Despite the simplicity of the game - I actually find it among the best time-freezing games in this Jam. And I think it has to do with sound design - the music and this pew-pew by lasers. You kinda align with the beat, and it feels good to freeze-unfreeze. Great job!
I think that mouse is a bit too unlimited in terms of speed, though, as you can cross the whole level in one swipe, which makes some levels a bit too easy, almost missing the whole level content.
Thanks for playing!
The mouse movement being overpowered is something that's been brought up. I tried designing each level to be beatable with all three movement modes because I wanted the game to be accessible to those who couldn't figure out how to use mouse move mode. But since a lot of the levels require you to move over long distances to get between safe spots and mouse move mode is so much faster than either of the other two movement modes, a level that would normally be hard with either of the other two movement modes will almost always become a joke with mouse movement.
If I were to do it again, I probably would have designed all the levels to require more precision manuvering. Since the main strength of the mouse is being able to move very fast, this would have made it less overpowered without making things more unfair for the other movement modes.
If you want the game to actually be challenging with mouse move mode, hard difficulty might be up your alley. :)
Right, the problem with that is that for accessibility purposes, I wanted to let the player configure the speed of the mouse. Although capping the mouse speed might have been a good alternative.
You may have noticed that on the later levels, you need to be more cautious in your approach because things like the wall lasers prevent you from recklessly teleporting around. That's the approach to design that I should have used.
