very engaging gameplay! for me at least it moved a bit too fast to encourage experimenting with combining different materials. by the time i started losing to the enemies i was pretty overwhelmed with everything going on, so it would be nice to include an option to slow it down for beginners. great job though!
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Thank you for the kind words.
Our thought was that it takes around 4 minutes until you lose if you do absolutely nothing; if you produce spears you get around 6-8 minutes until you lose. So while it FEELS like you need to be really fast, you actually have quite a lot of time even in your first attempt, But from the feedback we're getting it seems like how it feels is more important than how much time you actually have.
We also designed around the idea of multiple plays, i.e. you play, learn, lose, start again with more knowledge, repeat. But it's maybe not realistic to expect people to play a game for that long when reviewing jam submissions.
Again, thanks for your feedback and thanks for playing!