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Yep, noticed that! I've just decided today to try and restart making little games like this, but if I want to go back to this idea, I'll make a whole new game instead of messing with this one. Still crazy that Semenar decided to include this broken mess in something else, but hey. That's the charm of these sorts of things, right? XD

Fun: 4/5

I have loved pretty much all of your games so far, and so this fits my desires and expectations from you! Hardly any clicking, I loved seeing the time tick closer to the present.

Balance: 5/5

No waits seemed overly long, but nowhere did I find that I was skipping through content too quickly. Nicely done.

Uniqueness: 3/5

Fortunately or unfortunately, the gameplay was very similar to your other games, and to "whack-a-mole idle games" in general. Still what I enjoy, just nothing new.

Theme: 4/5

Definitely about time, and building up closer to the present day, just could have been incorporated into more of the gameplay vs just a general theme.

4h01m, nice game!

If I return to this project at any point, then yes. There will be a story/tutorial added.

Yeah, I use Github for my projects. I only used itch because there was a game jam. There's another jam coming up, so you'll see one more project from me up here soon enough!

It's probably broken at this point. I should just remove the project from itch, lol

Mirrors are supposed to allow you to redirect your light, and can be powered up to boost the light production after reflection. Whether that works as intended is a different story. I might be just taking this project down as I haven't worked on it in a while.

Interesting. I haven't worked on this in a while, but maybe the local storage on itch is not permanent?

I know it needs a ton of work. That's why I put Prototype in the description. I have a fix for the infinite light bug, but in the process I discovered a much more pervasive bug involving light interactions. As a very entry-level coder, this is kicking my butt, lol. I'm sorry you had to play such a mess.

Yeah. I was initially teamed up with someone with more experience, but he dropped out 2 days in. I'll try again this weekend to get the biggest bugs gone, because I am interested in my concept, but my lack of actual experience keeps biting me in the ass. 

I am sorry you had a similar experience with it. I tried to specify that it was not a full game, just a concept. "This is my first submission to a game jam, and is more of a prototype than an actual game at this point." I'll probably just remove it at this point.

I apologize for that. I am redesigning the shop layout to make it much easier to work with, and I anticipate the update containing that fix, among other things, to go up this week!

Yeeeeeah, that really needs fixing. Once the jam ends on Sunday, I will have a host of bugfixes and edits to start, and this will be one of them.

The second improvement for the mirrors didn't quite make it into the game, sadly. However, I am already preparing the next major update for as soon as the jam finishes up!

That part isn't in the game yet. It was intended to be the next progression point, but the mirror bug made progress explode way beyond that point anyways.