Thanks for the replies! And sorry I've been so checked out but, well, things have not gone great for the first week. I haven't had as much time as I hoped to work on my game and mostly I've been going through tutorials to get the hang of the basics, but I do have a little bit done. For the player I've got movement, one attack, and a dodge/dash move. I've got a test level set up with some bushes and walls to collide with, and I've got one enemy type that doesn't do anything yet but stand there and get killed. All of which is represented by extremely ugly placeholder artwork which I am very embarrassed by but was still going to post up, but for some reason my images don't seem to be uploading right. Hopefully I'll make another post in here before the whole rest of the jam goes by and I can show something. Maybe I'll even have less ugly artwork by then!
While I'm pretty sad and a little stressed I haven't had more time to get my game into shape, that biggest bummer has been because I have so little time I've barely done anything on here or in the Discord, which was the best part about the last time I was in this jam. I hope I can scrape out some more time to get a chance for that in week two. I'm still loving getting to see everyone's ideas come together, even if it's just in a few seconds here and there!