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!