temeela [she/them]

Seems like your USB drive is formatted with a filesystem that doesn’t support large files like FAT32, if you are able to, try formatting into exFAT in Linux with:

sudo mkfs.exfat -n LABEL /dev/YOURUSB

or in Windows by right clicking on the USB and clicking format.

I’ve filed a report to GitHub on this guy, I assume you did the same but ugh, people suck.

uBlock Origin has cookie/popups filters that you can enable in its settings that work pretty well

I have seen people use Google Drive during a jam, as a team, I was flabbergasted! I was in charge of the git repo and quality control of our code in one of my biggest projects and I cannot begin to praise git enough. Git blame, feature branches and rollbacks have saved our team’s bacon a bunch of times. 10/10 advice, do make sure to start using it yesterday.

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!