I appreciate the ideas. Yeah I could transform the tree, but I'm thinking a vertex shader might be easier. Run a sine wave through it and spawn some leaves through a VFX node. The vignette effect is a good idea.
I considered bullet marks, probably with decals, but it just was low priority. I got a lot less time to spend on this jam than the last few I've done, and I had to lower my bar because my lack of progress against past entries I made was depressing me. I talked about that in my devlogs.
Thanks for the thoughts!