Man, the game is really well made. It's really hard to believe it's this team's first gamejam. Just seeing your page we can feel the game was made with great effort and love. Congratulations!
About the game, I felt it was a really too hard, as a strategic game, I was struggling to think which card was best to use, my thoughs was just to play fast and not get consumed by lava.
Yeah, we wanted to create a tension between strategic play but also fast decision making under pressure. We didn't have a ton of time to balance the game and it may have ended up a little TOO fast paced. It's definitely possible to learn patterns and get better, one of our programmers can regularly beat the game, but judging by our comments it's a bit inhospitable for new players. Thanks for your input!
