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Edit: Oh wow that's a long comment, enjoy the reading ahah

Hi ! First of all thank you for giving us all this feedback, I'm glad you liked the music (I made it and yeah it sound like it's played in reverse because I thought it would also loosely fit the theme or mirrors :) ), Cahdmus will also be glad that you liked her drawings !

" does how you perform in each mini-game affect how much gold you are given?" -> currently "only" three mini-games influence the price/quality of the mirror : the one where you smash glass, the runes and the cutting (those last two are the ones we spent most time developping so we're glad they were your favorites), we plan to either show a recap after each minigame like you said or when the mirror is finished, giving you a rating and more explanation on the quality of the mirror (eg how you performed in minigames)

the first minigame where you cook the sand and make it into a glass blob is just the introduction, I dont think it will ever have an impact on the score, but the one where you paint the glass will or at least we'll try to make it have an impact.

"I also wasn't sure what the goal of the painting game was." : that's entirely on us, as we've been so much inside our heads that we didnt realize people weren't there with us ahah. Sooo when we started making the game we looked up the process IRL to make mirrors, and well you take a glass sheet and you coat it with reflective material, that's our thought behind this mini-game, I think we'll improve that either by stating that in the game hint, or making it visually more obvious, as for the goal of the minigame, it's to fully paint it and not let anything blank. But I agree that it's both not obvious and maybe not really engaging ? idk

As you might know when you playtest something that you developped, you don't always see the things a "normal" player would see, so for example the fact that you can't erase and try to re-draw the shape is something I personnally haven't thought about and I think it's a great idea. Overall the timing on the mini-games is something we'll have to keep fine-tuning because the time needed varies greatly on the dexterity of the player and with feedback like yours we'll be able to find a sweetspot.

"There was also a small issue where I was retracing one of the swirly symbols and the time ended before I realized and I accidently drew on the next rune where I didn't want to." : yeah this I saw and it happened to me a few times and it pissed me off lol, I'll try to fix it in a way that's not too intrusive, maybe put some cooldown time between the runes, I dont really want to add a button "play" before each rune for example as I think that would be too intrusive but know that it will be fixed in at most a few days. 

Oh and I forgot about the gold : For now it's just an indicator of how well you performed (but we might need to show the calculation to make it more clear as you said) but we also plan to add different kinds of sand for example that would maybe add a special trait to the mirror. 

And to introduce those different materials we're thinking of adding some traveling merchant or maybe a permanent shop to be able to buy those, thus making the gold useful. We have a few ideas for improvements and new features but in 10 days, without any experience with godot before that's the most we could bring to your screens :)

I think I've answered every point you've brought up but if I forgot something or if you have any follow-up questions I'm glad to answer !