Congrats on completing the jam! This is a fun little game!
The art was clear on the enemies, bullets and different machines you could use. I think that the pixel art could be improved by avoiding pillow shading on most of the assets. The music was good and I liked the different BGM per run. Themeing we nice ;) I liked the could, bit and byte jokes.
Unfortunately I don't quite get the pickle rick joke. I am old.
Other areas that could be improved:
- The alt key being used for the tank is awkward with the wasd controls. One hand is on the mouse and the other is on WASD. Alt cannot be pressed without moving the hand strangely and giving up the S key. Would recommend moving to the CTRL key instead.
- It was hard to find the Pickles and my time as a robot came to an end before I could find them. Would be nice to have an indicator off screen for pickles when in robot mode and robots when not in robot mode.
- It would be nice if being in the tank healed you. Right now when you lose health you can't regain it.
- Robots fire the bullets but as you approach them you tend to get shot so it's quite dangerous to do so. Would be nice if if you were in range they would stop shooting.
- Pickles themselves as enemies don't actually do anything - could just wait them out. Maybe they should do pulsating ring blasts every once and a while so you don't want them to have a bunch spawned?
- I think the spawn speed for the pickles could be increased
Otherwise great job!