Nice and active shooting game! A bit more text about the game play may be helpful for the player. It took me a while to realize that when two octopuses collide they become a big, target-searching one. Probably because it always happened off-screen in the part where I was not shooting the small ones :)
It's not clear when / why a next level is reached; the counter just increments. I did not get to the end unfortunately. Maybe if the health was reset at each level?
Yeah, I planned on having a small tutorial for the first level or two. Ideally with a cut scene showing the merge. There are a ton of gameplay tweaks and juice I was hoping to add. The level system currently is supposed to work increase every minute OR twenty seconds of play with no merges(It broke a bit at some point). Every time the level increases the spawn rate increases for the first 5 levels, and then the hitpoints increase by 50% for the last 5 levels. I intended it to be self-regulating for difficulty, since the better you are the faster it increases. I agree that the feedback for the player is lacking there. I had pretty limited time during the week. I did learn a ton though, and I'm pretty sure I will be able to get more done in half the time next jam. Thanks for the feedback!
