I definitely can't take all the credit for this, it was totally a small team effort to get all the models, music/sound, and writing done (I'm just the programmer!)
I'm so happy you liked the visuals, they were definitely the thing we spent the most time on, and I feel like the end credit scenes are the part that connect with the theme, so I'm not sure if you got that far? thank you for all the feedback on mechanics though, that's very constructive!
the escape button problem is absolutely something that came up in testing, unfortunately just a few hours before deadline, so there wasn't time to implement a solution before upload, but we will roll out a patch after the jam is over!