Thanks for your feedback! I don't know if I get you wrong, but the batteries do respawn. There are multiple spawn locations in the maze where one of the three items can spawn (in fact, the items spawn randomly at these locations, but they have some spawn chance. Batteries have the highest chance to spawn, though).

A riddle would be cool, I agree. I also though abot some items that indicate a path or something, but that would have taken way too much time, because that would need an implementation of a pathfinding algorithm, which I am not familiar with yet. But if I ever plan to create a remake / extension of the game, this is a cool idea to consider! Thank you. :)

Hi. Thanks for your comprehensive feedback and concerns! The batteries actually take up 3 seconds per battery, but I agree with you, they seem to decay really fast. About the ways: Yes, only two ways are connected to the exits, one way is just leading nowhere (where you basically run in a circle). However, this is a bit boring, because I was not able to add a "lose condition" in the time, so basically if you run long enough in the maze, you will eventually find an exit. But yeah, two of the three ways in the center of the maze (your spawn location) lead to the three possible exits, one is basically a dead end.

Sorry for the late reply, but thank you very much! Yes, the horror style was actually not intended and just developed over the time while I was making the game. I guess it could have been a "full horror game" if it was my intention to do so. :)

Thanks for your feedback! Yes, I have though about that, but due to lack of time, I chose to not implement this feature for the game jam. Maybe I will add an updated version after the jam is officially over, but I am not sure yet. 

Thank you! I like it too. :)

Thank you for your feedback! I am glad you liked it and you made it to the exit. 🥳

Thank you! Yes, as I mentioned in another comment, I accidently broke the "skip-behavior" a few hours before release.

Thanks for your feedback! Yes, the walls were subject to be changed, as they are still in the state from by prototyping, but due to lack of time, I was not able to change the texture.

Thank you for your feedback! Yes, adding enemies or something else to the maze would be cool, as it would also add up to the concerns of Cody in the dialog ("I don't know what's out there", "I am too scared to leave alone."). But the initial idea was actually not to make the game as mystic and horror-ish as it is now, that was more of a spontaneous decision. Therefore, I did not have enough time left to make it a "real" horror game or add some enemies or jump scares.

Thanks!

Thank you, I appreciate your feedback! 

Thanks! I agree, my initial idea was a timer that teleports you back to the center of the maze (the spawn area) after three seconds and clock items that increase the timer by three seconds per item. But this was way to hard and also killed the fun of the game, so I switched to the batteries. But I understand that the theme is barely noticable.

Thank you for your feedback! Yes, I agree. I actually changed the dialog system a few hours before deadline, so that it is animated. With this rework, the option to skip through all of the texts was accidently removed and I did not notice this on time. 

Thanks for your feedback! Yeah, I think it got a bit hard in the end. When I started developing the game, it was way too easy, because you could basically see all walls that are in your view field. I tried to counter this by making the lit area around the player relatively small.

Thank you!

Thanks!