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Very charming art style, very cool mechanic. Congrats on this entry, it looks good and it's fun to play! I like the additional level design elements being added as you progress. Maybe add some health pickups for noobs like me? I have yet to finish it, it's pretty challenging!

Good job!

Geminimax5 years ago(+1)

Thanks! The game does get quite difficult, I'm really bad at balancing jam games. I'll release a small balance patch after the rating period ends though.

I don't know if you got that far but I actually took a lot of inspiration( ok, I stole it ) from energy restore lightning animation :P

Bobbi Burrs5 years ago(+1)

Yeah it's hard to balance, after my first game I started leaning more towards the easy side, my thought being: if it's too easy it will maybe less interesting, but if it's too hard it'll be outright frustrating and less accessible to people. Most of them are only gonna invest only a small fraction of the time I playtest it.

I haven't got to the lightning part yet, but I'm glad that was useful!

Geminimax5 years ago

That's a good mindset ! I just really feel the need to squeeze the maximum depth of each feature I make, but without a proper difficulty curve due to the short amount of content, It ends up ramping up too fast. Next jam I think I'll hide the harder parts under a "hard mode" or something like that.

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