This has some of the best mechanics designs in the jam for sure! The chain reactions are super fun and the fact that your direction relative to the meteors matters is quite clever and makes for quite some interesting gameplay situations. Unfortunately, the controls felt very sluggish to me somehow. I wish the character just directly followed my system mouse. It often lags around in a certain spot before suddenly zipping over but it also generally doesn't match up with my expected mouse speed, even if I change the settings ingame. But that really is about the only area that I think isn't so great. Otherwise, I really enjoyed this title. The upgrade options were also a really nice touch and made the game a lot better.
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Hmm, the lagging and zipping is not a behavior we've observed before, that's unfortunate. We have a note on the game page to play with Hardware Acceleration enabled if you're playing on Chrome, is it possible you have that turned off?
I THINK setting the mouse sensitivity to max is supposed to follow your native mouse speed perfectly or close to it, but my buddy (the programmer) will probably wanna weigh in here.
In any case, thanks so much for the kind words, and we're glad you were still able to get some enjoyment from playing! Appreciate the feedback too! :)
Oh I'm a Firefox user. Also it's not the whole game lagging, just specifically the character. When I set the sensitivity to max, the character moves significantly faster than my mouse but still somehow feels unresponsive like it's a frame behind my inputs or something. It's hard to pinpoint but it feels off to the point where I find it causing difficulties with keeping up with the action.
And yeah it was very enjoyable otherwise, I really like your game design :)