Thanks :) To be fair I don't know exactly what I wanted to do about that xD.
My original idea for the jam did not have anything in common with this (it was more like a mix of fruit ninja with scrabble, something pretty weird :) ) but I didn't have much time to dedicate to this and I wanted to upload something.
There are a couple of things going on here:
- I played it in full screen mode in my browser during development and it is the first thing that I upload to itch.io, so I had no idea what it would usually be the size. Seems like the default size is comically small for this, I probably should have changed it xD
- Had a couple ideas, the initial one that I had with the hearts was that each time you receive 3 goals, you get converted into a ghost and then you "rebirth" after deciding in a menu what statistic to level up.
- But there was an issue, I couldn't get the physics right and the AI even less so, so you would never receive 3 goals.
- I wanted to upload something and at least be somewhat on theme, so I put an "auto-death" after some time and a number of required goals in total across all generations to "win" the "Bean D'Or". After each generation some stats are increased (you are a bit faster, shoot with a bit more power, etc). But this is very difficult to notice.