I wasn't sure if I should make a new topic as I have a very similar question -- I also still intend to make my game even if it doesn't quite fit into the scope of this jam, but I'm using RPG Maker MV. The player will be able to make choices and move around freely in the single map, but I'm not sure if the battle element I intend to include would take away from the rest of the story as the central theme in your opinion. The point of the game is still to bake with a recipe by finding the ingredients and following the directions, but I just wanted to see whether it was still close enough to the spirit of the jam if I'm trying to tell a story that only has one ending while incorporating other elements into it. (I also only found this jam about 6 days before the deadline, so I would've asked sooner had I not been working feverishly to actually make something playable ^^;)