>>57987144
Fire Island Fireworks Festival
This is the sleeper entry of this jam, easily. Made by one guy, has a cute story, some simple but nice/endearing world building, a nice custom map to explore, ties the top screen into his story quite nicely, and shows some unique dungeon gimmick ideas (even if they ended up being a bit aids to actually play). Genuinely learned a couple of tricks about how to do things from playing it, and this is the guy's first completed hack. The game definitely has flaws: quite a few typos (he's ESL so it's somewhat forgiveable), the writing could be a bit better especially with how it leads up to the ending, the final dungeon is quite obnoxious, and the bit right before the ending is rather weak and could do with some rewriting. But this hack actually showed a lot of promise, enough to overpower the cynicism I have playing these jam entries, and I think if this guy improved a bit more he could make something truly amazing, my hat's off to this guy. The dark horse of the jam easily.