I HAVE DONE IT!!!!!!!!! YAY
thanks for insisting that the problem was my DirectX12 because otherwise i wouldn’t have figured this out.
i applied the same fix i did for fortnite to this game. the Epic Games launcher allows you to write certain commands when launching a game to set certain properties to it. there’s one that forces the current game to run on DirectX version 11.
“-d3d11”
however, you can’t add local games to the Epic Games launcher to make this work. but you know where you can? in Steam! it’s pretty easy actually, you just select the executable and it will be added to your library, and Steam also supports these special launch commands.
i added it there and the game finally booted. it was quite laggy, but it worked. although the second time it was ran, the game crashed and returned a fatal error, but this can also fixed by restarting the computer.
i now have my review on the Game Jam submission page of the game.