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I think this game was more frustrating to play than it was fun. I understand that you were trying to go for a hacker theme where you brute force each letter in the game by jumping up and down on them, but I don't think it works here. While I do agree it is creative and imaginative, it came across as grindy and repetitive too. 

Take for example the letters at the ends of the word, all I did was hold the left or right arrow keys and fall to my death until I got the right letters.  I also didn't understand how changing the letters worked either, sometimes the letters go up, sometimes they go down. I didn't really make sense to me. The game also says you can dash down to reveal a letter after collecting 8 bits, bit it wasn't explained how it was done in the tutorial.

I do think that there is potential for a game here but I think the concept needs to be revisited. Maybe instead of platforming you could shoot the letters or hit them with a ball? Also maybe instead of dying to reveal one gray letter you could reveal all of them? That could fix the repetition a bit.

Thank you for your honest feedback!
Dashing down is performed by dashing while the down key is pressed.
I did not have enough time left to implement a good tutorial unfortunately. Its something I will keep in mind for the next gamejam!
Did you try the speedrun mode? There just dying every time won't work since death is penalized a bit in the end time.
You have to find the right balance between dying and staying alive.

No I didn't try the speed run mode, I didn't see the point because I thought since it was going to be the same word every time (I think it was Wowie) there was no point to figuring it out and I assumed it was the same experience. I'm pretty sure I did try holding the down key  and dashing but I don't think t worked. I dunno... maybe I'm just dumb.