This is a fun idle clicker with relaxing music! I ended up getting a bunch of upgrades to the auto interval and let the happiness rack up while I did chores because manually clicking for so long made my hand tired. I know I haven't gotten to the end yet. I love the concept but for a jam game you want to make the pace a bit quicker, people tend to only spend at most ten minutes with a game.
One small thing I think would make this game a little better is sound effect variation! When a common action is going to be repeated often, I try to have 2 or 3 different variations of the effect play at random. However even if you only have one a nice trick to increase variety is to slightly modify the pitch by a random amount, most tools will let you do this! I like to start at .95 - 1.05 of the pitch and see how that feels for the particular effect and adjust from there. The slight variation helps the player not notice it's the same one or few sounds over and over again and makes the game feel a lot better even if they don't notice it consciously.
Awesome job, I will come back later to see the ending!
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Hi, thanks for playing! Apologies for the manual clicking, it was an oversight on my part. Thank you for all the advice. I use a bit of pitch shifting with the clicking sounds, particularly when you click quickly. There's a combo system the player doesn't see that increases the pitch of clicks the faster they click. I didn't do this for other sound effects though, so definitely useful in those areas.
I hope you enjoy the ending!