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We just released an update that, in addition to bringing new content, also addresses several of your points of feedback:

• The controls are now fully rebindable in settings, allowing you to play with the keys that you prefer.
• The settings button is now available from the title screen.
• The game events log can be moved to the other side in settings.
• You can now refund the points spent while leveling up by using a new item, the Scroll of Amnesia (one is provided from start).
• The "Auto bar", determining what abilities get used when clicking on or bumping into a tile without first selecting an ability, is visible by default. It can also be reconfigured.
• The acid fluids on ground received a minor visual update, together with the introduction of water as a 3rd fluid (important for the new areas). 

You can read the full patch notes here.

Thanks again for your feedback, as it really helped us improve the game.

In the new update, version 1.1 - Flooded Caverns, we address your issues with the hot bar and weapon sets.

Both weapon sets now add their abilities to the hot bar and instead of adding and removing when switching sets, the inactive abilities are disabled instead. 

Thanks again for helping us improve the game.

Thanks for playing our game and well done on getting to floor 9!

Those are some really good suggestions, we will see what future updates bring. Thanks for the feedback.

Thank you for playing our game and making a video of it.
We really appreciate the detailed and useful feedback of the ui and controls.

Thank you for your kind words and for your continious feedback during the last few days.

I think we still have some tuning to do (and some new content coming up) but it is very encouraging to read that you are experiencing more or less what was our intentions with the game's design.

That is a great suggestion, we'll keep it in mind for future updates. Also, great to hear it works well on SD.

I wish you luck on your next run and let me know how it goes :)

Thank you for playing and well done getting that far! 

I think you have given some really good feedback and I'll try my best to answer your points in order:

1. The new abilities gained, such as when equipping a new weapon, are automatically added to the hotbar (and removed if lost). You are then free to move them around and change what abilities are on which page.  If you open the abilities panel (hotkey K) you will get an overview of all the abilities you have access to and can drag them to wherever you want.
That being said, having the option to 'lock' the hotbar could be useful, or at least not auto add new abilities, perhaps as a game setting or a checkbox right by the hotbar. Thanks for the idea!

2. You can switch hotbar in any direction (with wrap-around), resulting in what you saw if you go in a negative direction. If you use the up-button instead you will switch it in a positive direction.

3. You seem to have encountered our system of enemy reinforcements, put in place to give the player a sense of urgency and to discourage players from loitering. Each simulation tick, there is an ever increasing risk of increasingly difficult enemies being spawned and sent to hunt you. The risk being reset when you encounter new ordinary enemies. Your best bet to avoid them is keep moving ahead towards the next floor. We decided to use this mechanic instead of having a limited amount of food, fuel or similar resources to manage, which is often used to keep the player moving forward. 

4. Good point on the difficulty, we actually lowered that one quite a bit before launch since many testers kept dying, and dying, and dying . Perhaps we need to turn it up a little again in a future patch.
Please let us know if you got as far on the next run if you decide to give it another go.

Thank you very much and thanks for playing.

Thanks for the clarification. That seems like a really good system.

I think I just didn't grasp the mechanics of the yellow cards while playing. I think this game has the potential of be extremely good since it's such a simple yet effective mechanic.I also didn't know where I could see the top card when using the little angel figure. But I like the variety of the item's and they seem all very useful.

The game feels really polished with great potential. The art is charming and it conveys a very nice atmosphere. What I couldn't figure out however, even after beating the game, is if the yellow cards did anything at all. Is there ever a reason to not place the cards on the opponents mat? there seems to be no drawback to doing so (or maybe I encountered some kind of bug). Also, the peek-items didn't seem to do anything either (but double damage and make opponent skip turn are great). Anyway, I see great potential in this game, simple yet engaging. Well done!

Very nice and polished gaming experience. Short but fulfilling. The feedback and knock backs feel good and it gives off a great retro vibe. Good job!

Brilliant idea that fits the theme perfectly. Well executed as well. I found my self far to greedy, which is fun in a game like this. Really well done.

This gambling addict simulator fits the theme extremely well. As you can spend time to improve both gain per turn, chance of winning and win multiplier there is surprisingly much depth for such a simple game. Also, the visuals are consistent and the game is fun. I found myself looking for clues on exactly how much I could influence the chance by my choices but maybe it is best unknown. It's up to chance anyway and if you don't risk everything, you might not win enough to beat the bosses.

(Beat the game in 125 days)

Really cool visuals but couldn't really figure out how to play. I think it has a lot of potential though.

Charmingly animated character and fast paced game play. I didn't really get what the shooting part did as it didn't seem to do anything except slow me down while using it. After a while, I got stuck in some state where I wouldn't fall anymore but would keep running through the air.

This seems to be the start of a cool game. Unfinished, as I only seemed to have cats in my deck and the first fight doesn't appear to be beatable but if developed further could become something really fun. I wish you good luck with it if you decide to continue developing it.

A cute game with good visuals, especially the UI/Menus. The Opossum is charming and I like how you made "play dead" into a useful gameplay mechanic.

 I think I ran into a bug though where the people would ignore me and shout "ew! it is dead!" when I ran past, snatching all their cookies without them trying to stop me. 

