Really liked this game, very nice job! Very clean and simple. Everything looks, sounds and feels great! You made all the visuals and sound of this? That's really awesome! A couple things to improve it (both which are not game breaking and probably should be considered only after the jam) might be:
- I think it's not clear that you lost because the lifeguard on the right looked at you, something about it maybe doesn't stand out enough for it to be obvious on its own. It looks great by the way, but something about the way the lifeguard moves, doesn't really stand out so much from the rest of the background, which also looks awesome but I guess somehow this combination makes it confusing or something.
- The instruction in the beginning to "make them meet" might not be enough for it to be obvious. The lifeguard doesn't animate very prominently or do something in particular, instead just some wave shows animating. It looks great, but it might not be clear enough, so it may be hard to notice it without taking a closer look.
- I also liked the minimal game over screen that had just a restart icon and an exit icon, but because of the lack of the other clarifying indicators, this screen was actually kind of confusing too at first without a closer look.
- The instruction in the beginning to "make them meet" might not be enough for it to be obvious. The lifeguard doesn't animate very prominently or do something in particular, instead just some wave shows animating. It looks great, but it might not be clear enough, so it may be hard to notice it without taking a closer look.
- Some runs are just impossible I think, even if timing the start and stop of the storm when trying and even guessing correctly when the transition animations are starting to gain a few more milliseconds, even then I think some runs are actually literally impossible.
- Maybe to improve it, there shouldn't be impossible runs. I don't consider this in my opinion to be game breaking, so I don't think you should attempt to change it during the jam, or anything else brought up here, I didn't find any game breaking bugs.
I notice the itch.io page doesn't have anything on it in terms of a description. Everyone in jams (even ones where they strictly lock the submission file) can change the contents of the itch.io page whenever they want, and there's no rule against it for this jam, as long as you don't try to change anything in the actual game itself that you uploaded you should be fine.
If you have ideas how to clarify some of these things in the itch.io page description without changing the game itself in any way, it may be helpful to put something there, even now. This may help just in case any players may be similarly confused, but instead of trying to figure it out, simply quit the game. They might even base their rating on their initial impression of the game, such as even that they were not able to figure out how to play it instead of looking closer to see how to do it, but may or may not say so straight out in the comments, or might rate without commenting.
Overall, really nice job on this game!