Interesting idea, and honestly I think for a more full fledged game going a way of like "visual" ZORK I think would be something you guys may want to do, if you feel like expanding on this game. Anyways yeah I agree with the TheStoreman on that minor bit of polish.
Also for whatever reason the UI does not seem to scale correctly to my aspect ratio (16:10), although the game does. Game otherwise looks like it works fine.
The little extra stuff on the left is because I have two monitors and PrintScreen captures both of them like this.