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• The golden handle was an interesting game, in that it reminded me very much of the Newgrounds games that I enjoyed when I was first learning about browser gaming. The art style, player character inertia, and weapon speed (both swapping and attacking) were very reminiscent of the Newgrounds style and I feel this game has an audience with anyone who has nostalgia about that period in gaming. The music functioned perfectly, although your GDD mentioned that it might not work in browser. I tested this game in Microsoft Edge browser, in case this helps you to zero in on an issue. The enemy spawn rate increased so quickly that I found myself breezing through the game until suddenly there were 10 Vikings on the fence. After a solid 5 or 6 seconds of gameplay under those terms, it was game over each time. Maybe having a special ability to deal with large crowds, a wider hit box for the sword, or scaling back the spawns per level would assist in giving players more time per run. Thank you very much for this submission to Pirate Software Game Jam 16.