Thanks for your feedback! This was most of the team's first project and many merge errors happened! One of the programmers had a really cool version of the boss, but unfortunately, it wasn't merged correctly and I had about an hour to fix the minimum viable product's boss. That aside, if I were more of a programmer for this project rather than the sound designer, I'd have loved to have added much more! 

The music I composed for this was also all used in different contexts than originally composed for. The home music was more expected for inside the home rather than outside, the "forest" music was meant for more of a dense forest where you'd progress through many enemies and the boss music was originally supposed to be music for attacking or sneaking your way though the bandit hideout. 

Thank you for playing!

We had three programmers sign on before the jam. In reality, real-life had other plans. Aside from the Game jam menu and a few patches by Plide, I did the programming alone while learning the engine with almost no prior experience. The other two programmers were present for brainstorming though.

One of our early design decisions was to emulate the Sega Genesis. I took that to mean "no explicit tutorial." Funny you should mention a progression obstacle, because a training dummy was in the works --we even have the art for it-- but coding the boss took priority. Even the boss's distinct second phase got the axe due to time constraints.

Level design fell to me, and a level designer I am not (yet?).

True that! I ended up submitting on behalf of the team very last minute despite being unfinished because otherwise, we wouldn't have had this submitted!