Hello Hiki, I've just played Spirals and enjoyed it overall. I agree with the previous points and comments, but I'll add one: are you supposed to be able to pick up / interact with the magnifying glass/ question mark icons on the map? Because I expected to be able to pick up objects or interact with other things than the green monsters, but the E key had no effect, no matter where I positioned the character. I really felt that I was missing something... are these upgrades for your ability/weapon? I died during my first play not finishing the 3 levels, but I got to the boss and killed it during my second go. Is this the end of the game for now? During my first go I ended up in a corridor filled with the green monsters and couldn't slash them all 😅 Are the maps generated randomly? Anyway it was a fun moment, but I wish there was a bit more at stake in terms of story ;-)
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Thank you so much for playing!!
The magnifying glass / question‑mark objects (which is a tie and lollipop, for... some reason. Not sure what game jam me was thinking) were originally meant to be interactable items (armour and healing items), but we didn’t have time to finish that system during the jam. Right now they’re just little references to Juniper Dev’s attire from the game jam announcement video, so you weren’t missing anything — the E key doesn’t do anything outside menus yet. I really want to make them proper pickups in a future update though!
As for progression: yes, the boss is currently the end of the game. We’re planning a small mid‑game section and more story/lore for a future update, but we’re super busy at the moment so it’ll take a bit of time.
About the corridor level — that was actually meant to be a secret challenge stage! You weren’t supposed to get it on your first run 😅 We’ll be adding conditions to access it properly when the Mac and Linux builds release.
The maps aren’t fully random yet- there are about seven variants that shuffle around. I’m hoping to add a more dynamic system later on once we figure out how to implement it cleanly.
Thanks again for playing spirals and for the feedback — it really helps shape what comes next!!!!!