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Thanks for checking out the game after we uploaded a new version of it! It's a pleasant surprise to see someone still interested in! It means more than you know to get your feedback! I'm sorry you still ran into bugs - we thought we got all of the game breaking ones fixed, but apparently not!

I would love to say we'll have another update for you in time with more content and more bug fixes, but unfortunately due to some unforeseen legal issues with our employer, we have had to stop working on Harold's Harrowing Heroics *insert rant here*. We hope to one day continue work on it, or at least a game very similar to it, but there are too many unknowns right now to really confirm one way or another. If we could afford to financially, we'd just quit our jobs and work on this game full time, but unfortunately that's not a reality for any of us.

However, I can answer some of your questions!

The gems will do various things for you.

• The red gem will give you extra health, allowing you to tank more damage
• The blue gem will increase the length of your sword, making it easier to cut larger slimes
• The green gem will increase your movement speed
• The yellow gem will slow down the spawning/movement speed of the slimes (never actually implemented)

The goal was for the goo on the gauntlet to take over your gem slots, preventing you from placing gems in those slots and disabling any gems in that slot - feeding more into the "running out of space" idea which was the theme of the jam this game was made for. We unfortunately only had time to implement the visual aspect of this, and not the game play side. So, really the goo does nothing. If we ever got to continue working on this game, we planned on adding "wash stations" around the maps, where you could wash your hands - removing the goo from your gauntlet thus freeing up those gem slots once again. 

There is a way out of the labyrinth! The game loop goes like so: Arena, random maze, arena, random maze, etc., etc. There are 3 mazes that can be spawned whenever you exit an arena. Each maze has 3 exit options, one of which is chosen at random. So, even if you play the same maze (labyrinth), which is quite possible since we only have 3 made, it would still feel a little different each time because the exit location can change. The exit looks like a door - the same one you'll see in the arena areas. If you searched everywhere in that maze, but still didn't find the door out, it is possible that maze was bugged. At one point our random function that spawned a door in the maze was not guaranteeing that a door would spawn, however that bug should have been fixed.

If you have any other questions about this game I am more than happy to answer them! Again, sorry there won't be any more updates for the time being on it - we're bummed too.