Yeeting crates into space is pretty fun. I also liked the idea of making a bigger boat from random scrap. I'm still not sure if the symbols on the crates mean anything, though, and why they were sometimes big and sometimes small. I swear the crates kept getting slowly smaller but I don't know why or if I'm just losing my mind.
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I was thinking about increasing the size in discrete steps with an animation of some sorts and so on. Probably would still have a bunch of physics bugs though.
Now I think your idea is very interesting. Gems are also used as health so that might result in some interesting interactions. Like, if you lose a gem, you don’t need as many crates attached to the boat so you can throw them at enemies. I would need to figure out a way to spawn new gems but otherwise this seems like a direction worth exploring if we decide to work on the game after the jam.
Thank you for the comments!