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Hi Loucsam. You can actually discard pallets and crates you pick up by mistake by interacting with the pile of broken pallets or crates next to the front door. There's a Continue option in the main menu if you'd like to give it another go. If not, that's cool too! Thanks for giving my game a try 🙂

Congrats! Haven't actually seen Buffet Knight yet, so I'll have to check that out sometime.

Like the above person (or maybe a couple above me now), I also used the free event version for the jam. While I won't be finishing or refining my game *after* the jam, I did spend as much time as I could after submissions closed (and before the free event version of MZ expired) to do just that! It was only an extra week, but I think I was able to get in the rest of the content my partner and I had planned for the game, as well as give the game a much needed touch-up. It's still a super-short game, but I'm a lot happier with it now than I was when I originally submitted it. Like you, I also plan on uploading this updated version later. In any case, I don't plan on updating it anymore even if I do purchase a copy of MZ later.

For me, it was time management. Both my partner and I work fulltime, so we had limited time to work on our game jam game. On top of that, we made the decision to start a little late... All that to say, time management was going to play a very key role in the development of our game, and was not handled as well as it could have been. I spent a week after the jam's deadline polishing my game before it reached a point where I was happy with it, and I can't help thinking "could everything I did this week have been done before the deadline if I had managed my time better?" The answer is most definitely "yes".

Thanks, I put the feedback to good use! The free event version of MZ has just expired, but I think I was able to smooth out and improve a lot of things before it did. I'm looking forward to uploading this new version of my game once uploads are re-enabled!

Thanks! I watched your playthrough of the game. Glad to see you enjoyed it!

I've since updated the game, but can't upload the new version while voting is in progress. While I don't want to outright leave the solution to the puzzle in the comments below my game, I will at least leave you with the additional hints I added. In the new version, there is now dialogue where Amelia tells Noah that they already tried 1) matching the shapes to the holes and 2) ignoring the puzzle entirely. From this, Noah gathers that he must *not* match the shapes to the holes, and cannot ignore the puzzle.

No worries, you're not the only one who got stuck there. It's working as intended, as far as I can tell, so I'm thinking I might need to add additional hints. Thanks for the play!