Nice work. This is a really clean and well executed entry. Everything felt cohesive from the visuals to the sound, and it all fit the tiny world theme well. Controls were simple but worked great, and the dash mechanic was a nice touch. I liked the sound effects, especially the squishy ones.. very effective and added a lot. Could be good to make it more obvious you need to eat the pellets, but once I figured that out it was fine. Gets pretty tough after a while but definitely addictive. A solid project and very polished for a jam game.
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Thanks for playing Tim, and for your thoughtful feedback!
Decided to go with a color palette from colorhunt.co this time for the visuals and I'm glad I did. I'm not an artist by any shot, so having something pre-curated was helpful. I was lucky to find open license audio assets that matched the art style and theme of the game.
You're absolutely right about the salience of the pellets. The "instructions" "eat-me" and "avoid-me" were shown on the main menu, but only briefly if the user clicked play game straight away. Could have been a visual indicator at game start to show it, since the initial pellets were statically spawned.
Thank you for your kind words!