It's a fun game and a clever interpretation of the game jam's theme. At the start, I was a little confused about what to do but ended up wanting to play until I reached the giant green gem.

Very well done.

After searching through this Jam's games with the "Random" filter, this is a welcome surprise. I was confused at first since I pressed A then died immediately but then I understood the assignment I beat it with a total time of 2:00.226 and 71/102 gears. Also my brain thought the gears were obstacles.

Since I actually enjoyed this experience, I will issue some criticism. I think you saw the idea of a rougelike and took the wrong lesson from it. There's a reason why things in that genre are often randomized: because doing the same thing over and over again is fun with some *variance*. I think randomizing the location of the gears each time would make it more fun, although it would mean removing the "fairness" from time attacking it but i think that's a worthy trade off. Anyway, fun game. much enjoyed.