Thanks for the feedback! I'll definitely try to do a better job with gameplay clarity and properly directing the player in the future.

Yes, the function of the spacebar is to let you "dash" to get away from the monsters. It also lets you move through walls to make it easier to get behind cover.

Each time you collect a bunny in the overworld, it follows you around. Dashing expends one of the bunnies, so your remaining dashes are measured by how many bunnies are following you.

As for getting yourself stuck in the starting area by using your last dash to get back in, I, uh... didn't think of that. It seems super obvious now that you've pointed it out. Whoops!

Thank you for the feedback! If I end up fleshing out the game more in the future, I'll be sure to keep a better eye on making sure the player's objective is clear.

The goal was supposed to be to find all 5 of the bunnies in the dreamworld. There isn't an objective after that, and since I didn't have time to add an ending, there isn't an indication that you've "won" once you collect them all.

I'm glad you liked the spritework! While I have some art experience, this was my first time doing pixel art and animation, so it was an interesting challenge figuring out how to make it look roughly how I wanted in an unfamiliar format.

To be honest, the screen size and vision radius were chosen pretty arbitrarily. In retrospect, I could have sized the game window to leave less black space at the edges and maybe zoomed everything in a bit to compensate. That sort of thing hadn't even occurred to me during development--I was too busy frantically trying to get the game to a state of "technically playable" before the deadline.