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Harold Jam Final Rankings Pending Sticky

A topic by Human created Apr 27, 2023 Views: 160 Replies: 3
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HostSubmitted(+3)

Hi Harold Jammers!

Congrats on reaching the end of the jam! You may have noticed some confusing results (starts at 2nd place?) or read some prior discussion. To summarize, we've confirmed that some questionable voting activity skewed results unfairly. As a result we have disqualified one entry. We're reaching out to itch.io directly to see if they can fix the ratings themselves and give any more insight into what happened. Until we get word back from them, we can't guarantee the results up now reflect the final rankings. The actual events leading up to the questionable votes and the party or parties responsible can't be fully confirmed at this point.

For now:

- Don't fully trust the rankings as you see them. They may change going forward.

- Try to withhold judgments, accusations, and speculations for now. There's still a lot of information coming in and there may be more to the story than we currently know. Thanks again for your patience and try to direct confused people to this post and or to the mods on Discord if they have more questions.

HostSubmitted(+2)

Still waiting on a response from itch.io! I'm sorry for the wait everyone! Will update the second I get word.

HostSubmitted (1 edit)

Final results are in! Itch.io support removed votes intended to manipulate scores. It does look like the ratings distribution still reflects the original, so it may not be accurate, but the rankings ought to be.

Congratulations to MoogleRampage for being the overall winner with the mindblowing A Harold Between Worlds 2: Reid Shift!

Congratulations also to our other category winners!

  • Gameplay: Rage Against the Dying by Sawyer Friend
  • Music: Stuck in the Liminal by callmeDJ
  • Comedy: Paragon by Human
  • Graphics: Milk Quest by Gensun
  • Story: Rage Against the Dying by Sawyer Friend

The prizes have either been sent or will be sent soon! Thank you all again for your amazing jam efforts and for your inhuman patience as we dealt with these novel challenges.

We'll be sending a post-mortem and a survey out soon to get feedback for next jam!

Submitted
Thanks again for getting to the bottom of this. Definitely feel bad for Ronald since he had best gameplay at first, but it's so nice having unbiased results.