Sleep is for the weak.

...Sadly I missed the whole first two days due to life events.

the jam is 100% crunch. unless you really have a much smaller scope than what is challenging to manage, but most of the time, it's a battle against the clock.

Glad it's not just me. The artist must suffer for the art.

how is the crunch going?

Forgot to sleep last night but we almost there >:3c

we r on this rise and grind -- we did a realllyy simple art style (crayon and online assets) but tech wise oooeugh ... i'll be happy if we have a web build

the last 3 days was a real mission. i had a complete crash out, then i crunched for 30-something hours. i literally fell asleep getting into bed. if i was 10 seconds later, i would have slept on the floor. took a quick 4 hour recharge, then met with the team to squash bugs and submit. 2 days ago i told myself i would never do this again, and now i am already excited for next year. my team used to do 3 jams a year. now we only do this one because the themes always slap

Absolutely, I was unable to get nearly as much as I wanted to done level-wise, but I'm glad I got like 4 minutes of content out of it in the end lmao. And we were still late. Guess it's hard to juggle a good jam entry with work.

I was on crunch for more than 24 hours straight leading up to the submission deadline. I saw this post and wanted to comment earlier, but figured it could wait until we had a submission. I just woke up from a nap lol.
As a fun side note, I spent a decent chunk of time on that last day making a low-poly version of Vinny because I was planning on having him twerk over the end game credits, until someone said that it was a bad idea and so that model will never see the light of day. 
I can't tell if I'm still sleep deprived or not, but part of me still thinks it'd be funny and well received, but I understand not wanting to risk it.  Oh well  ¯_(ツ)_/¯