That's fine, it's understandable and in fact great that ye gave it more time even, 's long as the result will be within the reach you want, 's gonna be all good.
As for the Jam and October colliding with their events, 's pretty unfortunate that that's the case, though the fact that the jam's given ye the motivation to work on the game's already great 'nough, so keep at it man, ye can do it!