Can we reuse code and assets made before the jam ?
Hello, I really love the jam theme and started making a game. I’m a GNU/Linux user, and I don’t have the time to setup and rage on a Win10 VM. My question is: Is it allowed to submit a game to this game jam without Windows binaries? I can build for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD if I have time, and will include sources. A competent Windows dev should be hable to find out how to build it ─ I’m not.
Thanks in advance, I wish you have a nice day.
Yes, sure, it is allowed to do that. Just note that will probably quite heavily affect the amount of people who will test your game. Asking people to download and unzip just a single file can be a stretch sometimes. I doubt anybody will create a win build just to test it. I still absolutely encourage you to go ahead with your plan, just wanted to set your expectations straight. Good luck. :)
My game isn't downloadable from before, it's neither a zip file... ( https://itch.io/jam/wowie-jam-3/rate/940981 for you to understand what I am trying to say. The actual game is appearing at the top left, very small - although the actual itch.io game page frame is much bigger than that.. That place is being left grey... Whereas in my first project works perfectly fine, in which all the game settings are same as of this (except title, genre, tags, and description) , it is not working...
Hello Jonas! I have submitted my game called Failing Space : Second Chance to wowie jam 3. But for some reason when I go on other people's submission it says :
"You are unable to rate this project because you have not submitted your own entry. You can leave a comment below though."
Can you please help?
Thank you!
Hey Jonas! I was wondering if you could tell me why my game won't show up in any category except for all? https://c0d3d.itch.io/inhabitant It should be under pc but since it isn't it won't get played since few people rate in all categories. Any info would help! Thanks!
Go here - https://itch.io/jam/wowie-jam-3/entries . Now Click on any game you want to rate. Now you will find a 'Rate for Wowie Jam 3.0' on the top right of that game page. Click on that. You will be taken to a webpage. You will find 7 sections with 5 stars in each. According to each category, select the number of stars. Then Click 'Save rating' (Below those sections) and you are done!
I would like to make a review on my youtube channel of my favourite games of the jam at the end of it. I have 2 questions:
1) Who do I need to credit in the youtube video description? Only the Game name and the developers or do I also need to mention the musician/Artists that the devs credited in their videos? Do i need to make a link to their submission page or is it up to me if I want to do that?
2) Do I need any form of consent from the Devs to make a video about their games?
In my personal experience no developer will ever complain about somebody showing off their game in a YouTube video. The more credit you give, the happier they'll be about it. The music thing is not that big of a deal, you just gotta make sure not to play any music that'll get your channel copyright striked. Giving credit usually doesn't change much about that.
The more ratings I get, the less popular I get...
Is that normal ? I feel like if I did not advertised my game so much I would still be in the top 20. Not asking about the quality of my game ^^` but I wonder if I did the right thing since a lot of games more popular than me have less than 35 ratings and I'm over 100.
Hello, Jonas!
Just wanted to first say that this game jam was incredibly fun! Thanks for hosting it :D
My question is, I know you said it's fine to add a version for different platforms and fix urgent bugs after the submission period is over. I did that I added a webGL version and fixed a few bugs. But as I did that I added a restart button just in case anyone runs into any bugs I didn't notice.
Is it fine for the addition of that button, or should I remove it?
Yo Jonas!
My question for you is: Since you are going to make a youtube video out of this, and you posted that the video is coming up "soon", when do you usually start playing the games and getting content for your video, is it during the start of the rating period (monday / tuesday) or at the end / after the rating period?
I also have questions about the scoring so I can understand it better for next time.
In nearly each category there are games with less than the average number of ratings in the top 5. Does getting less but higher quality ratings lead to a higher score?
The results page says our scores are adjusted from raw scores based on the medium ratings, despite getting higher than the medium ratings, my score == raw score. How does this work?
Was there a karma system involved?
I'm not jonas, but if this jam works like others I've been in I might know how it works.
The median was 10 ratings, and it reduces your score if you have less than the median, but doesn't change it if you have more than median. So you would only get your score reduced if you have less than 10.
That's why I wouldn't buy into the whole getting your game rated as much as possible craze, unless it is solely for the purpose of getting as much feedback as possible. In every single big jam I've joined (except one), the winner has been a game with just barely enough ratings to avoid getting their score adjusted. So yeah, essentially getting less but more quality ratings does lead to a higher score, because there's less of a chance for more people to see it and rate it poorly.
Hope this answered some of your questions, but then again the scoring system doesn't really matter so I wouldn't but too much stake in it, it's more about if you got quality feedback and learned from the jam