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The jam winners were announced on June 5th. 🔍👀

If your team won a prize in the jam, follow the instructions in our latest blog post about the jam:
https://gdevelop.io/blog/winners-gdevelop-game-jam-9

The announcement video is here if you'd like to watch it and see more about the jam:

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YouTube doesn't let us add content to playlists if it's marked as "for kids".

The voting isn't quite finished yet, and then a video for the jam needs to be made.

It will be set to premiere at least 24 hours before it will be released, and we'll share the video link through all of our socials and email to make sure everyone knows when the results will be released. (The current plan is this Friday.)

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No, this has nothing to do with rankings in any way, this is just for fun.

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Definitely, there's no deadlines for this playlist. 👍

Just be sure to leave a new comment here when it's done.

Definitely, there's no deadlines for this playlist. 👍

Just be sure to leave a new comment here when it's done.

Hey folks. 👋

We're putting together a playlist of videos made for/about games in the jam. 👇

GDevelop Game Jam 9 - Community Videos

If you make or know of any devlogs, gameplay videos, or playtesting videos that weren't included in this list, please share the name of the YouTube channel they're on in the comments of this post so we can look them up and add them to the list. 📝

(Please check to see if the video is already on the playlist before commenting.)

As the jam voting period ends, itch will unlock your game pages, and allow you to update your game files, but please do not update your game page for 72 hours (3 days) after the voting period ends. 🚨🚨

This is the time period when the judges will be looking for their favorite games in the jam, now that they've been sorted by community voting, to pick the games that will win the prizes listed under the Judges' Awards section on the jam page.

The community voted rankings, the judges picks, and the favorite games from our guest judges will all be announced in a jam winners video on the GDevelop YouTube Channel.

If you update your game file on itch, and we have no way to properly test your game in the state it was in during voting period, you may be excluded from the judges' voting list.

That's definitely possible.

We mostly focus on making sure the judge voting is done as fairly as possible, because those are easier to control, and those games will get the prizes in the jam. But it would be great if we could improve the accuracy of the community voting too. (Not that it's been a huge problem in the past. The results over the past jams that we've held were pretty fair, with only a little bit of randomness in the results.)

I'll add a note though for the next jam, to consider adding a rule about spamming/low quality review comments during the voting period. 👍

Game jams can be brutal, but the joy of having your game played and receiving some positivity/constructive feedback can make it all feel worthwhile. 😌
 
Consider checking out the "least rated" filter in the jam and giving those games some attention. 🔍👀

(Least rated has nothing to do with their score, it means less people have played/rated their game than other games in the jam.)

Thumbnail, title, screenshots, and how activate a user is in the jam all effect how many people play a game.

Tracking and moderating this sort of thing is unfortunately fairly tricky, since it would be hard to separate people who don't play the games at all from the people who are playing the games, but only very briefly and giving a score based on only a few minutes of gameplay. (That's not ideal either, but everyone is going to spend a different amount of time rating/playing each game.)

This isn't the exact same type of rate-for-rate that I'm asking people to avoid here in the community tab though, because this is (I'm assuming) at least asking people to play their game, and so if they follow that suggestions, the person who's spamming will still have to have a good game in order to get a higher rank because of it. (Total number of votes doesn't really say anything about what scores people have been giving their game.)

The type of rate-for-rate that I think really ruins jams is the kind where two people agree to rate each others games, because one or both people may give scores without ever playing the game, and if several people do that together, they can all end up with scores that don't reflect their game in any way.

We aren't going through the game pages to check each game, but I've been deleting posts here in the community tab that explicitly asks people to swap ratings, along with spam. (And checking whenever a game/post here are reported by other users.)

You can definitely share and promote your games.

The only people who can rate your games are other people who submitted games to the jam, so more players won't change the rankings of games. So feel free to share it if you want more people to see your game. 👍

If you use #GDevelop on whatever platform you share it on, we might see it and share it too. 👍

Theme is one of the categories that games are rated by, so if a game has very little to do with the theme, it will get a lower overall score than a game that is related to the theme.

