I love your idea of teaming up! Being able to focus on just the art for these jams sounds dreamy, because art is my favorite thing to do! Right now I'm trying to learn Godot (hence why I work solo) but in the future I would love to team up with others.
I also really wanted to animate everything, and hoped I'd be able to have stuff like idle / attack animations, but sadly ran out of time. What trips me up the most during jams is usually the code and trying to figure out how to make stuff work! But I agree, animation would bring everything to life and be so nice to have.
Really happy to hear you enjoyed it even as someone who doesn't play these types of games - thanks for taking the time to play and leave such a nice comment!