Glad you liked it. For the limited time I could work on it was quite ambitous, you're right. It was also quite a risk as this game lives from user generated content so from you plaing. I'm glad some people found their way here :)
For the animations: Yes their janky, most of them were made one or two days before the deadline, so I had no time to really polish things. Skipping animations is a good idea, although the first animation is used to load the messages in the background. I'll consider it if I decide to polish some last bits, especially the sitting animations should be skippable. Thank you for playing!