too big for the screen, items are unusable, and can't leave the scenes to look for items. Utterly unplayable....

I like the story so far, just work on the html version and do what you can!

December is the wrong time of year to submit a Halloween game. You may want to check your calendar to verify.

I have seen worse than minecraft.

I really want to give this a decent rating, but as you said, the start button doesn't work, making it literally unplayable. There's no way to bypass the start screen, and you didn't give a download link for the Windows EXE you mentioned.

Maybe do some more debugging?