This is a great starter project.  You did a great job with the basics and you added some more advanced stuff too, like the particle effects.  There is a lot of ways to progress here - score counters, difficulty, buffs, modes, etc.  I hope you keep working on it.  What would you want to add next?

nice and fi=un game

A fun and simple game that's easy to get into

A couple small changes could go a long way toward improving this:

• Way too much lead-in time on the clang sound. One hears it and can’t even tell what action caused it, sometimes you’ve already caught another gear before it starts.
• Need to ramp up the difficulty as it goes. This can be as simple as shortening the spawn interval every time you catch something.
• Background image doesn’t cover the playing field.

*CLANG* *BRAAAP* *CLANG*

Simple but fun, a music in the background can make a game feels better

Basic game, but thank you for the effort of offering a game for this jam!

I spent way too long catching poop before I realized my score was going down.

audio of catching gears was delayed for me