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How much do I have to pay for a stamp collecting book? The stamp art is all so cool and I'd love to just be able to flip through it

Could also act as an upgrade to the flag poster and allow you to store your extra stamps without having to do the shed parcel + glue-b-gone trick

Cool short game. Beat it in one go

I find that the boss issue is mainly with the tip of the boss being able to move at relatively high speeds, which can kill the player early (I was generally finding that I was dashing a couple of frames late when I died to trying to ram through the boss). Honestly the bosses are probably fair as-is, but slightly shrinking the box on the tip (or adding an extremely short timer - 5f or less) would lead to fewer feel-bad moments for the player when they dash a frame or two too late.

Cool game, though dashes immediately ending if you graze a wall (including with movement keys while dashing away from it) got very frustrating and caused me quite a few deaths. Maybe consider having dashes either bounce off or slide along walls rather than immediately ending? The sudden lack of invincibility is very jarring when you get used to the dash duration. I also agree with arijun that it may be worth cheating a little in the player's favour with regards to the boss fight hitboxes; perhaps allowing a few frames before actually killing the player?

Regarding automatic tool switching, one I'd really like to see is automatically selecting the flag tool when you click a flag type in the top right

People with actual mice (rather than a laptop trackpad) are more likely to also have the control to scroll to the flag type they want, so I think automatically switching is a reasonable default (additionally, flagging a tile does not reveal hidden information and is therefore a fundamentally reversible action; I accidentally lost a probe earlier to forgetting to switch to the flag tool)

I think FreakzWasTaken's idea that the solution is to make it more clear what is about to be done is definitely the right approach, could I suggest putting a preview of the active tool (perhaps at 60% opacity) in the cell when preparing to take an action (i.e. a semi-transparent probe/disarm/flag icon in the cell currently hovered

Yikes

Confirmed to show by my testing: Home, End, Page Up/Down, Scroll Lock, Num Lock, Tab

(v0.27-e0.2)