Absolutely loved the art! The 1-bit art is so clean and the running animations are adorable—they really give the character personality. Gameplay-wise, I had a blast running, shooting, and the upgrade system made each run feel a bit different. The screen shake is intense but adds to the chaos. The music is AMAZING and really ties the whole vibe together. Would love to see more enemy variety or upgrades in the future, but even as-is, super fun!

fun game XD

but I think this game need restart button, so the player can play the game again after game over.

and then there's bug where the player can still shoot while in upgrade menu. Making me able to kill some enemies while they are paused in upgrade menu XD

One of the most fun games I’ve played this jam. Even in its current state, it’s something I would play for hours; but if I had to wish for some changes, more variety in enemies and upgrades would be on the top of my list. Also, at high levels of upgrades, the game becomes unplayable; the coin magnet begins repelling coins, and a high bullet speed makes it phase through the spiders. The theme, too, seems under-represented. Despite these flaws, this game is definitely one of my personal favorites.

Very smooth gameplay! Regarding the optimization, make sure to use offscreen omponent with destroy for bullets:

offscreen({ destroy: true }),

And coins could use hide option, to not be rendered outside of view (although might need to play with distance option as well cause of magnet ability, default is 200):

offscreen({ hide: true }),

Also, you should add tags to your objects and use collisionIgnore option for their area components and ignore all the objects that don't need collision to be checked with. E.g. for bullet obj:

add([
  ...,
  offscreen({ destroy: true }),
  area({ collisionIgnore: ["bullet", "flower", "player"] }), // including itself   
  "bullet", // tag
]);

(Lastly, consider pausing the spider spawn when in ability picker :))

Great job! <3 :)

This is very good! It feels very nice to play, although it does get quite laggy here when firing rate is too high >.< I will say, I think the screenshake got a bit much the more I played, but it felt really good at the beginnning! Also the music and sound effects are great and I really liked the art!

There aren't many features, but the game is fun. I played until the game lag. I like the music. Well done.

Great work for your second game jam! I really liked the music.