1. Hey everybody I'm Landonscribbles (Landon is also juts fine).
2. I didn't participate in the last game jams but I have been to a couple of games jams previously. However life events prevented me from completing either one of them before and so I really want to: complete a game jam, release a completed game (however tiny!) into the world, and work with some other awesome people.
3. My favorite games are a bit all over the place, a few are: Final Fantasy Tactics, Glitchhikers, Fallouts 1, 2, & New Vegas, Mirror's Edge, Undertale, The Walking Dead Season 1, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (s), and Dwarf Fortress. Many of these have inspired interest in game development in me but more than anything when a game has a cohesive internal universe it makes me wish I could create the same.
4. I've worked on some small personal projects that I've been learning on but haven't finished anything. I'm most experience with Unity (2d) but have played a bit with Game Maker Studio and a tiny amount with PyGame.
5. Game development, I know I know obviously everyone who participating in a game jam is but this is the most rewarding kind of work I've done in my life so far. As I gain more experience in the field I'd love to find partners to work on projects in the future!
6. I'm not a veteran but from the small things I've worked on I'll echo the above on keeping the scope small small small. Just from projects that I thought would be simple and fast it quickly became apparent it was always much more work than I thought.