Nice game concept and great graphics! The game looks complete and is very polished.

Hey there, I gave this entry a quick look but it seems to be a bit buggy, with the UI being somewhat unresponsive and eventually having the whole game crash to a white screen.

I did notice an error in the console, though the source is minimized so not sure how helpful it'll be:

TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'find')
     at $n (index.tsx:20)
     at oo (index.tsx:20)
     at Wo (index.tsx:20)
     at Ks (index.tsx:20)
     at El (index.tsx:20)
     at ql (index.tsx:20)
     at Dl (index.tsx:20)
     at Al (index.tsx:20)
     at index.tsx:20
     at a.unstable_runWithPriority (index.tsx:20)

It does seem like an interesting twist on a word find, though I think the inclusion of wildcard characters, especially ones that can be chained, eliminates most of the challenge: you can brute force entire levels by just putting a couple wildcards next to a valid starting letter and repeatedly drawing the same path.

Interesting concept and character design! I really like how you've fleshed out a whole world behind all this! Great job :)

I really enjoyed the puzzling. Then I noticed that you just can use many * after a starting letter. Nice game tho

Last minute stretch was quite something! I did not get the game submission to run when I first tried yesterday late at night. Luckily I had the time left to debug today after work. I could have maybe tried to do deploy the game a bit earlier :D