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If I may make a suggestion, perhaps you should spread out the packs more. I think part of the reason he gets burnt out is he gets sent packs of like 20 games every week and he has to go through all 20 all at once. If he instead did packs of say, 10 games every week or every other week, it might alleviate the burn out even if it takes longer to get through. This would also allow room for him to get addicted to a particular game for 20 minutes and still avoid shafting other games.

Considering that the only "prize" for these jams is getting shown on stream for 5 minutes, I think we should look for solutions to include as many games as possible rather than start excluding them. Just my thoughts.

You're right, ultimately the judges do pick whatever they want to send Vinny, and Vinny has no idea about the itch.io scores. It just kinda peeves me seeing the way the automated scores are handled because it makes my game much harder to find on itch.io itself even if it scored well from the people who played it (unless you sort by audio, in which case we're on page 2). Thankfully, the judges seem to include a couple of the lower ranked games in the packs instead of just the high ranking ones, so it hopefully may still get shown on stream. 🤞 

I made a similar mistake, I think more people would've played and rated ours if I had been able to make a web build. Unfortunately, I wanted to try Unity's HD renderer, and found out too late it can't publish to WebGL, so I would've had to rebuild all of the graphics and shaders to do that.

Thanks for holding this again! I got a chance to make a proper game with a team after I didn't have as much time for it last year. There were a lot more submissions this year, looking forward to checking out more of them and seeing them on stream!

For next year, I don't know if there's a way to make it so the game ratings aren't adjusted on a curve, because it feels like my game got punished hard by not as many people rating it. The raw score I got from people who played and the judges was actually really good, but after it was "adjusted" by the average number of ratings it went way down. Maybe make it so only the judge ratings count in the final score so it isn't weighed off of one game getting 35 ratings and another getting 10? Just a thought, I know it's all just for fun anyway!

Very interesting little RPG-esque game. I liked the character switching mechanic affecting the way they see the world. The visuals and creativity are very strong there, and the "duck world" was a good use of the duck theme. For things to improve on, I felt that the audio could've been more varied than just ambience and there could have been more sound effects. I also felt that every minigame was too simple and not really a "puzzle," but that's probably due to the game jam's time constraints. Add more depth to the gameplay and it's sure to be a hit.

Might be too late, but I could use some more ratings on my entry before voting ends today: https://fireshock20.itch.io/the-grey-leno-show-live
Let me know if you played it and I'll play yours.

Glad you enjoyed it! If I had more time I definitely would've added more dialogue and adjusted the game flow. Thanks for playing!

You're welcome, there's now a "Parody Edition" under the downloads that features the altered names.

Would it also work to come up with parody/silly last names for them instead of just removing them? Like if I just made it Justin Beaver which Grey Leno already calls him anyway?

Sure, I thought that joke would be fine since I took it from Vinny's Best of Grey Leno video: https://youtu.be/VzNDmsiiX1A?t=877

But if all I need to do is remove his last name I'll get on that. There shouldn't be anything else controversial, but here's a list of the possible jokes in the "Celebrity" category. There's only 4 and I think the rest should be fine as they're also from Vinny's videos, otherwise let me know if anything else needs to be changed.

https://pastebin.com/rSN1LRxU

Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for the feedback! It was definitely a challenge to try to find the right balance of health for the enemies, I didn't want them to be too easy to defeat. If I had had more time I think I could've gotten more dialogue in and fine tuned it a bit more.

Thanks for the feedback! Due to the conversations being randomized it is possible to get the same interview dialogue repeatedly. I may be able to add a quality of life thing where if you get the same one repeatedly it'll ensure you'll get something different. 

I'm aware of those issues, I left a note on the page that there's some bugs I'm working on. I should have a bugfix update out later today, I hope you'll give it a look again afterwards! Thanks though!

Edit: The update is out which addresses these issues!

Hello, I was at work all day so I missed the initial window and then I had a bunch of bugs to fix before I could build it. Could I get a late submission link?

https://fireshock20.itch.io/the-grey-leno-show-live

Hello, it's kind of last minute but if you still need someone to work with I'd be happy to work with you. I'm a team of 1 right now but I'm a semi-professional game dev doing design, programming, art etc and I participated in the ShroomJam last year.

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Hello, I'm a semi-professional jack of all trades game dev. I was thinking about doing another solo project this year but last year I got some feedback that I could've used more music and sound effects. It's a bit last minute but if you still need someone to work with, I'd be happy to work with you.
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Thanks, glad you liked it!

Thanks a bunch Mono! Yeah, if I had had more time I would've done more work on the level and put in SFX for everything. I definitely would like to keep working on it.

Thank you!

Thanks!

Hey thanks a lot! I'm happy to hear I nailed the N64 look. I actually just fixed a bunch of bugs, so falling out of the map like that should properly reset you if it happens. 👍

Thanks!

Hi, I tried to submit mine before the deadline and I thought it went through, but I don't see it in the list of submissions so I wonder if I did it wrong. Mine is here: https://fireshock20.itch.io/cartridge-tilt