How much time was taken?
We went 30 minutes over on build 2 and we didn't quite make up the time for build 3. We wanted to spend some extra time to add sound fx, UI, and juice up the game a little bit so we made a 4th build.

Build 1 - 3 hours (it's not win-able or lose-able, you can just run around)
Build 2 - 6.5 hours (it's also not win-able, but there is some of the dueling system working)
Build 3 - 9.5 hours (playable version)
Build 4 [the build on the game page] - 12 hours (added juice)

Use of theme?
We wanted to use a little bit of each theme, but not much got finished in the final version.

Chain Reaction: In the dueling, we wanted to create chains of actions: attack -> parry -> counter attack. This is kind of in the game, but you can't chain together multiple attacks or parries.

Negative Feedback Loop: Our idea was that when you died, your corpse would become a new enemy adding to the difficulty, but this didn't get implemented, currently each 'run' gets a fresh forest.

Novel Twist on a Classic Game: Our initial pitch was inspired by games that are 'classics' to us namely: Link's Awakening, DayZ, DarkSouls, and Absolver. The final game is a sort of combination of these in a more retro-arcade style.

Use of diversifiers?
- Procedurally-generated - the forest is randomly generated from tiles
- Multiple input keys - WASD, IJKL, Arrow Keys

Did you have fun?