God I wish so much that spinning gave the player more control and feedback on the direction and speed. It's really enjoyable to hit the correct country in one go, but I found it difficult and finicky to use, which undermined how much fun I could have. There's also an element of RNG luck that's needed to get a high score, with both in your next target being close to where you are and with how large the target is (e.g. hitting India is infinitely easier than hitting Bhutan), maybe a greater hitbox for small targets would be nice to give the player allowance. This could be so so fun (at least coming in with geography knowledge, I'd imagine this might be impossible for players who don't know where Tajikistan is, maybe a hot/cold or distance metric would be nice too), I just really wished the player had more agency (or given information to learn how to control better) over the spinning. Got a high score of 7268500
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Thanks for playing, and for the thorough and constructive feedback. I can’t disagree with any of it - especially the lack of feedback on control and the fiddliness of short jumps. That and having some highlight for the target country were both things I’d like to have worked on more but couldn’t fit into the time I was able to find around family and work.
Congrats on the score! Comfortably top of the leaderboard.