Happy Sweep - Dusty on Duty

This is a DTJ36 GameJam submission... well actually, a late submission.
But even thought i can't be considered for prices i would like to hear your feedback and i am looking forward to play and rate the other submissions! <3

(should be working in browser, but better safe than sorry, the .exe is downloadable too)
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Additional tutorial info:

When you clean up an object you will gain a slight permanent speed upgrade + an upgrade depending on the already cleaned floor.

So you can decide if cleaning up objects first or cleaning up some floor is better, but since i didn't want to make this game a hurry and not added a timer, its up to you how to play it.

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The beautiful music is from lofidreams99 on pixabay. Found it during the jam and instantly knew it was perfect for this game.

Just to be clear, i didn't touched the game after the submission phase was over, thats a question of honor! 

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About the game making:

After hearing the theme "One room" i instantly thought of one roomba doing his tasks. So i stopped my Baldur's Gate 3 session and immediatly went to work.

Because at this moment i didn't know that i will focus on making this game for 36h straight without even sleeping.

1 hour in: Dusty (the robot) did his first moves

8 hours in: the interior design was finished, looking calm and relaxing

16 hours in:  making the "floor cleaning mechanic" was my main priority about this game, since i used a shader and shaders are my nemesis i need to overcome. It took some sweat and desperation but in the end i really liked the outcome.

19 hours in: i did a quick playtest in the browser to see the performance and it was kinda bad so i used the power of vector art to quick rescale everything to a lower resolution - and it was okayish but i also needed to optimize the game logic in the process

21 hours in: i felt like taking some time to create the titel image - since i always did that last and it always looked kinda rushed - so this time i wanted the titel image really harmonize with the game

29 hours in: a whole day was done but my focus was still up and it was time to create the art for the endscreen and somehow that took longer then i expected - maybe i was actually getting sleepy

33 hours in: when it comes to the logic of the endscreen i was figuring out how to uses image data to actually calculate results and during this process i was optimizing the game feeling and code overall

35 hours and 40 mins in: doing the audio by searching soundeffects and music (lofidreams99) on pixabay and cutting the effects to fit into the game

Last 20 mins: creating a quick tutorial, making it bug out the game, panic, fixing it and uploading the game to itch.io

But even if i was forgetting to submit it, i learned so many new things and feeling a bit more confident about using shaders and image data - and since that was my goal i am more than happy with the results.

And if you've read this text up to this line - thx to you, for listening to my words. <3