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Thanks for playing! You and the gems were slowly getting bigger and the camera was slowly zooming out to compensate for that. Newly-spawned boxes were bigger because of that too. This probably was a mistake since it’s not obvious at all, yeah. And the symbols are just a decoration.

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Oh i get it ! Yeah that's not really intuitive. The boat getting bigger as you add more crates would probably have been enough to qualitfy for the jam theme. 

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I wanted to counteract that because otherwise at some point there would be no actual reason to keep expanding the boat. In hindsight, yeah, there probably are better ways to achieve it

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Maybe you'd be getting more gems, and need to expand the boat to keep them all ?

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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!

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I'm sure you could figure out a bunch of ideas !I think we all have some regrets on what we could have done with a bit more time. I sure have.  Congratulations on doing the game in time already.