Thanks for trying it out and giving feedback! Originally I was planning to do merging with the map itself too, and the platforms, but I started running out of time :(. I learned a lot though, this was fun.

It was my first time doing a tile-map with hex tiles, so first I read a bit on redblobgames, and then decided on using the "offset coordinate" approach since it looked the easiest. The data for the tiles is just a 2d array of integers, same as I would use to make and orthogonal grid, then when I render, or convert pixel coords -> hex grid coords, I have the pixel offsets hard-coded in. I just copy and pasted tiles together by hand in my pixel art editor to find the offset values. Check out src/map.c source file in the repo to see (its messy and the offsets are all just magic numbers). Overall, probably not the cleanest way to do it, but I didn't want to spend too much time on it either.

Yea, I was scrambling towards the end, By around wave 10, the difficulty should be enough where the big bots merge together, so at least you get to face a new enemy. It's possible you already saw them on the 6th, but that's my fault for not making the first 10 better.

By wave 10, the difficulty should be high enough to see the merge mechanic and another enemy type. I didn't have that much time at the end to play test and balance unfortunately. otherwise I would have that introduced sooner. Maybe you already saw those, but it adds a tiny bit of variety.

Thanks for the feedback! Bullet variety would would be really neat to add after the jam too.

Yea, i was referencing that game for the steering movement and visual fx too. I was hoping the title might make that relationship more clear for people haha.

Thank you! Glad you liked it.

Thank you! it's my first gamejam, so I'm still learning how to fit everything in the time constraints. Glad you like the MC too, but maybe next time ill just do hats ;) haha.

Thank you! I was really impressed by your game.