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Real feedback>sugercoating

A topic by AliTheGreat74 created Oct 12, 2025 Views: 167 Replies: 5
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Submitted

Hey everyone,

I’ve been playing a bunch of games from the jam (and enjoying a lot of them), but I noticed something that’s been bugging me a bit.

It feels like most of the comments are just endless chains of “great job!” with not much actual feedback. And I get it — we all want to support each other and get our own games seen. But doesn’t it kind of defeat the purpose of the jam?

Game jams are supposed to be about learning, experimenting, and improving — not turning into a popularity contest. I’d personally rather get one honest piece of feedback that helps me improve than ten polite “cool game!”s that tell me nothing.

So yeah, this is my friendly little rant 😅

If anyone else feels the same, I’d love to chat. Let’s actually play each other’s games, share real feedback, and help each other get better.

(And hey, if you play mine — be honest. If something sucks, I wanna know why 😄)

You read my mind, I think exactly the same

It's good to havea place where we (the participants) can chat and exchange opinions and information

I suggest a telegram group for this, if anyone is interested, let me know with a comment in here and I'll make the group chat if more than 3 people replied

Submitted

I think the problem mainly comes from the fact that a lot of people here are new to this kind of jam on itch.io. Naturally, newcomers tend to be polite and supportive rather than critical, especially in their first event.

There are also different ways people approach jam games, some just play for fun, others to analyze design, and some to check out what other devs made. Depending on which group you fall into, you’ll naturally give a different kind of feedback.

So yeah, constructive critique might be rare this time, but that’s just part of the community finding its rhythm. Once there’s more “culture” around proper feedback, I think we’ll see it grow.

My teammate and I have been playing some of the jam games and had a blast, but to give proper feedback we’ll need to replay a few. It’s never too late to learn from each other.

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I played all the games and wrote my thoughts on them, but I have no stable way to reliably converse with the creators. you could say the connection is... unstable :D

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That's actually a good point lol

I believe a reliable developers hub could actually be pretty useful. Telegram is great but discord could be used for this too.

Maybe we could collaborate to launch a central hub for developers and invite them over to create connections!

I just made a small group to see where it goes :)