Skip to main content

Indie game storeFree gamesFun gamesHorror games
Game developmentAssetsComics
SalesBundles
Jobs
TagsGame Engines
(+1)

I've not had a chance to play the game yet, beyond starting it. We will play later and give a review of gameplay then. Here are some thoughts based on first impressions of your game page.

There are 2 things that very strongly stood out as soon as I opened your game page. The first was the number of jams you submitted to. Over time submitting to many jams can happen if you submit to continuation jams like this one, but a fairly new submission with that many jams stands out. As soon as I saw the number of jams I started looking at the names of them. It was very clear that only some were continuation jams, and that your game was unlikely to be able to qualify for for all of the jams. Many jams are exclusive, meaning you must create your game for that jam and cannot submit to any others during the jam. I looked through your submissions to many of the jams and see that you have been disqualified from several of them already. Being seen as someone who spams your game to jams it does not qualify for will build a bad reputation. You may get banned from being able to take part in those jams in the future, even if you were planning to follow the rules for a future submission. Before submitting to any jam be sure to read all the rules and make sure your game qualifies.

I have not seen anything so far that would disqualify your game from this jam. I just wanted to point out that it looks bad when you spam many jams you don't qualify for, and plenty of people will skip your game as soon as they see that. Were this not our jam, we would likely have move on from your game as soon as we saw the submissions to jams that disqualified you. My first thought when I saw the list was questioning if we were going to need to remove your submission. I'm happy to see that you are already active in the jam leaving feedback, and that you do have an actual game submitted.

The other thing that stood out was the color choice. The yellow on red can be hard to read. If you want to keep yellow and red, I would suggest adding a bit more contrast. Make the red a bit darker. The yellow might be able to be a bit lighter as well, but I think the darker background would be the bigger help for readability.  It will also help with the links, such as to your devlog, which are a pinkish color and really hard to see against the red background.

Speaking of devlogs, you don't need to fill out all the fields to submit to this jam. Only the first is required. The rest are optional. You can click on the "Edit this submission" button and remove your "devlog not ready" text until you have one ready to put there.

(+1)

Hi! Thanks for your review.

I admit i spammed my game in a lot of James, and i know that i'll probably not be able to join much more in the future. I spammed all those Jams when i just joined Itch (some days ago) and i didn't know i had to start a new game and not continue one for Jams, i thought they were just something to promote my game. Altough this won't apologize the fact that that i shouldn't have spammed my game like that, so i agree with you if you want to ban my game from this jam because you would be absolutely right.

I'll try to remove my submissions from the Jams i'm still able to

Have a good day and sorry for the inconvenience

(+1)

Our jam is about feedback, and improving our games and ourselves. I've not seen anything in your submission so far that violates our rules, so I do not see a need to ban it or you. Since you have learned about jams and are working to improve in the future, you are doing exactly what this jam is all about! We will give your game a play when we do our next round of game plays, which will probably be closer to the end of the month.

(+1)

Thank you very much, I will do my best not to make mistakes like these again.

Have a good day!