i encourage you to take the time to poke around itchio's other game jams--there's a lot of cool events running at any given time and it will give you the chance to push your dev skills and learn new things. rushing mechanics to fit deadlines is actually pretty normal for jam games and it's actually really neat to see the creative solutions you came up with the time crunch! even if it's not something you wanted from the outset, i wouldn't discredit your effort to create a finished product--this is the kind of hard work that makes and finishes games! thanks for jamming with us i hope you can continue to create games and learn in the future!