Neat concept; tying the character's power to their remaining lives makes the gameplay feel desperate as you reach closer to Game Over while simultaneously acquiring more strength. Unfortunately, the game balance currently makes the earlier lives feel frustrating to play, as the character's movement and attack speed is very slow, the fire is very hard to hit, and in general the player will inevitably become overwhelmed by enemies. It also feels like all states are a no-win scenario for the player: the weakest state is far too slow and incapable of handling the horde of fire elementals (and is also the least fun to play), but the stronger spells cause collateral damage to the trees from the ice shrapnel (usually offscreen) that makes attacking the fire elementals seem like a bad idea (even though it's necessary to stave them off).

With some better balancing and stronger visual/audio feedback, I think the idea could be an interesting one!

Cool idea. Ditto on the player feedback, also a faster fire-rate on the weapon would feel better. Still great work!

(Also rate the game my team worked on if you can :)

I feel like there should be more player feedback, like sound effects or flashes. Loads of these jam games lack it for some reason. Unfortunately this game doesn't play as well as it looks. (sorry if that sounds harsh haha)