You can hover your mouse over the little coloured squares on the right side of the screen and some of them kinda explain how they work. Then you can drag the dice from the left side of the screen onto them. You have to be fairly precise, but then the die should stick to the buff slot. If you weren't close enough, it won't get sucked in to the center of the slot. The buff slots should've been bigger so you don't have to be so precise so sorry about that.

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I knew I wanted to do a top-down shooter. My thought process was dice have 6 sides and a revolver has 6 bullets. So, from there, I figured I'd use the die to select the gun based on the amount of ammo it held (except the launcher which has 2 ammo. I just thought a 5 on a dice looked like an explosion). Sorry if I sold you on the game based on potato cowboy and then underdelivered. That was my last-minute way of justifying the default Unity capsule as the player. I coloured it the same colour as the hat and thought it looked like a potato.

I hadn't really thought of pausing interrupting the flow. I wanted the forced pause to force people to engage with the system and so you can't just roll all 6s once and be good for the rest of the game. That's also why the damage buff decays and it would have been a stronger theme with more buffs that decay over time. I used the Megaman Battle Network system of you have to survive x seconds, but then you have the option of when you want to rebuff. You have to survive a minimum of 10s and are forced at 30s. So I figured the player would have enough agency of when they wanted to rebuff. But that isn't explained anywhere so I could definitely see some confusion from the forced pause like "I don't think I pressed space? Did I?"

The enemies upgrade from 1s to 2s, etc. every 10 kills, increasing their health and damage, and then they spawn the big boss dice with 6 health bars. So I should have had these bosses drop some sort of bonus like the extra dice, but I just opted to have every enemy have a chance to drop extra dice.  So the only form of tension you get is having to go close to enemies to pick up what they dropped.

True. I was thinking of this menu as an overlay and not another menu so I think a solid background (while a solution) would have a different feel, but I probably could have put the dice in a tray with a background to separate it. Or maybe blur out the gameplay so there's higher contrast. 

Ya, the pause thing should be more clear. Saying 'pause' doesn't tell you that it opens up the upgrade menu. I should go make that more clear in the description. The big dice are the sort of 'boss' enemy so they have 6 health bars. Them rolling is them moving to the next health bar. I wanted to make the pips on the dice disappear as they lost health, but didn't get around to it.

The effects, sound, and art are all in my post-jam notes as something I dropped the ball on and should've done better. I did them all in the last few hours, got them to just good enough and then gave up. But I could have utilized the art in a better way. Like having the player be just the hat and have just the gun move up and down to aim and just flip the art when you aim left/right (which I've even done in a different game). Instead of the 3D capsule player.

Thanks for the feedback.