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Tips for my first game jam?
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This x1000.
Re. Scoping, this is a really useful skill to nurture, that and accurately predicting how much time tasks are going to take you, which really go hand in hand.
Try to set up realistic goals/milestones for all your projects, not only gamejams, the bronze/silver/gold approach (which I'm borrowing if you don't mind) is a really good start, specially for jams, for longer projects you might want to take those and divide them in smaller goals!
Analyze when finishing each task how realistic your time/effort expectations were and eventually you'll nail your estimations more, you'll finish way more games when they don't creep in scope, ask me how I know!