I think we both share the issue that we ran out of time on our games to get done what we wanted.
I don't think I articulated very well when I said '2 directional'. What I meant was even though you could move up, down, left and right, the character sprite only had 2 directions it would face - left and right. So when moving up, generally the player sprite will show their back as if they are walking away and moving down they will show a front on view. The sprite you made shows only left and right facing sprites. Totally understand making custom sprites takes a long time in short jam. My own MC sprite took me a full day alone to make start to finish NGL.
I'm down to play your update for sure, no rush if you have stuff on the backburner you wanna get through first. I can just follow you here on itch and it will pop up in my feed when it drops. Good luck, I'll be waiting :)