(Day Eleven:)
(Slowly but surely, I'm getting there. I spent most of the day play testing, and got a fair number of bugs. I'm at the point where I can play it all the way through, and that may have to do for now. I also had my video game-hating mother play it to see how a completely inexperienced player would do things. The results were informative, and even more bugs were squashed.)
(I'm most worried about exporting, so I also went through and manually either shrunk or deleted files I don't think I'll need. I got the file size down to about 425 mb, but that's still too much. I'm afraid that letting RPG Maker get rid of the files for me will mess with the plugins --which isn't a completely unfounded fear-- so I'll be using another plugin to further compress the file. I'll see what else I can either shrink or get rid of before I test deployment tomorrow.)
(All that's left now is the music and the credits, which I'll take care of tomorrow. Then one more round of play testing. Then exporting, and figuring out what I need to fix when that inevitably has issues. If anyone has any further suggestions for shrinking the file size, please let me know.)
(And that's about it. So close, and yet so far.)