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I'm neither a lawyer nor the event organizer, but my gut reaction is that its very much in line with the spirit of the jam. 

Honestly it sounds like most people responding have 2D skills xD that's my preference as well, idk if that's ok under the jam rules or not. In any case, I'm sure you could do design work for either type of game in procreate

For sure! I have some friends who regularly make their own games. The difference with less people is just that we're limited to how much we can accomplish in a limited time frame, whether that means cutting back on graphics, features, stability, or something else depending on the skillsets available.

Yup, I definitely felt that in my game dev classes! Even where every student was being graded on their participation, there were still a number of students who never even managed to submit anything by the end, and where some few other students ended up building almost everything. It's a lot easier to click "Join this Jam" than to actually follow along and make something!

Before we all start making any games, I think we'll need to learn about who's participating and what they're interested in doing.

I'm Xene, a 4th year University student studying "New Media" and Management. I have taken a couple of game dev classes at my school, but the experience wasn't great and I think missed a lot of important instruction, especially on the coding side. I joined this game jam because I just happened to be starting studies into things like State Machines on my own, and figured I might learn best in a game jam led by someone who knows what that stuff is about. 

My primary skills are mostly around art, but I don't intend to do much or any of that for this game jam unless needed, as I want to properly learn the coding side of things, especially things that might help me later in making 2D pixel games in Love.

I'm curious, since this is my first jam. How do we go about meeting everyone and getting an idea of where everyone is in terms of skills/goals? How many people want to be programmers, artists, and other such?

Sorry for missing the live! A knock at the door shortly before start time ended up stretching for hours. 
For increasing engagement, I wonder how much the Discord will help (when its ready). I think especially with the demographic most likely to sign up for this jam, most users might struggle with forums and email, while being glued to Discord most of the day.