TL;DR: Give feedback to games made by others to get feedback about your game. Please read the RULES before participating.
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I can see that many jammers have put up rating exchange topics. And that's okay. Ratings are nice. But what I believe is even better is written feedback. Still there is isn't always comments given for all the games and when they are they are often very short.
It is both really useful as a learning experience to hear what others think about your creation and rewarding to see that others have tried the game you worked hard for. It is easy way to make each other happy&motivated or help them for future projects by sharing constructive(!) criticism. I'm calling for everyone interested to join in community effort to give everyone a chance for their work to be noticed with quality feedback. And by doing so, you will get feedback from others in return.
RULES
Requirements for participations:
- You have a submission that is playable on browser. (If you instead have Windows game, please go hereinstead)
- You have not yet played the game linked in the the current latest comment. (If you have played it already, please wait for someone else to link their game first so everyone will get new players!)
Do the following 3 steps to participate:
- Post link to your game as a comment to this topic.
- Play, rate and comment (in the rating page of the game!) the game linked in the previous comment.
- Wait for the next person to comment to this topic and then do step 2 for that game too.
You are free to repeat above steps as many times as you would like if you want more feedback.
HOW TO GIVE GOOD FEEDBACK?
- What were the best 1-3 parts of the game?
- Why was it cool or why did you enjoyed it?
- They don't really have to be "the best" parts but something that you think is worth mentioning. It can be something general (like the art style) or something very specific ("that one tree on the background of the last section in level 2").
- Even if you don't like a game in general there should always be some nice part of the game or something that you considered better than the other parts.
- Positive feedback is meant to reward the game creator for their work, tell them what they did well, and motivate continue creating games!
- What would be the top 1-3 things to improve?
- Remember to be constructive! Don't say things like: "Your character controller is trash". Instead tell how they could improve/fix the thing you are commenting about: "I think the game would be more fun if the character could move faster." / "When I was learning programming character control this one tutorial helped me a lot: [link]" / "I noticed a bug that the character can sometimes jump second time. It happened to me usually when I was nearby a wall."
- Constructive criticism is meant for the game creator to learn&improve or let them no about an issue they did not know they game had.