Thanks for playing! I took a deep dive into experimenting with shaders so I'm glad you enjoyed the results! I kind of lost sight of the 3-hour time limit and just wanted to explore it as much as I could since I was feeling inspired the 2nd day.

For the custom cursor —I'm not sure if it's a new feature for 4.1, but for me it is found in Project Settings > Display > Mouse Cursor. You can even change it during runtime with this:

var arrow = load("res://custom_arrow.png")
Input.set_custom_mouse_cursor(arrow)

You are correct! the background is a large panning image but the warping effect kind of hides the fact that it's panning and has repeating edges. I'm definitely going to try expanding this world and create some variety of enemy types! Thanks for checking out the demo

Players may choose any snacks they wish haha! 😅

Thanks for playing!