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2 questions: "offline high score" and can one person do both (explained in body)

A topic by Raphael created Jul 22, 2020 Views: 311 Replies: 5
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I have 2 questions about the rules of the game jam. First, it said the high score system could be online or offline. What exactly do you mean by an offline high score? Like, they just see if their score is higher than other streamers but we don't have to make the game online?

Second, can one person participate in both making a game and streaming? I understand that it would probably be unfair if they played their own game for the second part, and I would also understand if someone who won at all in the first part isn't allowed to play the second so that they can't win again, but if someone's game didn't win could they stream in the latter half of the competition? and if so, would they also be able to stream the other winners if theirs won as long as they didn't stream their own game?

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Offline high-score can just be displaying the score on the screen after the player dies. We have a leaderboard on our website that is updated manually by streamers when then get their highscore, online or not.

And yeah developers can compete in the streamer part as long as they aren't playing their own game.

Submitted(+1)

Oh okay, nice! That's good to know in case I can't figure out a database in time haha

Thank you for a speedy and helpful answer!

Submitted

Sir/Ma’am Where is the website you’re talking about or will it be released at the time of event??

Submitted

wdym? By database i mean coding a database in a node.js game

The rest is in response to this jams description page

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Psst! @Raphael - @Prakul2006 is on about the "leaderboard on our website" that @ScoreSpace mentions :)