I've been looking forward to this one, because Dee and I are the only two authors that have entered all three Adventuron game jams. Dee writes really good games, but, oh dear, I was disappointed by this one.
I played version 0.1.1.
I didn't like the font because there's insufficent spacing (technically leading) between lines. This makes it very hard to read. Fortunately, this is only noticeable in the intro and win messages. Either change the font, use lower case or see if there's a setting in Adventuron that allows you to increase the spacing between lines. (I think there is.)
It has a nice colour scheme and separator, but I would say that because I'm an Aussie and green and gold are our national colours.
"Rival" should be a synonym for "goblin" in the warmup area.
You should be able to refer to the gold and silver coins as "gold" and "silver" respectively, to avoid the awkward Adventuron disambiguation menu every time you refer to them as "coin". Even if you cheat and use three-word input (such as EXAMINE SILVER COIN), you still get the disambiguation menu, implying that the adjective is not included in the object ID.
Being a goblin, I thought I might be able to PAY or BRIBE OFFICIAL. Not so. Little did I know that there would turn out to be so many officials.
"Icecream" (one word) on menu and in object description, but "ice cream" (two words) in response when you buy it. I think it should be the latter.
EXAMINE HURDLES says "Official-looking goblin." I don't think that's right!
When you attach or remove springs, shoes are removed. They should remain worn if previously worn.
There weren't really any major bugs, but I found this game really repetitive and tedious to play. There are ten events with one official at each and a couple of others in the changing rooms. You have to TALK OFFICIAL to enter an event, then type 1, then TALK OFFICIAL again if it's a draw, then TALK OFFICIAL again when you think you've got everything you need to retry, then type 1, then TALK OFFICIAL again if you didn't have the right things or you forgot to wear something, then TALK OFFICIAL again to retry again, then type 1 and so on ad infinitum. And you have to repeat this for all 10 events, plus TALK OFFICIAL to get some directions in the changing rooms. God knows how many times I typed TALK OFFICIAL, but it must have been several hundred. Please, please, please just let me enter RUN or JUMP or THROW JAVELIN or whatever I need to do to compete.
When you compete and it's a dead heat, you have to TALK OFFICIAL twice before you can compete again, even if you've done other things in the meantime. First TALK is to get him to tell you that it was a heat. Second TALK is to start again.
Unfortunately, I headed north from the start and basically travelled anti-clockwise around the events. I did not discover the coach until I had tried competing (and failed) in every single event. It was only then that I discovered the coach had hints for all events, but this was another painful exercise. TALK COACH, type YES, get menu, select 1. TALK COACH, type YES, get menu, select 2. TALK COACH, type YES, get menu, select 3. And so on up to 10. I hate menued input systems at the best of times, but this one was a real pain. And I had to keep extensive notes to remember which hint related to which event.
I'm sorry if this sounds negative, because you had a really interesting idea with some interesting puzzles. None of them were particularly hard, especially once I had discovered the areas to the north, west, and especially south of the warmup area. I know you were short of time and this may have had an impact on the game. If you've got time after the jame, do you think you could revisit it?