The art is very good and the music sets an eerie mood for the entire game. I found navigating difficult though and couldn't really get a grip on how to move around. Faced one enemy that I barely beat and I would really like to delve deeper into this dungeon if I wasn't hindered by the movement. Really cool that it was made by a single developer.

I really like the concept of you having a choice of adding to the round's difficulty in return for more rewards. It fits the theme very well! Since the towers were free, what is the gold used for?

I really liked the mechanic that you didn't instantly lose lives when the ants reached your picnic basket but instead had to chase them down and reclaim the cookies. Got stuck at wave 5 when no more ants would spawn and the game wouldn't proceed to wave 6. Is there anything else to do with the coins after the initial 4 towers are built?

Cute dino! I had some issues where a large part of the play area was not visible on the screen. The mechanics seemed interesting though.

Cool little Tower Defense game! I would've loved some more info/feedback on what the different towers do as I mostly made the most expensive ones after a while (as there was a delay between building and money was abundant).

Well done!

Really nice game! A polished gaming experience. I barely beat the boss with a sliver of health left.

At first the "throw away your weapon at the enemies" felt a bit counter-intutitive but you get used to it soon and it feels like an action movie. Also, the roguelite- progression system fits very well and adds to the experience. Really good job!

Quite interesting idle clicker game that also feels a bit like a tribute to the original cookie clicker game. The staff's role being starting baking processes and selling the cookies is an interesting and successful choice instead of just having them bake on their own. The R&D being random success but also necessary to proceed makes for some good risk-taking.

Overall a cool game!

Quite fun game! 

The upgrade system forcing you to always take a debuff is very interesting  but all to often I was wishing I could take none of them. The shooters are the enemies to look out for as they can not be kited in the same way as the melee enemies.

The music gets repetitive fast but otherwise works well to reinforce the somewhat stressful atmosphere of the game.

A very fast paced game that gets increasingly surreal and weird. 

The mini games, while simple on their own, are varied and makes for a fun gaming session overall. 

I only got to about 700 on my run so I don't know exactly what the deal is with the guy getting overlaid on top of the screen but it definitely makes the game more stressful the longer you play. You are always out of time and need to think on your feet. 

Well made for pulling all the mini games off in such a cohesive manner.

This is totally awesome. Very relaxing, very nice take on the theme.

A good TD!

One aspect I really liked (though it eventually made me lose the game) is that certain enemies are fast enough to outrun the slow missiles that until then had been the backbone of my defense. 

While only 4 tower types, this feels like a complete TD experience with upgrades and a quite nicely balanced progression curve. The only thing I was missing was some kind of explanation of what the upgrades do.

Very well done!

A really impressive game that I had a blast playing! And to think this is a  game jam project!

The game offers a complete arcade experience with upgrades, resource collection, a story (that is somewhat annoying to click through as you just want to get on with the next level) and many increasingly challenging levels.
The somewhat unintuitive controls works well with the premise of the game (zero control) and get easier over time and the automatically rotating and firing turrent is a fun idea that works well for the gameplay.

Really great job on this one!

Really cool game! The visuals are consistently stylish and fitting throughout the game. Interesting and innovative gameplay with a strong message. After making the label for the beer can the game wouldn't let me proceed to the next level, is that the end or did I encounter a bug/misunderstand something?
One thing I would've liked is a preview of the "slots" where I was about to drop a label. There were many times when I thought that I put a label in a valid position, only to have it be thrown back to the printer.

Overall a very good job. I think this game could be really successful.

Unique and cool game! The pixel art-3d works well and the combination of groundhog day with a more serious theme of falling apart in a relationship makes for a cool and complete bite sized gaming experience. Very well done!

Charming illustrations. The idea of leaving a trail to get out of a maze works well as a "food" mechanic usually found in roguelikes. I found the exit after finding only the sword, did I miss out?

Great atmosphere and art. The eerie background sounds add to the experience. The player movement takes some time to figure out but is an interesting challenge. It wouldn't hurt to make interactable objects more visibly distinguishable. Overall a fun and cool game. Great work, especially for a jam!

Really cool game. Looks simple at first but the excellent gameplay, responsive interface, charming art & music as well as complete story with increasingly difficult (but not to difficult) puzzles makes this one of the best games I've seen so far this jam. Great work!

Fun idea of making a game of ordinary life. Charming graphics. The gameplay is not very obvious, can I do something to avoid being attacked by the things I pass? I would like to see where you would take this given more time.

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Very fun game with consistent and charming art. Well done and congrats to the win!

Great comic book intro! Also, this is an excellent way to comment on what seems to be an important democracy issue in the US. The gameplay fits well into the theme and is also a fun puzzle game on it's own.

Nice take on the theme as getting to many of the collectibles could lead to not being able to finish a level without restarting. Good level design (that got much harder at the first introduction of the birds, I didn't get past the first birds despite multiple attempts).

Charming game with cute art. It gets very difficult really fast though. There are quite a lot of lag spikes which is what killed me most of the time. If you work on improving the performance this could become a really fun game!