Wow, such a valuable criticism. Regarding the 2 resources: when you run out of CTRL turns, you don't die, and if you still gain more 'ctrl' from papers, you will be able to move again. So, the idea was that you can take an additional step and still survive if you managed to make a good plan. Although, maybe that's what you meant by "usually," and I can understand where you are coming from.
Also, about holding the control button. When you are holding CTRL, I wanted the time to slow down, as well as allow to change the direction. But I didn't like the final result too as much as I want. Do you think it can be solved if I allow the player to move immediately with the "arrow keys"? And if he wants to, the player can still hold ctrl for a slow down effect?
I'm truly glad you mentioned all these things in a great detail, I truly appreciate all your thoughts. Since I considered to finish the game properly after the jam, your comments will definitely help. Thank you, I'll try to make the game juicer :)
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Glad I could help. Regarding your idea, this sounds like a very interesting thing to test. Having the Ctrl key slow down time in a game that's truly hectic but having limited amount of slow down sounds really fun! However the only way to know is to test. In my experience game design is 99% playtesting and 1% ideas. I encourage you to try this, it's great exercise and you already have a pretty solid mechanism to work on.