Wow very meta game ✨
As a fellow newbie I am impressed at how much stuff you guys pulled off on your first game! You guys even have a full on boss fight that was actually interesting, I'd suggest instead of color coding it have different SFX or Animation instead, would really fix the issue of confusion, I can tell you guys ran out of time to make better puzzles too, but you guys have the core mechaics already down, I can see some pretty clever and creative puzzles y'all could do.
Impressive stuff guys, keep it up!