My god was this stressful, the combination of rocks breaking, feeling so close, yet missing just a few coal and the entity staring at you for a moment before retreating to the shadow was so good for creating atmosphere!
The sound design also kept me on edge despite it probably just being strange sounds on a random timer haha, great work!
That is exactly how experience was intended. Also yeah, those sounds are randomly pooled out of 20 different, this technique is called ambient sounds.
Also excited to see that you beat it. Even myself who knows the algorithm inside out beat it like 1/10 times.
Did you find the map useful or did you use the grace time to kamikaze to exit?
I did manage to beat it on my second try too!