Hello! We're very grateful for the kind words, and that you enjoyed the game.
How did the game freeze for you? It's a known bug (but a nasty one) where the game freezes at the start of the game when skipping dialogues too fast during the wake up sequence.
Reaching a deadline is always a bit cutting corners, and we just rolled with some things like the maze, focusing on stability first. I hope you'll replay it once I've ironed out the wake up freeze bug and made the maze more playable :).
Adding a little shadow is a great idea which I'll be sure to experiment with later today.