I gave up trying to finish the story and rushed to get something up that worked last night. You can try my first attempt at a pixel platformer here. You can walk and jump, press down to look up at the sky and have some weird fragments of conversations.
I think I have all the graphics and code I want, I just need to add the rest of the story and a few level elements, so I hope to do that during the week :)
The Godot engine is really cool once you get the hang of the basics so I'll definitely try to use it again in the future.
It was fun to try something completely different!