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Glad you liked our game! When we made the game, we had no idea there were others with the same main mechanic, but later, upon finishing, we found like 2 games, i believe one is in gmtk 2026, and one in last years gmtk, with the hourglass mechanic. It is inevitable when there are like 10.5k games per gmtk but it was still pretty interesting to see that others had the same idea.

Art person here, i'm glad you liked our game! The cannons are kinda unintuitive, they remove the total amount of sand from the player so they have to jump faster, I believe the player starts with 6 seconds split between the two halves and each shot removes 1 second worth of sand. Sand cap is restored upon entering a checkpoint (perhaps for the first time?) or respawning. To be honest, it would have been better if they dealt knockback but on some levels that was deemed too punishing and we didn't end up implementing it.