This is an awesome game. I had a blast playing, and almost made it to the end. The art is so unique and I loved the drawing/erasing animations you had on everything. How did you do that??
I was a little confused at first how to “attack” given there was no enemy on the board, took a bit to understand attacking the board did damage.
For balancing, I found healing was very sparse, I managed to get +5 hp gem but it barely counteracted the damage I was taking. My biggest issue was, as far as I could tell, no way to get rid of items, either permanently, or from your 3 combat slots. I found shield pretty useless, maybe thats because I was against several ghosts, but they didn’t really provide much in those fights. Sometimes I would have use for 1x1 items, but I had no where to place 1x2 or 2x2 items. Moving items for stamina would also be a cool idea in order to make space for larger items.
This is a really polished game. I’d love to see you take this further. The concept is great, just needs some more work! Great job, one my favourites so far.