I am happy that you enjoyed it! I was thinking of coming up with a way to show how much of progress you have done like on osu! and DDR that you have a bar that fills up by how you perform.
I loved flailing the arms around too, even if there were no potions to grab. The coordination was part of the initial idea I got of "mixing" your arms around to collect things while your character climbed a tree. During that brain storm I thought on how about I made it that instead he mixed potions too. So that is how the game transformed. I was gonna add a moment where you moved the joysticks down to grab the cauldron and mix it left and right to the rhythm, but I didn't get the time to implement it.
I am going to continue working on this outside of the Game Jam since I see that people like you are really enjoying it and that motivated me a lot!
I appreciate a lot for you taking your time to play it! Thank you!