48 hours. One theme revealed at the start. You build something. You ship it.

My first game jam was in early 2024. Here's what I learned — most of it the hard way.

Cross country taught me to endure. Track taught me to compete.

Same legs, same lungs — completely different feeling.

The gun goes off and everything you practiced either shows up or it doesn't.

That's cross country. No retries. No checkpoints. Just you, the course, and however much you put in during the six days before.