I just made the first commercial game in my life and everyone in this jam is begging me to make it free. and when I say 1$ is not a lot of money , the owner comes and tells me that im rude. hate this jam.
As someone who recently left a homeless shelter, I can say I don't have the funds to buy your game. Not even if it's cheap. I don't even have a paypal or anything to buy it if I wanted. The last bit of my money went to my little brother so he could save up for a toy from the dollar store. I understand you may want to market your product, as I also hope to do that in the future. But this simply isn't the place. If you want an idea, maybe try building up a channel on youtube or twitch and then sending your viewers over to a patreon or something.
Please don't apologize. I'm not looking for sympathy. I'm glad you're advocating for shelters though. People don't seem to understand that being in a shelter does not mean the same thing as being happy or even remotely protected. Luckily, I'm not trapped in the cycle of homelessness that I've seen too much of for others.
Hee hee I'm tired of lecturing this person lmao.
Edit (06/22/2021): Oh god. This comment makes me cringe and slowly die inside because it contains "hee hee" and "lmao" in the same sentence and it still got upvotes. If only I had a time machine that enabled me to travel back to the first half of 2020 and reconsider the wording of this comment.
I am literally 13, but I would never try to sell something that I made in such a short time. I have never tried to sell any of my games, especially jam games. The game I am going to sell I have been working on for 3 months, and plan to work on for another 4. It's good if you want to monetize your game and hard work, but not during a jam. Make it free for the jams duration, then afterwards you can add on to it and sell it.
Listen mate, how did u get to the idea to make a game for a game jam in 1 week and charge it?! Didnt it cross ur mind there would be 60+ other free games to play, and besides that not all people have the money to buy ur game. No one called you rude until you started actually being rude and calling others "homeless". As I saw from the replies someone was actually homeless in the past and that could have really offended them. Chill the fuck out and continue with ur life.
As i said, not everyone has money to spend on ur game made in 1 week especially when theres a bunch of free ones, im not saying u cant make money off of it, it just isnt a smart idea to sell a game made in 1 week for a game jam. Nothing that I said needs to confuse you, its your own fault you brought hate on yourself for calling other people homeless. Besides that, u cant call a game made in 1 week finished, it probably has a bunch of bugs and not such long of a play time. I am a fast game developer too, but that doesnt mean the quality is always the best. Peace man
I saw the trailer for your game and it looks pretty good, I didnt say the time it takes to create a game sets the quality, but you should definitely work more on it and then release it, especially if its a game that requires payment to play. Besides that, if you want to win the game jam at least set it to free during the game jam period, then you can make it payed. This just seems like you are trying to promote something, like kind of an ad. You would also get feedback from the community to see what you can fix or make better before you sell your game. Look at this reply as a personal suggestion and stop fighting against all others.
I am a judge, but that doesnt mean I always need to be professional. People explained it to them 100 times and at this point I feel like they are pretending not to understand because they dont want to accept they are in the wrong, they are 13, that age is well enough to understand a concept of a finished game and not call others homeless for not buying it. Besides that it was 1 cuss word in the last sentence, nothing more. Peace