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It's a shame since I imagine lots of players will see CURSED as some bonus and judge it solely on normal mode's very simplistic implementation of the 10 sec gimmick, hell I almost did that

It's a tough call, yeah. Ratings don't matter too much to me though, my partner and I have been wanting to make a game together for years and this jam happened to be at the right time when neither of us were too-deep in our own projects, so we finally did it. :)

We are, however, making a list of improvements for after the jam's rating period, to improve the game; with basically everything we should've done had we more time. Among these, I think I may rename 'normal' mode to 'novice' because, yeah, it basically is. ;)

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You could just name it something like "simple", "orthodox" or even "traditional" and default to cursed mode. Getting players to play the modes you want without making other modes feel illegitimate is definitely a very tricky balance