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Yeah I've heard from one of the two who playtested the game that they thought the gears were obstacles at first too, I think I should have made that clearer, maybe even by making them unavoidable at the start. Randomness could be good but also if the game was a series of preset levels people could compare each other's times, that was my thinking at least.
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Edit: Updated the game's description to address this