When I played the game, I haven't expected there will be: 1) Blood 2) Shed.

Hello! Welcome to Feedback Quest 6! My name's Hythrain, and I'm one of the hosts and streamers for this event! This feedback is being written live on my stream.

This game left me confused at first. You start in a hedge maze where nothing can be interacted with. This then continues into the next area which is a... dungeon? Then you get a little room where you'd think you could interact with the book on the table, but no. It's only AFTER leaving this third area and starting in the basement of the house that you finally start to get items you can interact with.

With that said, there was a lot of things to hunt down and a lot of things that Rosemary could talk about. I wasn't sure how I felt about the idea of Rosemary talking with the narrator, since that felt rather fourth wall breaking. Then again, once things started to get scary she then said "I don't like this game" as if she knows she's in a video game, so...

With that said, it felt odd you had an option to keep dashing on yet there was no ability to do so.

I can see a lot of spookiness with this title, but that beginning felt weird to me. Like it didn't feel like it belonged in the demo. That's about it.

I am completely stuck, right at the beginning, and I can't tell if it's a me problem or a design problem. Once I get to the house, I can't go into the basement or attic without light, I can't open the shed, I have a silver key that doesn't open anything, and I can't leave the house because my character says "I'm still having fun exploring." I know there's supposed to be a lighter somewhere, but I've checked every accessible square and not found it or anything else that could help me progress. I went as far as digging through the game files, but that didn't tell me anything either, besides the fact that there was clearly more content beyond what I could access.

Is there something wrong with my game/download, or am I just dumb? (For additional context, I'm playing on Windows and using the Windows download)

This really is a nice start for a classic, rpgmaker exploration/puzzle game.  I really like how you used the setting, music, and sound effects to create a calming, empty, intriguing, yet slightly disturbing mood all the way through. The puzzles weren't hard, and they help move and set up the pace very well. Although, when they were tricky, I wondered if I discover a new bug or if I broke the game or not, since it's currently a work-in-progress. (This happened in a puzzle for a different rpgmaker game I tested; I did not find any bugs in your game fortunately.) The backdoor placement is, however, not very obvious, since the path from the toolshed to it is overgrown, but I think most players can figure it out. 

Honestly, when I first saw the blood after discovering the lighthouse, I did not expect it would be that kind of game. I feel like the lore in the demo so far makes it seem like it was a summer home that a family never went back to for a long while due to tragedies from war or illness, kind of like what happened in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse. Solemn and melancholy is what I am getting from this game, not full-on horror. Even the ghost which appeared seemed too playful. I hope the blood is there to suggest that there is a tragic backstory with the family, but that it isn't anything horrible or disturbing. But that is just me hoping; you can take it to any direction you want. 

Hi there,  I liked the art and color choices for this game and the music and SFX were very nice and complimentary. Unfortunately I got stuck a few times and I'm not entirely sure why. One point I was stuck behind the house and another time I got trapped cycling through the inventory items. From a mother's stand point I wonder why she's allowed to use a lighter but not a stove?  maybe a flashlight would be more appropriate line of logic if it's only purpose it to provide light. Also I found the narratoration to be a bit strange, and switch in tone, as it would sometimes say "You" referring to Rosemary and another time it seemed to talk to her directly in a teasing way? I could just be reading it wrong though. 

A very atmospheric demo. Writing is fun, being able to interact with so many things in the buildings really adds to the immersion. Charming UI as well!

One small issue I encountered with movement was: there is no way to turn in place. This made aligning to interact with certain items more difficult than it should be, especially that they don't very obviously conform to the grid that the player is constrained by (which is a good thing). It can also be related, but there's trouble with opening (otherwise open) doors when standing on an adjacent tile sideways to the door  and turning.

In the end it was only a minor inconvenience. The demo was fun! :D