If you press (s) you can speed up the gameplay
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Yes, I started using it mid-run, and it definitely helped, but I meant pacing more in terms of flow of gameplay elements and things to do. The second half of my play through was just going mindlessly forward doing a bunch of 5-6x loops to farm enough gold. Once you have your 6-goblin team, it's basically a solved game that still requires farming 5-7k gold before you can win.
Anyway, I understand that in a jam there's very little time to fine tune these values, so it was just a minor flaw in my mind. I still loved the game enough to play to the end! :)