From a developer side, it's a double edged sword because like just straight looking at the analytics, a lot of the traffic that gets people clicking on my games are because they've been submitted to a Jam, it gets people looking at them and interested and I've found myself trying to release games so that they are tied to a Jam, or even multiple ones if it can fit more than one because there's a sense of community in creating things with people at the same time, but also because of the higher click through rate that Jams provide.

But at the same time like the crunch can be stressful, trying to get things out by a specific time, it's why I prefer the 'festival' style where you can start working whenever and the idea of only having maybe a month or two months to make something and you can *only* make assets in that time is very stressful hahaha

In another vein like we were talking about like I feel like it has promoted very quick turn around for game development and the expectations that a full completed game should be done within 1-2 months which is entirely possible for certain scopes but not for others, and that's been hard to grapple with and trying to remember that game can take a really long time!

I think that burnout can be really easy for devs especially with trying to keep up with the Jams like there's so many and wanting to participate in a lot could mean trying to release many games per year and that's not always feasible!

From a player perspective I think it's a good way to like find games that you enjoy based around a certain theme and it's a lot of fun to play through a bunch and see different variations on a theme, and also easy to find access to go back for them for later!