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Should I have a contest?

Survive The Day: Dave's Coffee
A browser game made in HTML5

When I released Survive The Day Level 2, I had a contest to see who could get the highest score/fastest time.  I sent the winner a T-shirt. On the first day, the game got about 2,000 views and made it to Itch's homepage, which means like the top 20 or so games at the time!

I have no clue if the T-Shirt Contest was why - I can't even find any evidence of the T-Shirt giveaway, except for this - and it was also released on Christmas Day. Maybe no one else was crazy enough to release something Christmas Day?

But anyway, even though I have no clue why it happened, I'm always down for a contest. Another T-Shirt giveaway? Any other ideas?

The STD level 1 re-make isn't finished yet, so don't try to bust out that high score yet. Gotta set the high scores table to actually working - I didn't want to enable it until difficulty tweaking is done.  Also, would like to get the audio into the game.

What do you think?

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