yea this took a lot of work.
(animations alone spent 18 or so hours. backgrounds about 4 hours, the final boss took about 29 hours.(which i had completed by day 4/8) and the level design for the first 3 levels i crammed into about 9 hours or so on the last day( i had level 4 done first as it was my testing ground for the monster since thats where he shows up)
i had a tab open keeping track of the time left. did the final build 10 minutes before the jam closed, i was worried i might have missed it as i wasn't sure if it had submitted. the actual files were not on the page till about a minute before it closed and when you submit a game with the submit new game button you cant see that its been submitted so i was frantically trying to update the page to find the name of the game to add it to the jam , accidentally clicked on the wrong one, then countdown hit 0, so i went to find the misplaced game and saw that the one that i wanted to add was already there. a real relief at that point as i didn't want 8 days worth of work ending on a 24 hour sprint to Finnish with me not getting to post it to the jam.