Post by erdogantaskurt in I suspect that someone may be attempting to cheat by leaving comments on numerous games without actually playing or rating them properly.

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I spent a good couple of days diving into playing and voting on the games during the initial phase. And you know, it struck me that it's completely reasonable to kindly ask others to check out my game and provide their thoughts. Being a developer, I'm truly invested in getting my game out there, connecting with as many players as possible, and genuinely understanding their feedback. To be honest, snagging a prize isn't my main objective; I'm genuinely looking to establish a connection between players and my game. Requesting feedback definitely doesn't qualify as cheating – it's a privilege that everyone is entitled to exercise. I hope this helps clarify my perspective!

I also want to bring up that, despite having limited time to work on my own game, I dedicated a whole day to creating YouTube tutorials aimed at assisting fellow participants in the game jam. Trust me, if my primary concern was winning a prize, I wouldn't have taken the time to do this.

YouTube Tutorials:

Retro-Bit Bandit287 days ago

It seems like you misunderstood my point, and that might be on me I should have been more clear. I am not against people asking for feedback in the comment sections as long as they have played and rated the game properly, you are absolutely right that is a totally reasonable thing to do. I am trying to say that people should play through the games properly, it is not fair in any regard no matter the goal to just open the game for 1min just to give the game a first impression comment for then to just move on to the next game to repeat the process, people have spent a lot of time on these games and they deserve proper feedback and ratings. I don't know if you are one of those people, I surely hope not, as I said to someone earlier in this thread I am not going to call anyone out, I just observed something I saw as suspicious activity and wanted to share my thoughts. But I am glad you voiced your perspective to clear out any misunderstandings

marcelozarate287 days ago

> I'm genuinely looking to establish a connection between players and my game

Well, maybe if you aim to do that, you can genuinely establish a connection between you and others game. I don't know if you play the games or not, but commenting "Nice game, well done", is not a genuine feedback, at least on my personal opinion. I coulld paste the same comment on every game and ask for GENUINE connection to MY GAME. I'm not saying is against the rules, it's just that it feels so forced. I don't know if the post refers about you, but I personally don't like comments that take more characters asking for their own game rather than the actual review/feedback.

erdogantaskurt287 days ago

Yes, I agree with your point. It's true that everyone wants specific feedback for their games. I played all of the games in the jam, and you can imagine that it took a lot of time. Writing feedback for each game was really hard for me, especially since there are more than 200 games. I might have repeated myself a few times, but I did try to give special comments to more than 50 games and recommended people who couldn't uploaded games to include links in the comments.

But I do understand your point, and I'll go back and edit my comments to give more feedback where I can. I hope you understand that I didn't mean any harm, and I'm sorry if there was any trouble or mistakes because of this.

Fluburbio287 days ago(+1)

In my opinion, jams are for connecting with devs more than for gathering players, it's to exchange game design ideas and make everyone a little bit more experienced at the end. That's why it's not so pleasant for other devs to feel like they are just "a potential player for this person's game, even though my own game wasn't worth more than a few seconds of their time".

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