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The game actually auto-saves quite frequently, and you can hit Escape to pause the game to manually save & quit. I'm realizing that this isn't tutorialised or communicated in-game, so I'll be sure to update it to make that more clear. Thanks for the feedback!

There are unique enemies up to Floor 50. From 51+ it re-uses old enemies scaled-up to an appropriate level.

I love the music choices! especially the organ / piano song, do you remember which specific song it is?

This game is so cute and atmospheric, I love it! how did you get Bitsy to let you make dialogue choices like that?

Thanks for the kind words, I’m glad you liked it so much! I'm planning on fleshing it out a bit more in my free time. And thank YOU for hosting the game jam in the first place!

The game is based on two big horse races kind of merged together. The first is from a book called “American Endurance” by Richard Serrano - among other things, it’s about nine cowboys racing across a thousand miles of 1893 American Prairie to be the first to arrive at the Chicago World’s Fair, to win a Golden Revolver offered by Buffalo Bill Cody. It’s a great read! There was also a race in 1976 that is closer to The Golden Run, where 200 racers went from New York to Sacramento. I haven’t found a book on that race, but you can read about it here: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-1976-great-american-horse-race-was-won...