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Might be good to fix this:

Start: Friday, July 11, 2025 @ 18:00 UTC
Submission Deadline: Wednesday, July 18, 2025 @ 23:59 UTC
Voting Ends: Wednesday, July 25, 2025 @ 23:59 UTC

Because July 18 and July 25 are very much not Wednesdays. (I hope both are meant to be Fridays for 7 day total jam, rather than Wednesdays for a shorter total time)

Also also, I'd suggest a voting period of at least two weeks; even if half of currently declared people submitted an entry, that would make for over 40 entries to play over a week, which is tricky if you don't have much free time. And even if for some people 2 weeks won't be enough, it should still result in individual people's more complete voting, which means more feedback for everyone and somewhat fairer results.

DVH188 days ago

Thanks for your sharp eye! I've sent it to the organizer. Sorry, I can't help you further — I'm just the graphic designer.

Stop Killing Games Community188 days ago

Good job, fixed! C&P error…

Stop Killing Games Community188 days ago (2 edits)

Also also, I’d suggest a voting period of at least two weeks; even if half of currently declared people submitted an entry, that would make for over 40 entries to play over a week, which is tricky if you don’t have much free time. And even if for some people 2 weeks won’t be enough, it should still result in individual people’s more complete voting, which means more feedback for everyone and somewhat fairer results.

I can’t preview how other jams do it nowadays, I configured this how I remember the last jam I attended was configured :D But you make a good point.

I planned to use rating queue of the size 5, and allow out-of-queue rating after 5 ratings.

AFAIK as a participant you don’t have to rate any games to get a score in itch game jam. So basically the participants will get 2 weeks to vote, but they might need it or not.

I have this idea: What if we end voting on Tuesday, July 29 @ 23:59. Then we would have one day (July 30) break to take a look at the results, do some moderation (i hope not necessary), prepare the movies etc. Then July 31 at, say 18:00 UTC we publish the results?

And this will be the final bell of the initiative, so everyone will go BBQ celebrating it’s success:) Is this a good plan?

I request community’s feedback, please :)

Alice188 days ago(+1)

Yeah, Tuesday would be fine. At least participants would get two weekends' worth instead of one, so they could knock quite a few games down back then. And yes, I know in itch.io jams you don't need to rate games, but I prefer to play a whole bunch of them if time permits. ^^

Speaking of rating queues: does itch.io have system for these in the first place? Either way, to support rating games semi-evenly, I think the Jam Player I mentioned in another thread might come in handy, although it handles only Windows and web games. But also, if a game is Linux-only or Mac-only, then people who are on Windows to begin with wouldn't be able to judge these anyway. If you're interested in using Jam Player for this jam and think there are some relatively small features that could be implemented to make this jam easier, feel free to let me know. I can also gather the entries after the jam and prepare a ZIP, hopefully it won't take more than a day.