The game was rushed since I started it all on AI and then build the models all alone. In the end I had to build the puzzles and maybe balance the gameplay difficulty.
It endeup ok but for someone who never saw the game it got really “complex”. I only saw how hard it was when a guy from twitch played the game.
The flow of the game isn’t clear at first so I really needed to add a sample level before actually putting the player in the heat (the level I hate so much in games: Tutorial).
For me, I don’t really care about tutorials since I always played random when kid, but people have standards and mostly they must understand your game. The fork, the puzzles and the light switches aren’t clear and that’s something I didn’t put a lot of effort into explaining to the players and the whole “flow” of the game is flawed because of that.
Conclusion is that the game is good and the gameplay is fun, but new players just can’t undestand in less than 5min and that’s a big flow in the design. Taking into account I tried to make all that alone I think is a win but as a game you deliver for people, it lacks tutorials.
About the door handle puzzle, all you need to do is move your mouse quickly sideways (left-right or vice-versa). The concept idea for that takes into account switching lights off to gain a few time + you’re thriving to escape the hotel. Since you found a fork then you might try to open that door in any way possible; Since your input to the door is your mouse, the motion on the mouse(sideway movement) is the equivalent “desperate” you would have in that situation… So on trying to explain the little details, the idea is that your input on the mouse reflects the “rush” the character has to open the door.
Next time just try to move is sideways and that would be easier (the same with the storage room which is somewhat hidden into players view but it’s there).