Every 5 seconds, the arrow keys seem to do something completely different

Well, once the knife rotates flat on the ground, its rotation alongside Y axis changes, and therefore directions of movement change. It's a bug that I intended to leave in the game.

 It ended up that by stage 6 or so, the arrow keys would just not do anything. I don't know whether it's a bug or a feature. 

That's a bug, when your knife don't touch the ground you cannot move, knew about it before the release but I didn't have time to fully investigate and fix it.

Thanks for playing, and for the feedback.

EDIT:

Regarding:

You can't hold down buttons; you have to keep on pressing them.

Well, movement is not physics-based and is calculated every frame, so OnKeyDown was the only option.  I could change the way it is in the future, without major changes movement while the key is hold down would be a mess, especially on higher framerates.

But I get your point.

Thanks for the feedback!

"but the movement was completely unintuitive"

Well, isn't it the point of this jam to create silly things?  ;p

Changing movement axis (for example moving forward when using the key to go left) wasn't an intended feature, but seeing that it evolved from implementing various movement mechanics I was happy to leave it in the game, adding a bit of "crappiness" to it. 

I tried my best to reduce the amount of possible bugs, however checking every possible knife permutation was hard, if not to say impossible in the given time frame. There are some cases when you get stuck with no option of moving, but during development there were waaaay more.

Anyways, thanks for playing!

I realised that it wasn't obvious enough so I added brief description in the  'info for voters' field.

Intended to make a score counter, but with descriptions like 'less than zero' or 'pretty bad' instead of numbers, but didn't have enough time to do it.

Anyways, thanks for the feedback and glad that you enjoyed the game!

Really like the retro look/style of the game!

Glad to hear that you like the game :)

If you will want to ask something in the future, feel free to do so.

It's weird, I am also using W10 64-bit and I can run the game by downloading .zip with no problem.

The game's .exe should be named PaltryDuckHunt.exe and should be located in the .zip's main directory alongside with _Data folder.

Try to download zip from https://itch.io/jam/so-bad-its...

If it STILL doesn't work, I higly recommend to download the itch app - https://itch.io/app and head to the game page there. It automaticly downloads and updates games that you have in the library.

Cheers!

the technology isn't there yet

FYI you can drive/fly - just press E when near the vehicle, you steer both the helicopter and cars with WASD or Arrow Keys.