Wow! Thank you so much for taking the time to provide feedback here. I totally agree, DrillBit is REALLY difficult, the learning curve is possibly a little too steep really. What I'm wanting to do is have the speed + difficulty ramp up whilst playing, I have a few ideas for that, but this is as far as I can take DrillBit during the game jam. Afterward I'll hopefully have the time to continue development and I'm definitely going to take the learning curve into consideration. Again, thanks so much :)

Thanks for playing! Glad you found it fun, the difficulty is definitely a bit punishing, I'll be looking for ways to improve this once the jam has finished judging, there's definitely things I can do to keep the difficulty overall, but make the controls a bit more intuitive. Thanks again!

Thanks for taking the time to provide this feedback! Hugely appreciated. I completely agree the difficulty is a bit extreme, honestly I just ran out of time for balancing. I LOVE your idea about inverting the controls, that makes total sense and I think it would feel more intuitive. I can redesign the killer blocks to account for that change too, so there would still be difficulty, but I think improving user experience overall could make this game difficult AND fun, rather than just difficult and a bit fun as it is currently. Thanks again! :)

Not harsh at all, I really appreciate the feedback, I'm getting some great ideas in the comments here. You're totally right about the difficulty of course, unfortunately I ran out of time for a good run of balancing the overall game experience. I really love your vector idea as well, alongside the other comments about reversing the controls (tap is slow, hold is fast) I think I can make some real improvements here after the jam is finished judging. Thanks again Fearian :)