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Thanks for playing!

Yeah, there's a few issues I saw as I developed the game, but over the course of the month from both developing the game and finding teammates, I found myself with a lot to figure out and how to not fall into scope creep.

There's actually a fair bit of stuff planned that didn't end up happening, like a  longer temple area with more enemies, more secrets, a second boss fight, an actual npc in the town (besides the dogfish), and there most certainly was something else planned to be on the other side of the starting cave. I even planned to have rebindable keys and controller support, but I've not delved into coding that in the engine I use before and by the time I tried in this game the difficulty seemed to outweigh the reward. So I stuck with mouse and keyboard and polishing up other aspects. With the throwing and healing (to answer your query, it's supposed to be algae), I'm usually too busy making the gameplay that I don't really sit down and think on how to due a proper tutorial, and I wanted to avoid having something in your face with a floating text prompt for every possible action, so I stuck with showing e over the stick to interact and having a list of controls in the pause menu, so hopefully I can come up with something better in the future.

I'm actually planning to update the game post-jam to include stuff to be more in the original scope of the game, though it won't be that much longer than what's in the jam.

It's always good to hear helpful criticism, and even better to hear that what you made is pretty good despite the flaws!