This was also my first jam and i'm fairly new to programming in general, so i can relate when you say that "programing does'nt come to me naturally" i also have more interest in the art side of things :), i've always been drawing and doodling stuff from as far as i can remember, and since i grew up with retro games i kinda dabbled into pixel art as well for fun from time to time.
I've always wanted to try and make games but since i only knew the graphics side of things that kinda felt out of reach, cause for the longest time everything related to coding felt like some nonsense impossible to understand black magic to me :p
but hearing more and more about some of the game engines available these days i found one which felt accessible enough so i could give it a shot, so i got it and followed a bunch of tutorials, they were well made so i understood most of the things which didn't really make sense before and one thing led to another, i saw the GMTK Jam announcement video pop up, so i said to myself "hmm why not give it a shot see if i can make it ?"
My idea for the theme was to make a simple game where the "Only One" aspect would be the means of attack, so i kinda thought i wanted to try something other than projectile based combat and see how it goes.
And so here i am now XD
with not the fancyest game around for sure but i managed to make it and publish at least something :)