Hello,
thanks for your reply.
Yes, the loading even takes a while on my machine. I load almost all assets at the beginning, unfortunately you can't go back to the title screen, then it wouldn't be a problem when you lose. This will be something I have to address with an upcoming release. There is also a lot of potential for optimisations in the basic code. It may help to increase the frame rate on your system. 12 frames is indeed very low, but this information helps me to judge how much effort to spend making it playable on slower machines. I might come up with some options to reduce some things, like sounds played at the same time etc.
However, I'm happy that it doesn't feel like that :o)