a tower defense but almost reversed the game ran pretty well and i don't have the best pc i love the pick you upgrade options and the style only complaint is you can't just hold the attack but that is just me being a little lazy idk tested it twice and with many enemies didn't have any problems with performance