Glad to hear you enjoyed it! It's a hard balance to find the right difficulty, especially in a game jam setting where people may be playing games out of their usual style and also with us not having time to add something like a tutorial.
Max's art style always blows me away!
We definitely had plans to add more kinds of upgrades that would stick more things and mechanics to the ship but had to cut back when a lot of the initial setup took longer than we'd hoped.
Super glad the challenge left you craving more! I still can't quite reach the kraken every time and I spent hours balancing the dang thing, but I do feel like it's always rewarding when you get there and am excited for you to experience that high too! :D