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Thanks for taking the time to write some quality feedback. I for sure agree with you. Here are some thoughts, also to act as a mini post mortem.

- The theme could have been stretched more. My idea was to pace it in a way that a failed jump would make you loose all points and make it a very high game of risk reward in your choice of tricks. But I think to make that work I needed a different game mode or sequence of events to explain that structure and not feel unfairly punishing.

- Yea reaching 10 000 in 5 jumps was something I added quite late, I tried a few different game modes. Freestyle, timed, insta death etc. But I felt it either lacked the satisfaction of reaching a goal or that it removed the opportunity to explore the different combos of the game. I wanted the player to kind of find the different tricks.

- I was worried that my hidden mechanics of many of the tricks would never be discovered since most game jammers play an entry only a couple of minutes. That is why I wanted to hint about tricks in the start screen. For sure not the best place to have it, especially when the web export sometimes made my startscreen crop out things.

- Sprint was something I added early on as I thought that your jump speed should affect the jump height, but that got cut. And yes I should have removed sprint. It was the SFX player I borrowed code for, not the player :)

- Yea there are some combos hidden there. Such as "Smooth candle", "Big pancake", "Backslick", "quadruple frontflip" etc. I think however most players wont find them. Both because of lacking feedback that they exist. And that they are quite hard to pull off. Two ways of solving it could be to have an NPC hint about them, by jumping themselves or have a much higher complete score or in other ways requiring a certain trick at a certain time.

-  This was inspired by the Death diving that was invented in Norway. I think I could have made it even clearer to the player by exaggerating some parts in animations and art to enhance the readability and idea of the game. I think it would also be great to add some other interaction like rotate left, right or something to make it less one dimensional.