It took me a few minutes to realize what was happening (it's been a while since I've played a game like this), but once I did, it was fun figuring out how to best approach a given scenario. I played through about 15 rooms, and none of them felt insurmountable.
I'm not sure what your plans are for the colors, but if you keep the red and blue, I think the purple (that is, where the attack ranges overlap) doesn't contrast enough with the black background, so it was sometimes hard for me to tell whether I was safe from being attacked if I moved.
It's more challenging than it looks. There were a few times during the game I played that the AI took advantage of opportunities I accidentally created. The announcer was an unexpected but hilarious touch.
Great concept. I think what works particularly well is your implementation of the poison mechanic. It's an ever-growing threat, but its rate allowed me to make (or at least feel like I was making) informed decisions about how long to stay in a certain room or where to go, which is preferable to the "get here or die" approach of other games.
The only thing I'd change is to either make the other slimes faster or slow the player down to increase the chances of being stopped. I made it a point to keep moving rather than linger in one spot or area, but I only ran into two or three over the course of an entire round.
I like how you have the opportunity to go out and observe how enemies move and behave, so that when you return to the tree, you have an idea of how to best defeat them.
I appreciate the visual feedback during each step of the bottling process. I'm able to focus on doing things quickly rather than wondering if I'm doing them correctly.
I like the organized hack feature. My one complaint about the game is that if hackers/tech cost non-whole amounts to hire, then the amount of money you have should update to display those non-whole amounts. I thought the game was broken when I hit 1K because it took a lot of clicking for it to reach 2K (and thus inform me that the game was fine).
I love games with unorthodox control schemes, as I think they end up being some of the most creative (and rewarding). This one is reminiscent of DK: King of Swing, and not just because there's an ape in it ( it's a Game Boy Advance game that uses two buttons, one for each of Donkey Kong's hands). I like how you made the things you can grab stand out from the rest of the level.
I didn't realize that I had to mash the spacebar, so at first, I thought the game was unresponsive to my input. I enjoyed it after I figured it out. Great pixel art.
It was fun once I figured out what to do (my fault for not reading the controls on the game's page). The only issue that stood out to me was that at the beginning, I was able to destroy some drones before they appeared on-screen, and that was before I knew what I was firing at.
I could see myself playing this on my phone. I thought that the use of R, G, and B was neat, but their placement on the keyboard makes the game a little awkward to play.
