Thanks for participating in my game jam! Sorry for the late message, I meant to write this earlier today but I was busy, anyways I thought I'd give some last minute info about submissions, judging and late submissions work, and also about how I will be streaming games.
For people submitting
Submissions are due Today at 11:59PM EST, if you would like more time to work on it please see the late submissions section below. For those of you submitting, here's how your game will be rated and how submissions will work.
Upon pressing the submit button a screen will pop up that I have set up asking you a few questions about your game. Some of these are private and some will be shown with your submission when people go to play it. The categories are:
Game description (Public) - You will be asked to provide a short description of your game, along with why you chose to make it and how long it took you.
Theme (Public) - There will be a multiple choice box asking which theme you used in your game.
Godot Experience (Public) - You will be asked to provide brief details about your Godot experience. How long have you been using Godot? What's your experience? What other games have you made?
Live Stream (Private) - A two choice question asking if you would like your game to be featured on my channel in a live stream of me playing and rating entries.
After your game is submitted and the submission period ends, the judging period starts, but more on that below. All you should know when submitting your game is that entries will be voted on 4 categories:
- Use Of Theme
- Fun
- Creativity
- Overall
These will be voted on by the community and a scoreboard will show where everyone placed in each category. eg, Fun: #3, Use of theme: #5. Creativity: #2. Overall: #3. (Overall is not an average, instead it is treated as a category which players vote on how much they liked the game overall)
For people who need more time
I will accept late submissions for those who need them. Please send a email to me at fiftythirdrail@gmail.com and attach your game page URL format is https://www.username.itch.io/game to the email so I can generate a submissions link. You will then receive an email back with a link for you to use to complete your submission.
For people voting on entries
There will be a voting que for all people participating in the jam. You will have 3 games in your que at a time, and must rate a total of 7 games before you can choose to rate specific games. This helps all games get a fair rating.
Please also be kind and respectful when leaving ratings, and do not post hateful comments, or just post complaining about the game. If you are leaving a comment (which I strongly encourage everyone to as it is really useful for the creator) you should include a: a good thing about the game why you liked it, what part you liked about it and b: a thing to fix in the game a bug you found, something you think could have been different. People leaving rude or hateful comments will have your entries taken down and disqualified.
Live stream playing entries
I will be streaming all entries live sometime next week, so check back here for the day I will be streaming them. Please comment down below a preferred time of day you would like me to stream (it should be sometime during EST daytime) so that everyone can watch it live in different time zones. If you are not available for the stream a video version will be posted after the stream, but live is always nice so you can talk with me or tell me to go to a specific spot/ give my opinion on something specific.
Thanks again for participating in my game jam, I am hoping to do this again next year, except bigger, (and more organized lol.) Anyways happy judging. :P