Yo. Yo. Do something with this. I know that I'd love to work on something with a unique spark like this, and I've just started playing with effects like this myself, so this was inspiring to see. Small nitpick for the scope of this small project (not sure if you'd consider it a demo or just what could potentially be part of a larger experience) - perhaps consider inverting text color or something so that it'll always be visible without adding normally-fine black textboxes (I say, "normally-fine" because I feel that it'd be quite easy to intrude upon the artstyle, and a black rectangle would likely do just that).
Thanks for sharing your experience with us. :)
Games can be so much, and I know that I'll be taking this to help mitigate my personal fear of releasing smaller games which I know can be so valuable as short experiences, even if I never do anything with them.