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Nice work!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1137051,"author_name":"Okean","author_uid":"okean","epoch":1744186709,"text":"Quite fun to play. I would like the difficulty to increase over depth","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1137978,"author_name":"NTMalichi","author_uid":"ntmalichi","epoch":1744201594,"text":"Cute little game! I think it is not punishing enough - I felt like I could stay in the red for way too long \/ take too many hits before dying. Like the only reason I did die eventually is by intentionally going into the red and checking out if I'm invincible or not","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1138041,"author_name":"HDVR02","author_uid":"hdvr02","epoch":1744202460,"text":"The game is good, but lacks progression and a little more variety","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1138447,"author_name":"Ilinx","author_uid":"ilinx","epoch":1744208209,"text":"Cool and simple, could be expanded upon! 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Shooting wasn't really useful since you could just spam it but other than that a great game!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1141014,"author_name":"LDJam user 372150","author_uid":"372150","epoch":1744242165,"text":"Pretty fun! I basically have similar notes to other comments here. Could use something in progression, whether that be theme changes, speed increase, etc. The red wall doesn't really feel like a threat after the first 15 seconds or so. But otherwise, I really like the art and particle effects. I think they could have done with more variation but that's understandable. What you have here looks really good!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1142555,"author_name":"toilari","author_uid":"toilari","epoch":1744283429,"text":"Simple mechanics, easy to learn and quite fun! 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