Off-topic submissions

A topic by Kemp created Dec 11, 2020 Views: 316 Replies: 11

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I've noticed people are submitting videogames to the jam. Some seem genuinely proud of their work and possibly misunderstood the jam. Others didn't even answer the submission question. I know some people just submit their game to every jam they can as a bad form of marketing (I've seen games with literally hundreds of jams in their submission lists).

The rules don't explicitly say tabletop games only, but I assume that was intended to be implied by the name of the jam?

A quick glance found these, just checking the ones that had a videogame-y thumbnail or no summary text: OOO, Lone Army, snake, Move with Moons, Blorb enters the eye of the universe, Inday, Finding Silly, Ari, CreepyBoratory, Croft Freezer, Space Battle, Box-ing

Peach Garden GamesHostSubmitted3 years ago

Yeah, this is something I've been thinking about too. I think you're right.

Ultimately, the rules say "anything goes", so I'm hesitant to tell people "anything goes but that". Strictly speaking, it's not against the rules. That said, you're right - there are definitely some entries that seem maybe a little bit hasty?

So I'm honestly a little bit at a crossroads on this! I wasn't expecting this jam to take off the way it has (though I'm extremely excited and grateful that it has).

Does anyone else have any thoughts on the topic?

Peach Garden GamesHostSubmitted3 years ago

I've updated the rules to specify analog content only, and made the summary line mandatory! Hopefully that will make things clearer.

Floatingtable GamesSubmitted3 years ago

I'm not one of the people who did a video game (mine is an essay and guide to basic game design). What will happen to the other submissions?

Kemp3 years ago

I can't speak for whether it'll be removed as that's not at all my choice, but an essay on videogame design seems like an odd fit for a tabletop RPG showcase.

Floatingtable GamesSubmitted3 years ago

an essay about game design is one of the examples they gave for submissions!

Kemp3 years ago

Two important words in my post were "videogame" and "tabletop". Either way, it's not my decision.

The Best Nerd3 years ago

I feel very oblivious right about now.

I had a bit of a late night last night, and when I woke up today, for some reason checking out the game jams on here was the first thing that came to mind. I saw this, and having just released my first game, I decided that a showcase jam would be the perfect place to put it. There didn't seem to be time restraints other than the deadline, or any sort of reward (I just wanted people to play it), so I figured it would be a great idea. I checked over the rules thrice before joining and submitting and somehow missed the part on it being analogue until after I submitted the project. Would there be any way to pull the submission out? Sorry for the hassle, I can see I'm not the only one to make a similar mistake and that must be rather problematic.

AdamStrange3 years ago

its a showcase jam - then you change the rules.

A better suggestion would be to cancel it - CHANGE THE NAME to reflect this is a jam for ONLY paper entries, etc

Kemp3 years ago (1 edit)

To be fair, the name always said that. TTRPG = Tabletop RPG.

Plus you can look at submissions and see that pretty much all of them are exactly that.

Jack Mordred3 years ago

Hello,

Sorry but your itch.io Jam's name it's "Showcase Jam 2020", only the Twitter name is "TTRPG".

You made a little mistake, I think, so most of the TTRPG games must come from the Twitter. And You are not clearly visible as a TTRPG Jam on the calendar, it's sad for you.

I almost made the mistake twice so it's not really clear, and I always read the rules :).

Whatever it's cool to have a TTRPG Jam even if you can't count on me to do a Narrative thing in English language :).

Kemp3 years ago

(It's not my jam)

Did the name get changed? I'm quite sure it had TTRPG in the name originally.

There's a proper rule there now anyway.