Hi! Thank you so much for the kind words! I'm glad you enjoyed the game as far as you got! I'm just wondering; what kind of gamepad were you using? I've set up the new unity input system to take left stick from any gamepad, but it seems there's some controllers where the stick doesn't seem to register properly. If you decide to get back into the game, who knows, would you be able to try the key rebinding panel to see if the way we set up our input system recognizes stick up and down at all? I'd gladly appreciate it!
As for the theme, I see where you're coming from! Our decision to enter was actually sort of last-minute, we ran into the jam on itch and we were like "Want to just go for it?" and that's what we did. We did have some plans for the game that would've most likely be more related to "makeshift" (such as picking up parts/blocks of the boss and using those to essentially put build/craft a weapon which you'd use to finally defeat the boss with), but it turned out a bit too big of a scope, sadly!
Either way, thank you for your comment, looking forward to try yours over the weekend, I believe I've seen some of your progress messages on the discord and have added your game to my watchlist since :D