Post by Eldwood in Game Jam Prizes: what actually motivates you?

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I'm not a fan of cash prizes, for two reasons:

I'm not a fan of competitive game jams that pick winners and losers. I just want to make something I think is cool without worrying if it's better than anybody else's thing.
Once money enters the game, I feel like being paid to work. If I'm being paid to work, I want a living wage, not a chance at $500 (which is less than minimum wage for any but the shortest of jams).

Then again, I'm not a regular participant in game jams in the first place, so feel free to ignore me.

I've seen that response before! We were thinking of doing a cashless jam, but figured more would participate if we used cash. Really we're just looking for good games we can reuse for an arcade platform we're building. Looking for games that people don't want to stop playing. If the top games make it onto our platform, you'll get 10% for every play. In the long run that's going to make you more anyway.....

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