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So this is fantastic and a great original idea and one of my favorite games I played in the jam so far.  Two minor complaints:

My first impressions was "Why do you move on key-up and why does it feel like there's a delay in my inputs?" but idk it's sokoban so it doesn't really matter but you'd think you'd move on key-down.  Or if you really like moving on key-up, from a game feel perspective key-down should at least acknowledge your input by animating the character preparing to move or something.

It can be hard to tell what block affects what.  Does moving left-right give me health or take away health, for example.  In practice this doesn't matter that much because you're not going to solve the puzzle right away from looking at it and it takes some trial to learn the things anyway, but it still just felt a little unclear sometimes.

But yeah fantastic, great and stuff.

Thank you! I agree on both points. I think I implemented move on button up for ease-of-implementation at the time (on button down I lock in player input, then button up steps the sokoban simulation) but I should have refactored it.

Yeah there is certainly some trial and error to figure out what blocks do. Though I feel as long as you know that right and down are +, left and up are -, it's fairly consistent. I.e. move right and hearts/move/time increases, move left and they decrease. The only unintuitive connection is the level which connects hearts to moves. The puzzle wouldn't work if hearts decreasing caused moves to decrease and vice-versa, so I swapped them such that hearts increase when you move, and moves increase when you take damage.

I made this comment while trying to solve level 10 and being stuck on it for a while.  Even after reading what you wrote here I still didn't really understand; went back to it now and I finally get that moving left would decrease your hearts while moving right would increase it.  I thought that moving either way would decrease your hearts.

Ah, ok. The movement + hearts mechanic was shown pretty clearly in level 4 (moving right increases hearts so you can cross the lava). It's not super intuitive though I agree.