In addition to combining all the puzzles and buildings into one large interior space, we also made the intro very short, so the player only has a few moments in the exterior before they are placed into the game; previously, it took nearly five minutes to get into the first building and really begin playing.

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This new layout was not without its numerous issues, however. Many players still felt lost in the, still quite large, facility. Over the following weeks, I would make many cuts to the scale; this generally involved removing extra rooms and hallways, blocking areas that weren't needed from the player, compacting some of the larger spaces, and making a big decision to make the game completely linear whereas before the path the player took through the game was determined mainly by which puzzles they could understand and solve at the time. 

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Among those changes, I also made a few changes that allowed the player to navigate and know where to go more easily. I blocked off sections of the map with colored key cards and doors, I created puzzle chains for more linear progression, which helped the puzzles give a better feeling of accomplishment, I placed in emergency doors and lights which opened or lit up to guide the player to the next set of puzzles once they completed a chain,  I created aurora arrows which pointed to the next puzzle to make sure the player at least knew the general direction they had to take to make progress. I  opened up sections of the map with windows and balconies to allow for foreshadowing.