hey! Nice art (especially the background) and concept, good job for your first programming experience.

The game is quite fun and I am so glad I could finish it ;)

But I had a bug when I was using arrow keys to  move, then I switched to WASD and it was ok.

It's a shame about your friend - but while I can definitely tell you had to scale the project back a lot, the player does feel very fun to control! I'd play more if there was theoretically more.

And, of course, the art is great - especially the player.

Great little game! I loved the challenge!

What a cute lil game! And great job for managing to do the programming too! Of course the art gets 5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