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Thanks! Oh I absolutely had fun. I've discovered a love for pixel art that I didn't know I had. 

Then there's the writing part. I've only ever written narrative-essay style stories, so having a visual medium to replace the descriptions, while conveying exposition and emotions exclusively through dialogues and expressions was a unique experience. 

I don't know how well I managed to execute on those things, but I tried XD

Can't promise that I'll come back to it, though I really want to. This time around I had the excuses of limited time and lack of experience, which let me set aside my concerns. But if I come back to it later,  I'd want to do the song justice. And for that, I'm gonna need to go on a whole training arc XD

If I do tweak things, it'd mostly be adding storylines for the other shades, and having them affect the mazes. And of course, exploring more of the little side-story Shiorin and Kronii have going on. Maybe different endings if you rely too much on Kronii and she overuses her powers. 

Thanks for trying it out, I'm glad people at least liked the story, though it ended up way different that intended XD

So, about the map... this is what happened:

The original plan (that I failed to execute on, partly due to time, largely due to skill-issue) involved you running around and talking to the other shades between your sleep sessions (which would remain the main progression mechanic). Talking to a shade would give you dialogue or action choices that would make the mazes easier or harder. 

I kinda had them added since the beginning, but couldn't do anything with them in time. I considered implementing the interaction mechanics during the grace period, but the shades' individual storylines would've ended up lackluster, and introduced countless soft-locks that I would not have had the time to find and fix. So I just left it alone.

Ironically, a soft-lock scenario SOMEHOW made it through, anyway XD

Thanks for having the patience to try to make it work for that long! My bad on that ;-;

The few people who played during the grace period were able to find the sleeping mechanic, so I thought it didn't need more clarification. But I realize now it's not clear at all XD

I still haven't the slightest idea what's causing the interaction bug, it should NOT be possible :D

Ah, I didn't make it obvious so that's on me. The darkness doesn't help either...

Just above where you enter the second area, there's a shade (it's the same one, but you can't really tell because they look the same XD)

Talk to him a couple times, and then you get access to the sleep mechanic. Convoluted, I know. Sorry ;-;

Note: When you can't sleep anymore, just go back to talk to him again. 

WTHelly. There should be no connection between those things... 0-0

First comment, thanks, I kneel! <3

Could you tell me the situations that lock you out? If it's fixable, the grace period is still going (I think?) XD