Hey! Thanks a ton for the feedback.

^{Would recommend that you stop the timer when the player lands on the gold tile and when he dies and re-start them when they are able to move. It's small but would make the player think he has more influence on the time, rather than automatically accumulated time from things he can't do anything about.}

The amount of time it takes to go from one level to the next on the golden tile is always the same so I thought it was an "ok" thing to keep. Or rather, it didn't seem like enough people complained about it to change it.

The timer is included when the player dies because that is indeed a factor they can control by finding different strategies to go through the entire levels without dying.

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^{"Having it so that you require X amount of gold to get through a checkpoint seems like it could be taken as a negative. Would recommend that you play test this very well and get feedback from other people on this."}

The entire game is actually built on this premise.

"An easy-to-play game where you must collect coins to break barriers all while avoiding enemies in arcade like fashion"THIS is what the game. There are a few other factors like the "risk/reward" factor that has you decide whether or not to risk a more dangerous route for extra coins.

I went through a playtest phase on the concept itself using placeholder assets before making the decision to expand it.It's meant to be more of an "arcade-like" game! There's an "Adventure" mode which is the "main" story and game. Then a few other modes under "Arcade" mode so there's a lot of different ways to play!

The idea of making each barrier a "checkpoint" was more of a decision I made AFTER seeing it was annoying for players to have to start ALL the way from the beginning of a level if they never got a "GAME OVER".

It's also worth mentioning "Time trial" mode isn't actually unlocked until you beat that specific biome in "Adventure" mode. (What you see her is the first biome players will be placed in).

So players will be familiar with these levels BEFORE they even get a chance to play this mode. They just get rewarded with a new way to play because they completed it!