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Congratulations on taking 3rd place! Please give us a contact email address so we can get in touch regarding your prize money!

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Thanks for the update and award! Can you kindly provide an e-mail address to send the details? Should I send it to contact@playgen.com?

It was really interesting to participate in Sugar Game Jam. We worked really hard in order to use all the potential of SUGAR Engine and, as you can see by our list of features, we think we did quite a good job! Without disregarding the effort other jammers made to deliver their games, we feel that the Jam's results are a bit unfair. 
The first concern relates to the fact that itch.io allow users to update games after the deadline is over. As expected, we did not update our game after the deadline to avoid any issue with the results. Although we understand such lack of control is responsibility of itch.io, we would expect the jam's organization to take this into account when judging the entries.
The second issue - and the one that bothers us the most - is the fact that most of the remaining entries of this jam did not follow the proposed theme. Few made references to "sugary sweetness" in the text describing the game, but no concepts related to the theme were included in the actual game. 
As already said, we really appreciate all the contributions made to this jam! A competition is no fun without other challengers! Still, we need to share our thoughts on the entries' evaluation because we feel it was unfair. 

We understand that some developers may fix some bugs after the deadline, but the theme is such a hard constraint for the development of the game that should not be considered so lightly in the game's evaluation.

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Thanks for your concern. We'll take it under consideration should we run further game jams. Please just respond with an email address we can use to organise payment. 

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