General
Alright sadly like the other people I am not able to play the game properly since I do not own a gamepad. So this is based on what I could do / see.
I am also impressed what you were able to make in 8 hours quiet impressive if you ask me!
Gameplay
Like mentioned before I sadly couldn’t test this :(
Theme
No feedback here, I sadly do not know Roikku / LakeDead. However now I am intrigued to look it up! ;D
Art
The art looks lovely. Simple but effective!
UI/UX
Something I wanted to point out is that your start screen looks a bit jammed together (pun intended ;)) You have a lot of colors and things to look at (might be part of your tribute) but if you would haved used a smaller set of colors maybe 1 or 2 colors my eyes wouldn’t be all over the place.
Bug?
Like wormius I had this strange restart loop everytime I was trying to play with my keyboard but it might have to do with the fact it was made for gamepads