I had a lot of fun with this game! I think the core loop is simple but compelling and there's a lot of potential here. Nice job!

Great submission! My high score was 4797, and this game really sucked me in! I really like the way you used the coin for everything. Balancing between buying a shield and shooting enemies was a good trade off. The only nitpick I have is I wish the max hp were displayed somewhere so the player can know how much healing they'll get.

I think you're nailing the finding a fun core mechanic vibes here! I was trying to play some of the game jam submission while double tasking and catching up on shows. TOTALLY MISSED EVERTHING, and just lost myself in this game play lmao, great job. I had a lot of fun with this one!

Reminded me of one of those mobile game ads (in a good way). Ended up putting most of my points into movement just so I could get the coins. Pretty fun little loop and a great entry!

I got 6545!

I couldn't find any audio settings sadly :(. If the health show how much my hp/maxhp it would have helped me choose to heal or max health. I could not really tell the difference between increasing movement.

Other than that you have very nice visuals! liked the U.I.  Loved the square trees and enemies came at me had great models. When things got really hard I found myself relying on your sound effects to keep going. You did amazing!

I had fun with this!! I got to level 12 and enjoyed the feeling of increasingly getting stronger, faster, and tankier. I thought this was a really chill game and enjoyed playing :)

Nice game loop, it's simple but fun and addicting. I just couldn't stop playing and reached 18 level. 

Visuals are nice, throwing coins is cool approach to "spending" them :D

There was issue with sound not looping after while of playing

Congratulations on your first submission!

This was a fun little game. The single resource worked well. Initially I was trying to shoot every enemy, until I realized I was not gaining anything from them. Then I reversed course and just tried to avoid all of them. I was so focused on movement, I forgot about the shield and had built up a lot of unused coins when I died. That run reached level 14 or 15. I didn't remember if I'd leveled up since last looking and the game over covers the level. I would move the game over down a bit so you can see your final level. My score was a bit over 4100. I only realized I should have been using the shield after losing, so I retried with the same strategy, except always keeping the shield up. I found that the shield is wider than you are and would get hit when you could have evaded with no damage, especially when squeezing along the edges, so that did require a bit more planing of my route. I managed to get to level 28 and a score of 5866 on that run. I don't think I fired a single shot in it. My level up started by focusing on movement then max HP and occasional heals. My final max HP was around 15.

I think the coin pickup collisions could be a bit more in the player's favor. I often missed a coin I thought I should have gotten. I think the camera angle was messing with my judgement a bit. On the other hand, the narrow collision area was in the player's favor for avoiding enemies.

With most of the game relying on keyboard for movement, it would be nice if the upgrade inputs did as well. Late game it was a bit jarring going when you leveled up, and then as soon as you clicked you had to go back to dodging with the keyboard.

Overall, a good jam submission.

Love the utilization of one resource - the coins. Would like to see the arcade vibe cranked to 11