To anyone who sees this game, a tldr: it's currently extremely unfinished! Yay!!
I severely underestimated how difficult it would be to write a dialogue engine, the dialogue itself, and branching routes for a game like this in such a short time frame. About 75% of the original plan was cut to ensure there was something at least kinda in a submitable(?) state in time for the deadline.
The currently missing features include actual gameplay/narrative usage of the timer on the left (the LOOP, as it were), the ability to enter responses into the free response box, and the (intended) main draw of the entire game! The primary concept was an ARG-esque gameplay loop where you search pages on the website for clues to solve a mystery about the mysterious origins of this mysterious model and paste them into the free response area as you work together to figure everything out.
I'm pretty passionate about this project, so expect to see these features make their way here at some point in the future. However, I also don't get much time free time to work on it, so don't expect to see them anytime soon (haha).
What you're left with is a pretty linear dialogue based experience. There are many points where you get to make choices and these choice do matter, but it's not near as fleshed out as I'd have liked it to be. Most of the dialogue was written between the hours of 1 and 5 AM, so apologies for its varying quality, but I hope it's at least somewhat satisfying to experience :D
If you read this far down, thanks so much for checking my game out! And please let me know if you'd be interested in an expansion of this concept. If it turns out there might be an actual audience for it, I'd be happy to move it up in the priorities list.
I'll do my best to respond to any questions, comments, or feedback left in the comments, so feel free to leave something there if you'd like. I don't expect there'll be much activity in here, so I should be able to respond pretty quick ;)