Thanks for the feedback and for playing, I love the portal idea! I will definitely have a look at that. Instead of loosing gold on death we had another idea which is in the dialog but we were unable to implement it in time. We wanted players to be able to bet money on how far they make it. If you reach your goal, you get your money back + winnings, if not, you loose what you bet. :)
As for making it easier in the beginning, I agree. We were unable to balance it in time for the submission. We wanted to do sooo much more 😅
I'm very happy to hear that you enjoyed the game loop as well as the dialogs!