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Thank you for the game!

I am not a very good puzzle player, so I was unable to finish it. I've deciphered the name of the company CEO and got to his page, but failed to understand where to apply the cipher from it.  This was too dramatic jump in conceptual difficulty for me.  But I can’t say with absolute confidence that this was the game's fault, since solution might have been just around the corner and I have missed it.

The idea of presenting crucial game info throug separate files is really interesting! I found myself organizing screen space of my laptop into a make-believe research desk, as I divided it into sections to  see both game and notes windows at the same time. This provided game with a sort of 'found footage' quality. The dicision to include in-game player character and narrate exposition through the cutscene worked somewhat against this effect, though: on the one hand, I was myself figuring out the clues that were physically present on my laptop, and on the other game assumed that I had to project myself onto the image of some hard-boiled noire P.I. on the screen, as he rummaged through the clues in his office. I felt a dissonance between these to narrative poles and think that game would benefit greately if it would consistently adhere to only one of them.  What if, say, the executable file of the game was framed as a kind of database you have to navigate through, and notes - as email that you recieve from the unknown source? This would shift focus further from the game as a self-contained digital object, and emphasise that player herself is an in-game character. 

In any way, thanks again and keep up the good job!

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thank you so much for your feedback<3

As for the research note it seems that no one was able to solve it, so it is likely my fault.

so I'm gonna tell everyone how to get through it: so SPOILER ALERT!

When you search the kicked CEO's name you will get his only public post, which will say "FIRST WORD OF THE FIRST LINE... SECOND WORD OF THE SECOND LINE..."  you are supposed to continue reading the same way. as in 3ed word 3ed line, 4th word 4th line and so on. (In the research note that is)

I should have given a better hint but oh well.