Making games alone is hard. Especially when you realize that the jam is already coming to an end, and you've only begun! The illusion of control - I thought so too, but when I started working in teams, I realized that if you're too lazy to do things like particles, you can blame everything on your partner. And besides, the biggest advantage of working in pairs is that at the end of the jam, you can confidently blame your partner for doing too badly, haha, just kidding.