Thank you for playing and for your kind words!
As for how I got things done fast for the jam, my trick is to reuse sprites (example: all three girls have the same base sketch, and I only drew half of each and mirrored it lengthwise) and to make "OK" looking but not effort intensive sprites (like the backgrounds--check out the lines of the trees, they're so sketchy). Only adding enough details to get the idea across. The writing was the hardest part. I actually planned to finish it completely with an epilogue and everything instead of leaving it as a cliffhanger, but I ran out of time... I'll be working on finishing it, though!