What a review, thank you so much! 19 periods to be rank 1 is a really great!
Thanks for all the feedback, I’m taking notes and I’ll fix things after the jam (good catch about the level cap, but I think it might just be a display bug!).
Actually, I was working alone on the project, even if I got a lot of help from GPT-4o, to learn the right structure to use, debug (there were a lot of bugs), and create images (then I edited/touched them up in Figma/Photopea). Music artists are credited in the description ;)
As for the "confidants", I wrote the text myself and then got help correcting it, because my English is pretty simple. I wanted to make the relationship deeper in the game but time was against me!
Thanks for the suggestion about multiplayer! I think I’d need to make the game a bit more complex first, because right now it’s pretty simple and it could get boring over time (I simplified it a lot for the jam and for debug issues).
For the UI, I used the official React + Phaser template: React handles the interface, and Phaser only takes care of scenes and game logic (https://github.com/phaserjs/template-react).