Sorry to bother you, but I think you might have forgotten to bear in mind the modifier for this game jam.
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Okay, so, game jams usually have a modifier/theme, and when participating in a game jam, the aim is usually to create a game based on/tangentally related to that modifier/theme. For a better explanation, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_jam#Theme
The modifier for the So Bad It’s Good Jam this year (visible on the main page of the jam https://itch.io/jam/sbigjam2022 and in the jam discord server (linked on the main page)) is “Shh! The tortoise might hear”, so there’s an expectation that the games produced for this jam would relate to the prompt of ‘“Shh! The tortoise might hear”’ in some way, no matter how contrived/shoehorned in it is.
(and hell, trying to come up with a game that relates to the theme of a jam, and seeing how everyone else shoehorned it in, is part of the fun!)