YES! That hectic feeling of trying to get one mini game done and you hear a few more pop up in the background in rapid succession! like: "uh oh"

Early on, pretty much the first day of brainstorming, we decided that one of the design pillars of our game was going to evoke a feeling of eustress in the player. so I'm very glad that that was enjoyable :)

The day we brought everything together and started polishing the game I think I spent way too much time "playtesting" ( in reality I was just procrastinating by playing the game over and over again for fun, trying to get further and further into the "impossible" rounds) 

I'm really glad you liked the popping sounds, we took inspiration from Bloons with that one.  We liked how satisfying the sounds were in that game and we wanted our enemy death sounds to be satisfying as well.

Thank you so much for your detailed feedback! 

I'm so happy to hear that you played it so long!

The music interruptions might have actually been because at the later rounds we pitch it up much more than usual (so that might mess with the buffer) I'll have to look into that.

The music is actually supposed to  jump in pitch, it's just not supposed to cut out lol

It means you reached what I (personally) have playfully dubbed the "annihilation rounds"

Basically it's when the game decides that it's over and tries to kill you by spiking the difficulty a crazy amount each new round, increasing the enemy movement speed by a lot, to the point of being unbeatable.  Signified with the audio queue of the music getting faster and higher pitch. but if i could go back, I would probably add a visual queue as well. 

Any frame rate lag, was definitely unintentional though, if we had had more time to work on it prior to the deadline we probably would have focused on optimizing so that doesn't happen. A day before the submission ended I discovered a killer memory leak that was turning the game into a slideshow (literally  3 FPS) during the later rounds which thankfully was caught. But the game would no doubt benefit from further optimization!

I wholeheartedly agree, more mini-games are needed! If we end up continuing development with this game after the jam, more mini-games would absolutely be one of the first things to be added in.

As for the difficulty, maybe we should implement different difficulty modes.

Thanks for the feedback! I definitely agree that clear instructions would improve the game, the prompt kind of disallowed that exact thing though. So after voting maybe we'll add it in?

In the meantime we set it up so that the player could do literally nothing for the first two rounds and not take any damage. and hopefully they'll see the towers automatically fighting enemies and immediately realize "this is a tower defense game". And I trust that by round three  they'll have thought to press at least one of the few lit buttons on screen, if not just to see what they do. 

Nope, your intuition was spot on haha, the camera is definitely off. That was my personal bad. I asked if we're allowed to fix it, but I don't know if that's against the rules.  So it might just have to stay a little janky for the next week. But if I get the go ahead, I might fix it sooner. 

Honestly, that became one of my favorite parts of the game. The mini-game designer was cooking with that one, they call it "percussive maintenance", which I think is just perfect.

As for the camera, yeah I honestly dropped the ball on that one. I put in a camera solution early on and never ended up going back to fix the jank. If I have one regret with this game, it's the camera.