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Congrats!

this is against the spirit of the game jam.

Yes

I had fun, but if you'd like feedback, I have a few thoughts:

- The player should move faster, for a modern game it feels too sluggish

- The combat is fun but would feel better if the player had a larger attack, personally. It's skill (timing) based, which is great, but the small attack hitbox makes it very punishing.

Not seeing the theme

Agree, and will add that the tutorial should show what elements correspond to what signs (maybe this part can be accessible after the tutorial as well?) so that the player does not need to do outside research to excel at the game.

Very fun as is! If you're interested in feedback, see the below:

- It would be more engaging as a timed exercise where you try to get the most points in X seconds, and then your points are added to the shop but reset to 0. A leaderboard would work very well for this game. If it was timed, you can also introduce incremental difficulty -- the time limit is very overwhelming for new players and it'd be great for the player to work up to it and see some successes before they master the game.

- There should be a more drastic visual change in a block when it is no longer able to be clicked, the fade out effect creates situations where the player feels like the block is still there when it is no longer clickable.

Fun, but it was unclear how to get new creatures. I kept trying combinations involving Energy and Life thinking that I would be able to create them, but I only got spells. I feel like being able to create creatures (if not already possible) and having clear guidelines for what combinations result in creatures would add more strategy, as you'd be deciding whether to use your elements on creatures or on spells. 

I don't know about all of you, but I am going to use the one rating for the average of all four categories, for fairness.

Could have used a reminder to press E to pick up bottles. I know it told me how to press E to pick up my boat, but I forgot the key pretty fast

Ditto

That's funny, you guys had the same idea as us!

https://keyboardkommander.itch.io/punks-n-patriots