Thanks very much! In terms of a jam game (and also in terms of Adventuron's text-matching schema), I didn't want players (or, admittedly, me) to fiddle with "guess the verb." I tried to give it a narrative sheen with the player being too harried to do anything else. I'm glad it worked for you.
And thanks, too, for the kind words about the graphics. I'm utterly inept at drawing or creating pixel art, so photos it is. But you're right, I decreased the color palette for the images and tried to smooth them a bit when possible.
Thanks again!