This game made me laugh, and I enjoyed that it lets you explore and discover. I loved that new UI just pops up as objectives in the game appear. It feels deep-fried and self-aware, but also at times I was super lost as to whether I was doing the right thing or if the game wasn't responding correctly. Do you have to click on the mites? Sometimes I collected them, and other times it felt like they didn't do anything. I like that it just throws you into the game with no explanation. I just started to spam the start button intuitively and it was fun to figure out that was actually part of the game. At some point the game restarted me from the beginning and then there was no way out of the settings menu.
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thanks for playing and for the feedback!
I really appreciate you taking the time. I really wanted to give the player a sense of discovery, so I'm glad you experienced that!
as for being confused what to do at times, this was a time management issue.
I really wanted to have CD_Ron (the dude in game) give more guidance and explanation to the player, but as the deadline approached I had to make a decision what to work on during the last few hours and because of other buggy systems I wasn't ever able to fully flesh this out.
I had a blast developing this and feel like it has potential, so this is something I'll definitely work on if I do ultimately decide to keep developing this game further.
thanks again for your thoughts!
edit: forgot to mention why the game likely restarted for you. if the MITE FLEAS (tiny, tiny mites that chase the mouse cursor) hit you, it restarts.
Ron says it but it can be missed and it's really not clear enough at all to the player.
learned a lot in this jam for sure!