The movement is, I readily admit, definitely Not Great. I struggled with it a lot. Everything else was far more in my wheelhouse, haha.
Some of the issue with timing the fart button push is, embarrassingly, an issue I created myself and didn't realize until too late. I intended the sprite to be readable as direction, but each frame of the sprite covers 1/16 TAU. And that's more than enough variance to at be annoying at best. And that's without taking into consideration any bugs in the movement, of which I know there's one that I could not get ironed out by jam's end.
My takeaway really is that even if an idea is simple to explain it doesn't follow that it will be simple to implement. However, it does give me a post-jam chase task: fixing this game!
Anyway, thank you so much for playing and for the thoughtful comment.