Well this is my first game jam, and I got about a month of experience at the moment. Even though I didn't come here on purpose(really sorry), I have something to say. I found out about jam when I published my very first game(at that time I had about three weeks of experience) and one person wrote in the comments to this game about jam. Then I thought "why not?", I'm just a novice developer, I want to practice a lot, and this looked like a good opportunity.
The first week of development was very good. Lots of ideas, I was very interested and enthusiastic! Inn liked to share progress on Twitter and follow the development of games and ideas of other people!
But as soon as the week of voting and feedback started, I was exhausted. And, more importantly, I began to feel a little disappointed. I don't want to write too much about this, but with so many participants, there is no question of any fairness in the results, some people lie in reviews just to get a good review in response, and the final score is very subjective, and rather depends on luck. Of course, there are a lot of very wonderful people here and good games, but there is still an unpleasant feeling in general. I don't know, maybe this is more due to some problems in real life, but for a week now I feel frustrated and a little depressed.
I will not stop participating in jams in the future, but I will try to choose some small and themed jams.