Hey, thank you for the insightfull feedback :). Let's go point by point.
- The original idea for the game comes from a Touhou common meme where Cirno freezes frogs, so I thought it would be fun to make a game where you are a frog trying to become an ice cube.
- On the last days of the jam I started asking myself the same question as you do. "Is the thermometer maybe too small, should I add some sound cue?". One of my teachers told me the shivering effect plus the particles was good, so I brushed it aside. In hindsight, I will make a bigger thermometer and add sound to the next update.
- The frog sprite was the first thing I drew and I've grown fond of the lil' fellah. It was born as a bit of a joke against another teacher that said 8x pixel art is harder than 16x. I wanted to use the jam color palette so maybe the frog melts into the background and is a bit hard to follow. I will probably add a colored outline in the next update for visual clarity.
- About the dialog... well, I wasn't thinking about it as a proper dialog, but more of simply an UI element that you close, therefore my logic went towards "Continue-> A, Back -> B; You want to close this window, so the logic is Back, so the button is B". I have no problem adding the option to close it withA.
Thanks again for playing the game, I'm quite proud of it :)