This is my first games jam. I chose to do this as the theme sounded interesting, and I'm a first year at uni doing computer games technology.
I wondered what I could do with "thus far" (less than 2 months into the 3 year course) and if it'd be possible for me to make something in a short time frame to begin with.
It taught me to know my limits and assess what I could logically do or make in under a week, I chose to do a choose your own adventure style game after finding Twine and seeing it uses HTML/CSS which I had prior, mild experience with.
The biggest challenge for me was drawing, as I don't think of myself as much of an artist and I only had a notepad that transfers your input to your phone for the pictures I did. There's no erase function on it so it was all one shot drawings lol
Something I did learn though was how much can do done in so little time, as a lot of these games are incredible! They look like things you'd be able to buy on steam or other platforms rather than a one week project in a small team of friends, I am really impressed with everyone's work and it inspires me a bit as it means I might be able to do similar quality things in the future.