oh nooo emotional blackmail xDDD but “maybe ill submit” is the best i can say… if the theme is really a banger i probably will, right?
the logo truly is a masterpiece ;D
i said i will do something for the jam, so i posted my “submission” here https://itch.io/post/9925831
i really do think the theme of the jam is great and i think it might get some really cool submissions
that being said i cant really make a submission to the jam, which is because of something you wrote
The additional challenges are exactly/especially for you
i know you didnt mean it that way, but that kind of sounds like the theme of the jam is made in such a way that the results would be skewed in my favor. i know thats not actually what would happen, i dont expect i would win or anything, but the way you put it sounds like that, and so i decided not to submit
you started these jams around the time that i started to learn pixel art, and ive taken part i think in most of them. they were big part of my motivation to continue learning pixel art. so i dont want to do something that could in some way (even if its just in my brain) damage the integrity of those jams.
i know the jams might seem “small” right now, but there is already some amazing art that was created as result of them, and i think they have a potential to grow, or maybe pixel art jams even as a trend will grow on itch, and more ppl will start doing them. so i think what youre doing is really cool and worth protecting in this way :)
sorry if this sounds weird, but thats the way i feel and thats my decision 🦧
They are very quality so it you can just not to submit the pack to the jam buy upload it as an asset pack on itch.
I understand your concerns. Your thinking is very correct but there some "but's":
- The main theme is portrait. They are additional
- I wrote those additional themes for you to create a bit of a challenge for you. Because at some point I had understood that you draw portraits often so for you this jam won't be interesting that means there will be one submission less...
- I decided to start adding some random additional themes/restrictions because somewhere in 2-4 jams someone complained about jams are about challenge so "1bit/isometric doesn't give you a seed from where to start"
So I just decided to kill two rabits with one shot. The elementals part is what I wanted to draw and just decided to add it because it is something like theme while the main "theme" of the jam is restriction
The vibrant colors is really a challenge concretely for you. I noticed that you usually avoid them but it is a jam and as I noticed you usually like drawing challenges so I added it as another point