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Neat idea and very well made overall, but map generation could use some work. My bishop gets stuck behind corridors way too often.

Thanks for the feedback! I did consider making actions consume the required symbols in CTX (I mean, it would be more natural if it does) but I felt it needs a much larger CTX to prevent the player from quickly exhausting symbols, which I do not want to have due to screen size limits. But yeah, right now standing still and spamming one powerful action is perhaps overpowered especially in earlier levels when there is less risk of being surrounded.

I think a workable middle ground might be making each action add only one (or more, depending on the exact action) symbol(s) to the CTX. This way you can still spam one action, but only for a few rounds instead of indefinitely. Maybe the new symbol added can itself be of use (imagine an attack that uses a symbol added by moving..).

There is a lot of design potential I did not explore because I started the jam very late. Hopefully I will have time after the rating period to make an updated version.

Love the graphics and music. The eclecticism of graphical themes combined with the upbeat music reminds me of Flash games in a very good way.

Gameplay is simple but very effective. Having to jump off a ledge so I can come back and grab the ledge above me turned out to be a challenge. Wish there is some indication of how far away the lava is when it is not on the same screen.

The inputs are unconventional but once I got used to it it was surprisingly easy to control. I like the sound effect of people talking. Gameplay is cryptic but again, once I figured out what is going on, it was pretty decent.

The graphics and the music fits the setting nicely. Gameplay is fun and easy to grasp too, although I feel the random selection of new blocks can be improved. Right now it seems to be fully random, which often leads to “droughts” of blocks of a certain colour. Would also love to have a scoring system for more challenge.

Gorgeous graphics and music. The way hazards are implemented is very clever. A very enjoyable experience overall.