we did consider that during development, our solution was to give you either too many or too few beats to divide cleanly among the four measures, so you'd be encouraged to add some variation. but in the end we figured that if you spread the beats perfectly evenly regardless, then the punishment would be that your beat just wouldn't sound very good lol

as for the weapon placements, I kind of like how it turned out- it gave the game distinct phases and kept it from being too demanding in the later stages! but the in-run progression is definitely one of the main things we're thinking about for future updates, we had a lot of ideas that would make weapon positioning a bit more important (weapons with trade-offs, movement abilities, position-based pitch, a second beat track...) but we just ran out of time for the jam version. this was already a bit much for us in 4 days, but I'm really happy with how it turned out! very excited to expand it once the rating period is done

you're only able to swap out weapons once the slots are full,  you can't get more. I found that beyond that point the beat just got too full of notes and stopped being fun to add to

thanks for playing! I'm glad you had fun, we can't wait to add more to the game after the jam rating period is done

dude this is like 2x my high score, you're a legend, thanks for playing!!!

hey I played yours right before I got the ping for your comment! i really like what you did with the idea as well, my favorite part was how your bodies persisted on the screen. I'm glad more people went with loop pedal concepts, it's really neat to see everyone's music

hey I liked yours too! you really nailed a fun mechanic while keeping the concept perfectly simple, the playhead playing the active notes was a great touch

glad you had fun! i was REALLY bad at making beats but playtesting the game gave me a ton of practice haha

i really liked the writing in your game btw! :)