Hey, thanks so much for playing!! The feedback is greatly appreciated! Yeah, those definitely seem to be some of the most recurring difficulties for people so far. It's been great thinking about those issues and how I could've, and might in the future, try to fix them...
You're totally right, both the shard-hunting bit and the time loop idea were things I wanted to be a big part of the game, but ended up being barely developed as ideas and not very well, either. The shard-hunting thing in particular ended up feeling like kind of an obtuse barrier if you don't know what you're looking for. Definitely would rework that now if I could! xD
I was able to put in like 2-3 hours in on most weekdays and a couple 6+ hour stints on weekends!! It's amazing how much goes into even a simple project, haha. It was my first attempt at a game that didn't use pixel art, so when I wasn't sweating bullets while writing down as many dumb jokes as I could think of I was frantically trying to get my doodles to look good enough to put in the game xD
Thanks for being interested (and giving me an excuse to ramble, lol)!!