aaaaa thank you sm for the kind words!! <3 and OMG you made a video that's so cool!!! watching gameplays of things i've made is always so unreal haha, like a playthrough?? that a person made?? because they like my game??? haha it's so awesome. and i hope your video idea goes well, you're really good at commenting while playing and i enjoyed your vid a lot! :D
i'm really sorry the first game was laggy for you, it was very much NOT intentional. guess tunnel vision made me think "well if my laptop can run 10 parallel events at the same time, i guess any other can as well!" lol. should really get a playtester instead of trying to do everything myself, i'm definitely bound to miss bugs and stuff (partly why i made the skip mechanic). i'm glad that's the only big glitch you found though haha.
i can't believe you couldn't tell the practically imperceptible difference of 1 pixel between the Hs and Ws in the dev notes, smh! (jk XD) real talk tho, i made that font myself and trying to make recognisable letters in a 3x5 grid is pretty tricky, so i'm not surprised some letters look too similar haha. i'll keep practising though!
your "every game feels completely different and also like a natural next step" comment is so nice omg- one of the most fun things i've discovered in my game devving journey is that i have literally no clue what i'll feel like doing next. making something extremely different which each game has been super fun, and it's really helped me build confidence as a dev :> and at the same time i apparently just really like escalating my ambitions with every project haha (this is the first time i've made a full ost wooo!)
(edit: the sound i used for the gramophone is a recording of "au clair de la lune", i linked the video i took it from in my reply to abra's comment!)
thank you for playing! <3