deadline got slightly extended, which means i was able to make some slight tweaks to make everything run more smoothly! first, i added some music in (all assets from pixabay). then, we merged both the story and gui edits (by @kjoy116 ) onto the main branch so that most of the game was running smoothly. i had some issues with backgrounds not filling in the whole screen which i thought was an issue with my canvas size, but i figured it might be worth it to play around with ren’py to see if there was a fix. i referenced the transform commands in ren’py’s documentation since that’s where some similar problems online pointed me towards, so it ended up being a pretty easy fix! lastly, i worked on making the itch.io page look presentable (which was pretty quick, around half an hour)! the game is live on itch.io now, so that’s exciting!