So don't worry, the theme is one of the things taken into account when winners are picked.

Stop posting your game link in places where it doesn't belong.

I'm deleting your messages for now, but if you continue, we'll have to take action against your game in the jam.

As long as your game is on gd.games and itch.io, you're good.

Adding your gd.games URL makes it easier for us to check that both versions exist, but as long as your itch version got in before the deadline, and your gd.games version is up on the website, you're fine.

But please add the link to your gd.games version in your itch version game page description, so it'll be easier for us to find later. 👍

At this point unfortunately, it's too far beyond the jam submission deadline to add your game to the jam as a game that could win a prize.

But if you DM me on the GDevelop discord server, I can see what I can do to help.

As long as your game is on gd.games and itch.io, you're good.

Adding your gd.games URL makes it easier for us to check that both versions exist, but as long as your itch version got in before the deadline, and your gd.games version is up on the website, you're fine.

But please add the link to your gd.games version in your itch version game page description, so it'll be easier for us to find later. 👍

Yeah, that's why we make sure we have judge voting for the main prizes.

Community voting can do a great job, but if the number of ratings is low, or people try to do rate for rate voting, the results can be very skewed. 😅

I've seen rate for rate spamming ruin the scoring of jams in the past, and I'd like to see a fair and honest jam here.

It's alright to ask someone to play your game if you've played, rated, and gave feedback to their game. But blanket "rate for rate" callouts can really mess with ratings as people try to collect as many ratings as they can without playing/having their own game played.

If I find people posting blanket "rate for rate" posts here, they will be removed. If I find too much of that happening, the community tab will be removed entirely.

The theme that must be considered when making your games for the jam:

If you look back at past GDevelop BIG game jams, you should get an idea of the type of themes we typically like to use.

AI has become a part of many commonly used tools/apps, for things as small as removing background noise from audio to completely generating assets from scratch, and so we won't discourage people from using AI in their games.

Though we do require people to have the legal right to use all of the assets in their game, and we will be putting extra scrutiny on games that make it in front of the judges.

So AI is allowed to be used in the jam, but if you don't have the right to use the assets in your game, you will not be eligible to win a prize from the judges.

You can use any version of the engine, with any extensions or changes made to the engine that you want. 👍

However, this is an unofficial build of GDevelop not made (Or supported) by the GDevelop team, and so using it could expose you to some serious risks. The most important thing is that we can't guarantee it's free of malware. But it also may contain unfinished features, be incompatible with future official versions of the engine, and will not receive support/bug fixes from us.

If you're looking for more 3D features that work with the current version of the engine, I'd suggest checking out Pandako's advanced 3D features extension. (https://pandako.itch.io/a3f) You can get it from the experimental extension list in the engine and use it with the latest stable version of GDevelop, or download the latest version from Pandako through their page on itch.

Hope that helps. 👍

I'm not sure I understand the question.

The time on the jam page right now is the time until the jam begins, the jam page won't accept submissions until after that time.

A new timer will start when the jam begins that will let you know how much time you have to make and submit your game, that's the jam ending deadline, and the jam page won't accept any submissions after that time.

So you can't submit a game before the jam begins or after the jam ending deadline, only during the 9 days the jam is being held.

I hope that helps. 👍

As long as the submitted game is significantly different from the original template, yes. 👍

We have some basic examples of what is allowed on the jam page, but I also tried to better explain it with this pinned comment on discord: https://discord.com/channels/258623956158906368/630511209778774037/1222146236325...

A warning though, if your game isn't significantly different from the game template you originally started with, your game may be disqualified from the jam.

You can use any assets you have the legal right to use.

And CC-licensed assets are all about giving you the legal right to use them. 😅

So I haven't looked up those specific songs you mentioned, but as long as you follow the license and credit your artists, you can use them. 👍