thanks for playing. you def aren’t the only one who was confused it seems lol so it’s not you, it’s on me. there are a handful of ways that the cutting order affects different elements, and from other comments it seems like it’s not clear that cutting all cords asap isn’t necessarily the best solution. to be clear it definitely can be completed, i ran play tests with every order combination, & there isn’t necessarily an order that would 100% result in failure. but it def seems like some are monumentally harder than others.

the confines of the jam slice maybe didn’t present the most intuitive played-through tutorial. the best path forward is usually to cut things at the last second you can before getting hit, but the order of cuts probably wasn’t balanced well enough imo. 

but thank you again, i will def take all these comments into consideration and try to balance a few things, and tho i don’t see much more gameplay coming from this as it’s kinda a micro game by its nature i can say for sure i’ll be applying the same design principles going forward

thanks! the limitations of the jam helped drive a lot of inspiration for the aesthetic (obviously the color limit especially inherently brought out the need for alternative shading and dithering techniques). i was trying to made each one you lose really felt through the play but some worked better than others. 

ty for playing! there are a handful of ways that the order of cuts you make can affect the difficulty, it seems some def scale more obviously and logically than others. interesting that breathing affected your playthrough the most because i actually thought that might have been the weakest. i don’t have much to add to this beyond the jam slice but will be working on some balancing when i get a chance.  

thanks! i’m glad you could get through it, it seems like a few people weren’t so i def need to work on the balancing logic. 

and ty for pointing out the color issue with the text, i do wish there were better native functions  for page themes cause it seems like something small always slips through.