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I'm playing on a 4K monitor, with the browser window plenty large enough for the viewport. Here is the offset menu I see:

One of our kids played as well. We'll be posting their full review later, but they had issues with the game crashing when they tried to play in fullscreen.

We do use the Vivaldi browser, which is Chromium based, and are on Linux. I just tested with Chrome itself and Firefox, and both seem to be centering correctly. I'll need to look into it more to see why Vivaldi has an issue and Chrome doesn't. Another dev I know recently had a similar alignment issue in browser with one of their games made with Godot, and I don't think they were using Vivaldi.

For the shops, the main issue for me was not knowing how they worked. Now that I do I can adjust thing in the future. Since the game is replayed many times it won't be too bad learning this in a game and only impacting that game, but it is also something that could be added to any tutorial or instructional materials.

I can totally understand having things designed so that you expect them to be setup when the gameplay starts. Just a shortcut to get back to the upgrades screen would be enough.

I did a bit more testing. It seems that the Display Options for Resolution & Window Mode are not being saved/loaded. This is not just when restarting the game by refreshing the page, but also when starting a run and returning to the Menu. I was trying to experiment with different settings to see if they had any affect.

I also tried switching to fullscreen as soon as the game started, with the default settings. I did not get the crashes my kid reported, though only played a couple locations. When I went back to the menu I was zoomed in at the bottom left with clouds, and just a portion of a building showing.

I'm using a mix of mouse and keyboard currently. I don't often use fullscreen for jam games, but with my extra testing, I'm acknowledging that for keyboard you heavily use Esc. On the web Esc will exit fullscreen. You should add an alternative button that can be used for web. P is common for Pause, but would not make as much sense for some of the other uses. Similarly Backspace could make sense for going back, but if the game loses focus, many browsers will go back a page when Backspace is pressed and you are generally focused on the page. If you enable both by default that could let players in fullscreen use Backspace, as they'd be unlikely to be unfocused such that it would go back in fullscreen, and those not using fullscreen could stick with the default of Esc, along with non-web being fine with the default. You could add this as a note on the page or instructional popups in the game, while leaving the default Esc in the UI. Adding input remapping would be the best to let players chose what works for them, but that would obviously take longer. A non-Esc alternative could be a good fallback for web fullscreen users for short term.