Didn't see much of a link between the topic and the game. Had some performance issues and lagginess. Was unclear what drained my battery initially.

But the criticisms end there and gawd dammmn is this a wonderful game. It looks stunning, the lighting and animations are simply wonderful. The gameplay loop is wonderful because it just feels so good to explore the landscape. THe controls were so brilliant i didn't think about them once (which really is a massive compliment to say they were just that intuititve). The sound design and audio, whilst not all that complex, put me exactly in the right mood.

This is truly a wonderful game. PLEASE make it into something bigger. Also I bellieve you will do very well in this jam :D

Hi! I've put together a list of my top games from the jam and before I post them on the community section, I'm just checking that you are okay having your game's link on the list?

I think the game sunburned my pc

This is undoubtedly my favorite game in the entire jam! Unfortunately it doesn't  meet the topic requirements I'm looking for... I'll explain later.

The visuals are stunning. The minimalist details fit very well together, and the color choices for the terrain and ore are perfect.

The game is simple and is not overly complicated. I had a perfect understanding how everything worked. (although I am looking at the screenshots and I just found out apparently you could create terrain with the laser, don't know how I missed that) I understand some people didn't know that the sunlight hurt them but it was immediately obvious to me. The name of the game is called Sunburn after all.

You did a great job creating a sense of becoming more powerful the more you played, and you had objectives that made me want to finish and complete them.  The game with the mining and ore collecting does get a little repetitive but I was still hooked. I played for an 15 extra minutes even after I finished everything. My only complaint was that after I did everything I wanted more, but sadly every journey must come to an end.

The music and sound is great. It's a bit on the quiet end, but I don't mind. Maybe it is missing a few sound effects here and their but maybe that is a good thing because otherwise it would have been overwhelming and may have distracted from the experience.

Now lets talk about the topic requirements. I understand that many people have a different interpretation of what it means "Failure is Progress," the majority of people thought it meant keep dying and get stronger or gain more knowledge, etc... other people kept on the surface level and took a story approach to it. In your case, you chose the former. The problem with that is that I've seen it too much, so it's not really that original and it doesn't make it stand out from the rest.

With that being said, there are games I gave higher ratings than this, but this is still my favorite game in the jam because it's so engaging and doesn't frustrate me at all. Out of every game I have played so far, this is the one I really want to this made into a full game that I can sink hours into playing and pay money for.

Wow this game is very impressive! I love the graphics and how you did the destructible terrain. A lot of games would go the minecraft route but I like how you did it with those triangle shapes. It was pretty fun mining around and getting orbs. I have a few nitpicks with this is game that were related to communication to the player:

- It was never really clear why my battery was going down, I thought it may be because of me using my laser, or moving, but I never would have guessed it was being in the sun unless I looked at the comments. I didn't even realize there was shadows in this game, so if you want to keep that as a mechanic you need to make the shadows much more pronounces and make it so when you're in the sun you are visibly affected by it like it gets super bright or something

- Why start the player in the upgrade screen when they don't have any money

- It was never really clear to me what the wheel and laser upgrades did. Does the laser upgrade improve my blue laser or my pink laser? Why is there a power value next to them, do they cost more energy the more I upgrade them

- I don't see how this fits the theme at all, but that's a really minor gripe because it is just a game jam theme after all

Overall really impressive work!