Yeah, unfortunately I didn't have enough time to develop a system which slowly introduced the mechanics instead of throwing the player into the proverbial deep end. I'll keep in mind how long those take to develop and, more importantly, how crucial they can be to a good player experience for next time though!
If it wasn't obvious, Papers Please influenced the design of this game quite a bit, and originally I'd wanted to have the rulebook be a physical thing that you could drag up from the bottom of the screen, but for time's sake I ended up with a UI element that conflicted with the email. For a future version, though, I think that would be a great goal to aim for.
That's a really fun idea! I was going to try and get a system to start simple and add more rules over time as a stretch goal, but time didn't work in my favor there unfortunately.
