Oh I really appreciate that. Yes I agree. With the initial concept I did want to have more level mechanics and silhouette style monsters that would chase you around the level aswell as rooms that closed in on you to give the claustrophobic feeling but I spent a little too long on areas of this project that were new too me ( like animating the shadows). It does seem that optimization was an issue here I think im going to make a project that just focuses on optimization so I have a block of code I can use in all my work going forward.  

Thankyou!

Yeah this is my first games jam. I think its because in the base file its using UE5 with max setting when it in no way needs too XD. But we live and learn think ill schedule 6 hours at the end for testing next time.  

Thankyou, I completely agree too. Time management was a bit of an issue with this. Spent too mcuh time on some tasks that should of been spent doing other things not to mention loosing my level just before submission and having too create it again. Nonetheless these are all things ill learn from for next time!