I had a lot of fun with this jam! It was really intense, though, and I spent way more time and energy on it than I thought I would.
I'm still trying to decompress and relax, almost a week later. That's pretty normal for me, to be honest. It doesn't help that there's a ton of stuff I kinda neglected while I was jamming this time around.
I think the thing that surprised me the most was people doing their first games for this jam. I think every one of them was pretty good- maybe not perfect but if the creators hadn't mentioned they were just starting out I wouldn't have realized. My first game was horrendous. It had about three lines of text, stupid gameplay, a garbage "storyline", no graphics, and it was made in a DOS program so you can't even play it anymore. Oddly enough, I actually found this jam when I was checking to see if there were any "remake your first game" jams going on.