Really great game! It looks good! The pacing feels great. There's a lot of content. I had a bit of difficulty following the provided ingame instructions, but the game was pretty intuitive so it didn't matter that much.
Small note, I think I may have found a small bug? There was a time I managed to start a furnace with three iron and remove an item at the same time? I still was able to make a shield, and somehow ended up holding an extra piece of raw iron? (was playing the web build if it matters). Didn't really break the gameplay or anything. Was just strange.
I really liked the scaling of the game and the introduction of each new item. That worked really nice. If there was one thing I could have different, it would be to be able to place down items that I'm holding rather than having to throw them away. There were a couple of times that I wanted to go work on some other part that was in progress and hold on to something until later and just was unable to do that.
I liked how I was generally able to multitask as that allowed me to have some levels where I could complete most if not all of the tasks. Not being able to do that for the anvil was a nice touch as that does technically require someone to sit there and actually do something. The ending credits with the pan up from the smithy was also a really neat way to handle that element.
Really well put together and super impressive for a 9 day game jam!
- Jedi