I love this! Thank you for your honest feedback! There is a way to get out of the notepad by pressing ESC, I should have added a little hint to ensure players knew that, I would love to re-create this for a full 30+ minute game after the Jam with a story line to it which I originally had planned, and I understand everything you said! My fiancé mentioned during development it was a tad too dark and to adjust the brightness of the lanterns or something else, Which I did but when it came to building the client I shrinked the lights and textures down massively to make sure it was small enough to fit in the zip folder and to be uploaded onto itch (it probably would have worked without the lights being shrunk to be honest), but when I come back to this in a couple of week I'll use your comment and others as a building ground to ensure the full release is much better than the Game Jams version!
thank you for taking the time to play and rate it as well!