Nice game! I like the art style - the doodles on notepad is a nice aesthetic! I thought maybe flipping player sprite horizontally in direction of movement would add some variation while still maintaining the crude animation vibes. Also DNA drops felt empty; maybe a sfx or some indicator it was picked up would be nice (that dopamine hit!) Turtle never felt threatening at any point; regardless of the mutations, I didn't perceive any speed difference and I was always able to outrun it. Regardless, I thought this was a great game for your first jam, and I'm looking forward to seeing your future projects!!

sup man very cute artstyle i liked it music is pretty good but would be nice to add some sort of heal to the game 

Nice game. My advise is to consider tuning the spawn radius of DNA because you can run circles around the turtle and collect all of them, so it's pretty easy. Also, it would be nice to get some unique features for each mutation/transformation.

Overall, cool submission!

I actually really like the simple looking doodles for the artwork, it's very unique.  My biggest pieces of feedback is it was very easy to get "lost" to a point where I was running around trying to find dna and couldn't find any for a bit.  Maybe the spawning needs a bit of adjusting, or maybe a mini map/arrow to help point which direction.