Making a jam game in Desmos is absolutely nuts. Kudos for that.

Technical absurdity aside, this is definitely one of the better incremental games I've played thus far. There are a lot of interesting mechanics here to make the simple concept of "number go up" a lot more engaging. I particularly like that some relics only have effects when they're destroyed, meaning you have to put something in to destroy nearby relics and then make sure you don't place it next to any relics you want to keep around. You have to put a good bit of thought into how you arrange your relics, not just for relic destruction but also for relics like the green spinner which copy what's on the right. 

My main issue is that actually getting your manual spins to register can be a pain. If you spin too fast, it doesn't register, so you have to spin really slowly to guarantee that your spins get counted. This might just be a Desmos limitation though; I wouldn't know since I'm not all that familiar with Desmos as a game engine.

The game also sounds really nice—love the music and SFX—but it feels really odd that there's not a sound effect for getting points. Makes the beginning of the game weirdly silent. But ignoring that gripe and the one above, this is a great jam game (even ignoring how technically impressive it is).

Wild that you used desmos for this lmao, you crazy person. I found it quite satisfying and the sounds were super nice to listen to. 

Until close to the end I didn't even realize the item descriptions where on the left, and due to that it felt like half the items were randomly getting destroyed when I spun, was quite confusing haha. It also felt like there were a bit too many "on destroy" items vs other items, but that might have just been my luck. 

Oh also the game doesn't look right on an ultrawide, had to make the window more to 16:9 to make it show stuff better.

Cool game though!

Hello! I played a few runs of your game and I have some feedback for you!

• I found it a bit confusing at first that your Mult stays with you and is not tied to the relic that generated it. I figured it out pretty quick but I was confused the first time I sold a mult relic.
• I like that you included Jimbo as a relic and wear the Balatro inspo on your sleeve.
• A graphing calculator? That's wild.
• Is there any relic that gains you time? I didn't see one. That might be overpowered, honestly, but maybe if it's on a 'when destroyed' relic.
  • I did find a relic that costs you time, I tried it out once but it seems like such a huge detriment. 
• The shop gave me this once:
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  • Such choices!
• Sometimes my spins didn't register. Probably a limitation of the... um... "engine".
• I seemed to do better when I switched to more 'basic' relic setups such as just having a couple that give mult and a couple that give points. When I went with all the fancy stuff I did like, orders of magnitude worse.
  • I'm sure I just didn't get far enough in to see the 'meta'
• It might be nice to have a shop phase at regular intervals instead of having to buy and sell as fast as possible so you can get back to spinning. Maybe I'm just thinking of this too much like Balatro though, this is a different game and the frantic clicking on items is a part of it.
• But, like, ...a graphing calculator. huh.

And that's my thoughts. Hopefully this feedback comes off as constructive rather than negative! I had a lot of fun with this one! I do have around 100 hours in Balatro across platforms (which I know is basically nothing to some people), so I do like a 'Numbers go up' game. This was my high score and the relics I used to get it:

Have a wonderful day and good luck in the Jam!

everyone knows you're using a calc

I don't want to even imagine how insanely difficult this must have been. The craziest thing is that the game underneath all the lag actually seems pretty fun. This is exactly the kind of thing that I would play late into the night and forget about the time. 

I really don't understand why people are so hell-bent on making games in Desmos, but I suppose incremental games are the easiest to do in it (this isn't the first one of these I've played). Kudos for doing it though, at least you realise how odd it is. XD I'd offer suggestions for improvements, but I think it all boils down to "don't use desmos", haha. All that said, good job getting it working in time!

Metagame cog 74/126

Clearly, this is a very serious game. A bit too serious for me - or a bit too laggy. Unfortunately, I was unable to get any dollars from spinning, despite how much effort I put into rotating the knob along the circle. Maybe it was due to the fact that for me the game played at something that felt like 5-6 fps, but idk.

Thanks for the cool project anyway!

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I don't even know what to say

Very nice and cool incremental game, I got 1 million score, idk if thats good or bad.