Well, the truth is, it pains me quite a bit to have to make this post, but I will explain it step by step. The demo was complete and ready to be released, but i ran into many problems. What happened?
For some reason, many things started failing when they hadn't before, and by the time I "fixed" them, it was too late: the project became corrupted. Why?
Epic Games has released an update to the launcher that has essentially killed all versions of Unreal Engine 4 (the engine I was using), deleting binary files and corrupting entire projects. They have also broken file references in the versions saved within the Unreal Engine 4 source code. The issue has been ongoing for a week and still hasn't been fixed.
Sadly, the project will have to be canceled, at least until this is sorted out. However, since a week has already passed, I foresee complications. And now someone will tell me to update to Unreal Engine 5—it's not worth it. The migration would take me more work than redoing everything from scratch, and besides, the project is already partially corrupted.
If you are interested in seeing the problems people are currently facing, here is a forum where people are having all sorts of issues, not just with packaging the project but with the engine itself:
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