I think you should still give another jam a try! I started quite recently too and there's so much I didn't get to implement in my game because I just don't know how (like one example would have been splitting the ray and then merging it but I had so little knowledge about raycasting to begin with that I barely got the main gimmick to work reliably) but I decided to write that stuff down and now in my free time I try to learn and make them work. Of course that's just how I do it, I'm sure others do it differently. Anyway I enjoyed your game, even if it was a bit short. I see what you were going for so it's a shame you didn't have enough time to finish what you were planning. I wish you the best of luck!