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Some additional feedback after playing for a while. The update you made made it much easier to understand the game and with some battle practice I managed to get much further. My experience can be divided into 3 parts:

Beginning - this is not very fun. The ship is too slow and hard to turn and battles are very long and hard to win. You get game over a lot until you've learned the trick. Delivery quests are a pain because they take ages. 

Middle - after upgrading steering, speed, and cannon cooldown a bit the battles become quite fun. Not too easy, not too hard and it's not frustrating to maneuver the ship. Delivery quests are interesting because they make you explore a bit.

End - you quite quickly max out the upgrades and battles become too easy. Finding enemy ships becomes the new problem and this is not fun as it's just trudging on an on over an endless sea. You've seen the same island many times over and delivery quests are not interesting anymore.

If you find a way to make starting out more engaging, and add more variety and balanced difficulty for the endgame, this could be great!

I tried it again now - wow that's quite an upgrade and impressive how fast you made it. Much better. Looking forward to seeing where this is going :)

Looks very promising, I can see how upgrading/equipping the ship can be very satisfying. Some feedback:

- The starting state of the ship is quite sorry. Very slow, bad at manouvering and shoots weakly and slowly. I get that I'm supposed to upgrade this but as it is now the starting state is just not that fun. At least let me start closer to the island so I can upgrade

- Sound and music would add a lot to the experience

- It would be nice to have some visual way to see the cannon cooldown for each side, so you know when you're ready to shoot without having to try it and fail or waste a shot

- Some tutorial or help on how to navigate and shoot would make it easier to get into the game

- The upgrades should have some explanation so you know what they do and how much they cost

- The icons could be alot more clear. Planks is an unconventional icon for healing (or is it repair? That's a bit inconsistent) and the pirate ships on the top is the health bar - but why is it made up of ships? It looks more like lives than health. And why is there a gold coin?

Itch forgot to notify me so I missed this, sorry! I'm glad to hear it's addictive, that was one of the goals. I agree the commands are somewhat useless in this version of the game, but we'll try to remedy that. Thanks for playing and for the feedback!

Itch forgot to notify me so I missed this, sorry! Thanks for the kind words and great feedback. We've decided to keep working on this game and the main focus will be to find a way to make the programming a more core part of the game, so that you're rewarded for doing clever things there. Your ideas make a lot of sense to me. Thanks for playing!

Thank you for the kind words and the feedback! I too feel that this has potential, though balancing has proven very hard. But I want to keep working on it, and even more so after I read your comment <3

Great tutorial, makes it clear how to play. Suggestion:change the color from light-blue text on light-gray backgroundto something with more contrast.

This was excellent! Well done!

Looking forward to trying again with combos :)

Cool game! I didn't understand the combo system though, I never made any combos.

Wind rose FTW!

Nice idea! Got hard pretty quick though, or I suck at survivor-likes.

Haha I got trolled pretty bad by this

Are there any rules against making the game public on itch before submitting? And announcing it online? I'd like to do some play testing early and may be able to get some testers from Twitter or similar.

Great suggestions, thank you! 

Well done, tight game loop. I suck at fighting games though :P

Interesting, I like the idea of whacking the poor guy for no reason! His groan is very satisfying as well. Some feedback:

- The whole game is sort of cropped and you cant see the edges

- What's the timer for? I couldn't see it and it didn't seem to have any effect

- The timer and restart button is unnecessary IMO - just have a button to launch the next wrench

- Physics are not deterministic, so even if I don't change anything the wrench will take a different route. Makes it hard to plan and execute

- After I pressed H I was not able to close the help screen

This was amazing. The music, the random words, really gave me a creepy insane feeling, sort of like the movie Shutter Island. The idea was really cool, to find words to gain abilities and then use those to find new words. Well done, best one in the Jam for me so far (I've tried 10 or so).

Some small feedback:

- The STORY page was really hard to read

- Alt-TAB didn't work (on browser version) as it would not let you get back in the game afterwards. This was especially annoying with the bit.ly link

- Audio was really loud and had a lot of clipping - a shame on the great music!

- The game let you continue even if you made the wrong sentence, like "I am the guy dude who..."

- If you came back to a previous goal word it would act as if you were still going for that word. So you could "jump back" to a previous "level" and it would seem like you had to do that part again.

Maybe - I did read the manual but it still didn't really make sense to me until about level 2. I think maybe the instructions should be more clear what a corruption is, where I see them in game, and how they affect the robot.

Interesting idea. I haven't played any side view tower defense before.

I liked this game. The music was dope, the pixel art was crisp, gorey and colorful, controls were simple and responsive, the premise was interesting even if it was simple. Gave it a fairly high review. Some random details that can be improved:

Attack animation should show the actual hit radius better, now it looks like hi swings more behind his back

"Press E to pick up almost invisible" text was often almost invisible

Hit corpses to move them - feature or bug?

Parallax background was nice but could be  more pronounced

Mouse+keyboard control combination was a bit weird for a 2D platformer

Stairs were a PITA really. Took me many minutes to get past that part. You have to stand on one exact step and then press jump and move very precisely to be able to get up. Very annoying.

Hitting multiple stacked-up foes at the same time causes the hit audio to be too loud

Boss instakilled me, no idea how to defeat him. It's OK that he's hard and can't be killed on first attempt, but it would be nice if I had time to learn something at least.

Cool intro, but would be nice if it was skippable

Graphics and atmosphere are awesome, same with the creepy audio

Full screen would be nice

Became extremely laggy in certain areas

If the window loses focus (al-tab for instance) it's impossible to get back into it as the mouse doesn't work

I made it so that you are (sometimes) punished for using the wrong tool - otherwise you can just spam every tool everywhere to fix all problems. But I agree it can be hard to know in the beginning, you have to really want to figure it out and I get that many players will not have the patience to deal with that. Especially if they're unlucky and get a hard problem in the beginning (they are randomly generated). Will have to think about that. Thanks for the feedback and I've rated your game, I really liked it!

Interesting idea but I could not figure it out. The video link didn't work. Some random feedback:

- how to play and intro text are hard to read

- the different gray boxes should be labeled so you know what is what

- very hard to understand - the icons dont seem to have anything to do with wings and engines

- labeled icons would also help maybe?

Nice game! Interesting take on puzzle mechanics. It took a while before I understood what corruptions were. Maybe they should have explaining icons instead of just colors? I'm too stupid though, could not get past level 5.

Any ideas how I could make it easier? There is an easy mode in settings that makes electrical and power problems more obvious. Maybe that should be on by default?

Thanks, glad you like it! Any tips on how to make it easier to get going? My brother made the music, will pass your comment along :)

Let me know if you need any help reproducing the bug!

Utterly unplayable without pressing G lol. Cool idea, but a bit hard to understand how to play and once you do understand, it's too easy. But I like the cartoony art :)

How does that work?

I like the atmosphere and quirky game idea but the controls are quite slippery. Couldn't finish 2nd level

Cool game. Unfortunately I got stuck on the level where you return the coffin to the snot river, because I could not change direction of the zonbies. Mouse wheel did nothing...

That was cool! I like how it hinges around getting information so you never have to perform a long string of actions in a row. My only complaint is that controls are too slippery so you often miss what you're aiming for. Well done!

Very cute. Thank you :)