author=Waxius
Very cool Demo!
I really liked the animation you used when hitting the gong! Plus waking up the green monsters and having their noise affect your movement was a really nice touch.
The music is perfect in that it creates an eerie atmosphere and I'm expecting things to jump out at me.

All I can say.. is that I want to play more!

That's awesome. I'm glad you liked it.

author=Darken
Tried the demo, didn't understand the first puzzle at all. I thought I had to correspond the left room's tiles with the one I have set on the right room in a way that didn't involve me turning off the tiles from the south/north but then it didn't work. Also the left room seems to reset anyway when I leave the room. No clue what to do after those ideas.

Am aware it's a demo from june but just wanted to try it out.

Yeah other people have been confused by it as well. Should try to do something to explain it better or just simplify it. What you have to do is: Go to the right room and press the four buttons. Walk to the panel on the far right and activate it, move the tiles until they form a coherent path from right to left. Walk that path in the other room.

Yeah, I did some odd stuff with that beginning puzzle, like reversing the up/down states of the switches you should walk on. I think fixing that and maybe making an activation animation for the last panel to draw attention to it will fix most of the issues.
As for the spikes, I've been thinking about making hitbox detection on them so it's more true to what you see. But I've been kinda reluctant to it cause I got a feeling it might just end up being really frustrating for the player with the lack of control you have from tile based movement.

And yeah, working with limitation kinda forces creativity and brings new ideas that you might not get from working in a completely open engine. Like the dark effect for the eyes and the scream effects of the frog/snail like creatures are a direct result of this as well.

I started making games for rm2k back in the days and kinda quickly moved on to 2k3. Spent most of my "youth" making games in that. When it was released on steam I kinda just picked it up on a whim/nostalgia to try it out. Turned out I really enjoyed working in it.
I code for a living and I've tried to make games from scratch on my spare time. But I've found out that I just don't have the energy to code for 8 hours and then to go home and basically continue doing the same thing.
Rm2k3 kinda puts the coding in the backseat and let me focus on other aspects I like with making games such as level design, graphics and coming up with interesting places to explore.

I've haven't really given the newer makers a fair try. Think I tried a trial on VX Ace a while ago but didn't really get into it. I like the simplicity of the older ones.