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Yesterday I got the chance to participate in a game jam. This time I wasn’t jamming, I was judging. I played all the games and talked with all the teams. It was sort of fun to see a game jam from this angle.

Typically, by the end of a game jam, I am happy to have made something, but I am also so frazzled that I can’t really think that hard about any of the games, including my own. It was interesting viewing the games through a different lens. I know all too well what it takes to make a game in a very short period of time, and I know what it’s like to over scope and come up just short of your intentions.

Ultimately, every one of these games is a pretty incredible achievement and I had a good time playing and evaluating them.

Maybe next time I’ll make something again.