The results are here! Congrats to Errol, and to everyone else!
https://itch.io/jam/an-adventuron-christmas-jam/results
I admit I’m a bit baffled with the disparities in the number of votes (the first having twice as many as ~half of the other entries). And itch.io’s algorithm lowered the score of the ones with less entries, which I understand, but which may not be totally fair when there not too many votes (they range between 12-28 per game).
Congrats!
I was not able to rate all games. I only finished 6 out of the games and they all had lots of qualities, original and nice features :)
For score adjustment based on number of votes, here it seems rather low (12 votes -9%, 13 votes: -5%, 14 votes: -2%, 15 votes and more no deviation) thanks to the fact that no one was too far away from the median. In this other jam, someone with three 5/5 is 1st place, someone with two 5/5 is 38th place with 4.08 (19% deviation) and someone with one 5/5 is 313th place with 2.88 (42% deviation).
Congratulation to Errol & a huge thank you to everyone that participated in the jam, whether as judge, community member, sponsor, or entrant. I truly think this is the most consistently high quality (of entries) (adventuron) jam that there has been so far.
I created a thread on Twitter on the results here:
https://twitter.com/LearnAdventuron/status/1351047980057554944
This community is still very small, and I very much appreciate the enthusiasm, energy, and craft put into each and every one of these games.
Pretty much everyone is in-line to receive a prize (unless they opt out or there is some legal reason why they can't), I'll start a thread on prize claiming later on today.
The theme of the next jam is set, if you would like to sponsor the next jam in some way, do let me know. I imagine that the prize pool will be smaller in the next jam, so every little helps.
Well done to all.
it is over two vods, santapunk play is on the first one: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/848132310?t=2h47m17s
it is nice to see how someone else played the games :)
It's helpful to watch someone playing your own game, but live play-throughs are downright boring and they give too many spoilers. Of the ones I've seen, they tend to make the player look like an idiot. More importantly, they make the game look bad. For anyone not familiar with text adventures, these videos would really put them off. We should be promoting the genre and making people want to play the games, not making them look bad.
This are the types of games that I play on my stream most days, that is adventure games, from the graphical text based ones to the modern ones. I thought all of the games were great efforts and some certainly had difficult puzzle and others had less difficult ones. I like to think that by playing them that I highlighted that they existed and let everyone know that they could also play them. As far as spoilers are concerned, I know that some people don't like to play these types of games (because they are bad at puzzles or get easily frustrated), but like to watch other stumble through them and to see the story.
Ha ha, it may be a generational thing. Twitch and Let's Plays are HUGELY popular. My wife doesn't understand at all why anyone wants to watch people play games.
The ones I watch tend to be for humour purposes, and games I've already played.
I'm still impressed TacoAdventure was able to commit to five hours of our games. ^_^
I like let's play streams.
If I really like the look of a game that I haven't yet played, and spoilers are coming thick and fast, I'll bow out, but quite often I'd rather have a social experience (like playing with my brothers when I was younger) than flounder on a game all by myself. "Single player" games are always my preference but I so rarely used to play single player games alone. Streams kind of recreate that atmosphere, but with someone else at the helm.
I enjoy streams live, so I can chat in the window, and make suggestions, I don't very much enjoy just watching a saved stream as it's not social any more.
Sorry to resurrect this thread, but I don't think I'd like watching me as I'd rather play the games than watch others play them. I do enjoy watching games that I have played and seeing other people stumble around the puzzles or get lost and see how they think differently from me. I play adventure games from across the spectrum from Mystery House on the Apple II, to Zork I, to classic Sierra and Lucas Arts, to modern adventure games such as Tacoma. Usually people pick the games that I play and sometimes people come and say hi and leave because they don't want me to spoil a game that they want to play themselves.
I just watched you play my game. Thanks so much! And you stayed with it for so long, even though you got stuck on the third chapter. Your thinking was sound, but unfortunately not the right solution for my game.
There was a great moment when you said, "Maybe I need to wrap the coal in the handkerchief?" and I clapped my hands and cheered (although the coal is actually part of the fourth chapter), but almost immediately I was kicking myself because either the exact phrasing you used or the fact that you'd already picked up the coal (I'm not sure which, maybe both) tripped up my code and gave you an error message. Then you gave up on that idea. D'oh!
I know that the "HELP" text looked like boring boilerplate (my fault), but if you'd read it you might've gotten some important info. ;)
