Ok here's the top tip for this jam specifically.
- Because this jam is a month long, most developers are going to abandon it and bail out long before the submission date.
- There's a roughly 10% submission rate and its been going down over the years because this jam doesnt really get much attention or support from the jam hosts!
- Publish your Game by December 1st, but vote until January 8th? 48 entire hours to announce the winners on Jan 10th?
- You know what this means? Voting flatlines shortly after the submission deadline, and then everyone forgets about the jam and the results announcement is inconsequential because nobody cares and the forum is dead. Why this hasn't changed I have absolutely no idea.
- Its great to allow developers a month to BUILD a game, but nobody actually wants a month to REVIEW games.