I think this game jam theme is just bad, over 90% of the submissions have nothing to do with the theme, I think thats on the theme and not on the participants. This is a solid endless runner framework, needs collectables, powerups, a reason to want to continue playing beyond jumping and ducking, solid first pass.
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Thanks for the feedback and ideas for improvement! Yeah, my friend artist and I threw it together the last weekend, we kept the scope deliberately small. We already have some ideas for next version, some sort of collectibles on a harder path are definitely on the menu :)
Oh, about the theme: I understood it as a horror theme / setting, not necessarily that the game needs to be in the horror genre. It’s a auto runner in a horror setting. Not very scary though, agreed :)