Unique concept and direction, love that. Mind you, since my team's project had an unexpected twist with one of our core components not provided by a teammate. Its barebones to what it should be. Though some bit of the story is still there. Here you can see it https://darknight10982.itch.io/lysteria
Yes (was building when the deadline had passed), we did for the above reasons.. had to then just make some level coherence done with the hours leading to it.
I thought of making a test build before but cancelled it with the great amount of work to be done (and yes first builds take less time I just built a similar project and felt good with its speed). I've updated the page with more info, tho.