Thank you for your in-depth review of the game :D. Yeah it was made for last year's jam, and I agree I kinda messed up the dash mechanic a bit. It never occurred to me that dash should also work when you're not holding a directional key.
Hmm, maybe a game with curved dashes could be a cool concept...
I was working on a game this year too, but time constraints made it unfeasible to finish without stressing it for way too much. Here's an image of the game:
