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Aaw thank you so much!
So glad you like the art, means a lot! Tried a new animation method here, which ballooned the size though and almost made it non web playable.
The difficulty gets a bit more passable with practice, just forgot it's quite a lot to ask for a small jam game with not much content and ramp up. Thank you for powering trough!
The coal thing is entirely possible I think. There is a wave of coal every 20s on the last level of the first phase. But the presents have a chance to spawn as a coal in addition to a separate coal spawn. So if rng is really bad, it's possible to get a coal spam. If I update this, will probably remove the random spawns and keep only the separate coal spawns to reduce frustration. Will probably also reduce the hitbox on the coals.
Thank you for a thorough and positive feedback, made my day.
It's definitely a struggle at first hehe, but once you start to get stuff working it's really fun. I don't know what your area of expertise is, but if coding is overwhelming you, I really enjoyed Construct 2 as a first step to toy around. Don't know if it scales that well though, never bought the full version, but for little experiments it was pretty cool. Construct 3 free was a unfortunately bit more limiting if I remember correctly.
Hope you keep at it and I get to see a project from you some day!