Aww jeez, Shrimp, what thorough and thoughtful feedback! I'm truly honored.
Re: voice acting: you make me blush. One day I just decided to embrace the cringe and go for it. Too much time wasted with self doubt, caring too much about being embarrassed and perceived as cringe worthy. It is what it is and it makes me laugh, so hopefully it'll make somebody else laugh, too, even if it's at me instead of with me. This one was recorded all in one sitting, no retakes, at ~3am on the last day I had to work on it. Thankfully the script was fully written at that point to make that possible. I added Labels for the different sections in Audacity, so I could "Export Multiple" and split it at the labels. Super useful for batch processing. The reverb vibe covers a multitude of sins.
Re: television: primarily I used this free MIT licensed LED shader that says no credit is necessary, but I should probably add it to the page anyway.
https://github.com/llcheesell/LEDScreenShader
Re: size. I had to be hardcore about scope size. I had only five of the seven days to work on it, which is why I wrapped early and was the first submission. I am (along with most game jammers) horrible at over scoping, and I often don't finish my jam entries properly (including last year's "Premature Illumination"). Even so, I had originally wanted a plethora of funny survey questions, most of which wouldn't have had any generative AI involved, but when it came down to the deadline, I had to be cutthroat and stick with just three. Which really sells that late line "That's it. Told you it was brief." I also wanted a lot more interactable items to affect the flow, as others have indicated would've been nice.
Re: branching: yes I very much had this in my "Won't have" bucket pretty early on, even though I wanted it, because of scope. You're right that breaking the TV would've been its own unique ending. Best I could do in the time was incorporating unique responses to some of the answers given.
Thanks again for the amazing feedback and for the huge amount of work put in to host the jam. I had a blast getting my creep on. I had been looking forward to it for a long time. Shame it didn't get as much participation as everyone would've liked. Still, loads of fun.