How did you forgot about a game jam?
That's what I was gonna ask too, cuz kinda just hard to forget, however it happened likely due to the long time frame in between, I'm guessing they were not on itch the whole time, then came back and bam saw the jam was half done, however there is still time to do the game, they did mention they are in another Jam, however all the game needs is """secrets""" in it and can be a Double Jam post, I even made games that entered in multiple Jams, so I think it's more a scenario they feel too pressured to submit here, but would rather buy more time, do likely the same game anyways but in another jam with slight tweaks to their original idea, which I do find is quite odd tbh. Nothing wrong with a double submission. Even prototype games have won jams before even, I've even seen a 1 hour of code game won before too once in the past even also., where the person kept it simple and from what I heard barely tried.