I have made the executive decision to submit my project late. I think I could get it "finished" in the time I have, but honestly there are a lot of things I want to polish up that I won't have the time to get to in two hours. So I'll probably submit it late today or tomorrow afternoon.
As for progress, I'm almost done with the main game. I have all the script written and the """"minigame"""" """"coded"""". I just need to put the rest of the script which is like half a scene in the game and playtest one final time to make sure it's all working well. I'll also need to find and add music for the game and add some bonuses to the gallery, as well as make an in-game credits page. The music should be easy, I'll just hop on DovaSyndrome and get some free-to-use music. Credits page will just be putting all my credits onto a png and making it the background of a scene, easy enough. I also want to finish up my original CG and add it to the end of the game and gallery. It might look funky cause I'm drawing it fast but oh well LMAO
LONG LIVE THE FEESH

Ok so today I have managed to start putting what I have in my script into my engine. A very simple copy-paste process while adding all necessary visuals and stuff. I still need to write the rest of the script but the game itself is not experiencing any issues. Except the image gallery. Fuck the image gallery. (idk why its not working i did all the right steps there shouldn't be issues but for some reason the engine doesn't like me.) Lowkey wanna just abandon the gallery if it keeps not working. Also I installed a plugin that allows for quick time events, so that's fun. The plugin is japanese so I don't fully know how it works atp but it should be some simple gameplay to spice things up a little (lol). I feel like this game would benefit a lot from interactivity in some capacity but I don't know how to make like a fun minigame and don't have the time to find out so here we are.

UPDATE: I GOT THE GALLERY WORKING LETSGO

So if I'm late for this jam don't be surprised because I forgot that this was a week long jam and not a month long jam and I didn't do any work until like today LMAO
But yeah, I'm doing a visual novel. I have a rough outline of the plot and have started scripting. I also have two of the sprites download (using premade sprites cause f-ck that) and I'm gonna find all the backgrounds later. I probably don't need many just like a lake and maybe a school and maybe some other things that come up as I write. This won't be a very long game cause yk I have less than a week atp but :D Hopefully it's enjoyable. Honestly wanna add some gameplay but the engine I'm using is codeless and doesn't have that capability and I'm not about to learn ren'py or how to code minigames in a week so idk how that'd work. Maybe I can make something with the HTML embeds if I figure out how to make something with HTML? (I have before with the f-ckin app maker on code.org LMAO) But don't count on it.