Very cool game! I liked the minimal style, and the sounds were effective! I like the expression of the characters with the speed of typing
I think I'm a bit daft with those kind of games, but I'll share where I had a hard time:
* The first 2 hints are very clear, but you need to move 1 room before executing them. That made me a bit paranoid
* The third hint is also seem really clear, but it's not clear to me what the ? stand for - does it just indicate the half life room? do you need to guess the door? or just go back down as the next symbol says. I acutally tried both and didn't get the shard
* The 4th note I got after several attempts - the hint fly by a bit fast and I skipped it by mistake the first time around
* Why is the fifth hint bottom up? If I would have missed the message on itch I would have never guessed this
I found 2/3 shards, and sadly haven't seen the ending :( It's a shame, because I enjoyed the writing, and would love to see more
It's interesting because our game had very similar idea for one of the levels, and we saw people stumble on it as well - it must be disorienting to be in neverending maze!