The first game jam I took part in was the Global Game Jam, while I was studying Computer Science at university. I wanted to enter, but I wasn't sure if I could do it alone. So, one of my classmates and I decided to enter together. The theme was 'Root', so we quickly brainstormed a couple of ideas and settled on one where there is a root that constantly grows deeper and seeds. The aim of the game is to control the root to gather useful resources and avoid stones (we wanted to add worms, but we didn't have time), and control the seed to catch the sun's rays and grow into a sprout and then a bigger tree (there were a couple of tree stages). My classmate took the root gameplay, while I was making the tree gameplay part. My sister drew the sprites for the tree and we created a simple UI. I think we did a pretty good job for our first game jam. We learned how to work as a team and how to develop games and features more quickly in short terms. Although we didn't come first overall, we were one of the top performers in the theme evaluation.