Thank you! We had a lot of fun developing this, I made all the music during commutes whilst juggling the art assets at night. I really enjoyed making the shorter, bouncier tracks as I'm so used to working with incredibly dense music artistically w my band and solo music.
We really appreciate the feedback regarding the gameplay loop! We originally wanted to make the goal of collecting every type of friend possible but couldn't balance it all during the jam period, so instead focus was put on collecting as many as possible with a simple timer upgrade to increase the odds. However, we want the game to really reward the player for performing well! and so for the future we have plans in the works to improve this.
Also have plans to ease players/tutorialise a bit more for those less accustomed to rhythm games and some other QoL things. We plan to address much of these things in a future update :)
Also I'll definitely post the OST somewhere at some point!