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Hey there ladybug_games, I got your game for judging so here are some of my thoughts. Good use of custom art, and I love the idea of using paintbrushes to bring color back to the maps.  Drifty has already shared a lot of the same issues I had with gameplay, so I'll try not to repeat it. White words on a white background made dialogue hard to read, I wish you had either made the message windows darker or switched the words to black instead. 

I'm sure the deadline kept you from adding more items and enemy types, but if you keep working on this project I hope you add some more. An item where you throw paint instead of a rock could offer up some new ways to solve puzzles, and maybe a leech that doesn't attack but instead searches the map to remove color could force players to defeat it before they can focus on the color map.

Overall, congrats on making a interesting puzzle game! There are places that could use some more time and polish, but the puzzles themselves are fun and rewarding to solve.

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Hi hiddenone! Thank you so much for the feedback!

I appreciate all your advice, especially how to fix the readability of the message window; still unsure what I was thinking when I made the font and window the same color ^^; This jam has definitely  taught me a lot about player accessibility. After the contest, I’m going to update the demo with a darker message window, white text, and take away the dark outline of the text. And I’m getting a new font for sure!

I actually had a Leech named “Gunker Slug” planned for the second level that crawls over tiles and sucks away paint but ran out of time to introduce it properly . I also had an item called “Paint Bomb” planned for that exact idea! xD I was thinking you could hurl them at tiles you can’t reach on foot, or if you forgot to paint a tile that's far away, you can just throw that instead of having to go back over your paint trail.

Wish I could have put more into this build, but I am so stoked to hear you still had fun! Good luck with judging, and have a good weekend!