So for my game I have a huge regret that comes from the feedback of almost everyone who has played it so far. In my game you have one attempt to slice everything on screen, and if you lose you have to start over. Originally I thought that since there were only 6 small zones that this would not be an issue, but this view turned out to be very wrong. I think that people found it unfair that each zone was too hard to complete successfully on the first try, and didn't like having to redo the game from that point. Played perfectly the game only takes 1 minute to complete so this is where my optimism came from. Despite this I think my game could have benefit a lot from adding a few lives to the player for multiple reasons.
- Players would feel like the game is a lot more fair
- Players that have played the game before get multiple chances and get to experience looping through the levels more
Once you complete the 6 zones, you loop back to the start and the game plays back even faster and gives you a score bonus.
https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2019/rate/461791