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I’m not sure what you mean about the topic of the project, I do explain exactly what the research project is in the first line of the blurb at the top of the form?

I’m also uncertain quite how big an issue this is – you’re the first to raise these sort of concerns and I’ve posted this in a lot of places and gotten a fair amount of respondents by now – but I suppose it’s good to play it safe! I’ll take it into account if there’s a next time, thank you.

I understand the worry about scam surveys, hopefully I can clear up some of your concerns:

1) Students do get different domain emails than staff and the random numbers in the email address is my student number. (I’d much rather they used our names but that’s just the way the university assigned emails are.) It says as much on the TU Dublin website in a few places:

https://www.tudublin.ie/for-students/student-login/city-centre/

https://www.tudublin.ie/emailproject/students/

2) When you send a link to a Google survey, it gives you the option to shorten the URL. The (very long) original URL is docs.google but when you shorten it, it becomes forms.gle . You can check this yourself if you have a google account.

3) Posting a survey online like this does of course mean people can answer falsely or inaccurately, it’s one of the major downsides of anonymous surveys! But this method does also have its strengths and isn’t too uncommon for research like mine, and this isn't the only research method I'm using for the project. Either way, that does seem more a question about the validity of my results than whether the survey is a scam.  

Thank you!

Hi, if there’s anything I can do to help confirm this is a student research project please let me know. If there’s way to privately message it, I could send a picture of my student ID to a mod? (Or even my dissertation notes/outline? I don't think scams generally include a few months worth of literature review.)

As you mentioned, the survey doesn't ask any personal questions or collect identifying data.

Hi there, I’m a game design student from Ireland and I’m writing a dissertation about game jams. (And hoping this research might be useful for running some jams in the future!)

If you’ve ever taken part in, organized or even just are interested in game jams, and have about 5 to 10 minutes to spare then I’d really appreciate it if you could answer a few questions.

Here's the link to the survey!

If all goes well, I'll be able to share the summary of the results in case they're helpful or interesting to anyone else!

Ha no worries, I'd love to come back to this and add more details (and endings!) eventually but right now I'm working on other games.

That works too, thanks!

Thanks, that's definitely what I was going for! (Though would you mind editing your comment to not spoil the surprise for other people too? I'd really appreciate it!)

Ah that'd explain it. This was made with Unity before it started supporting Chromebooks. Sorry!

Glad you think so!

If you download the file and unzip it, you should find the playable exe.

It's a cool story, left me with a lot of questions after my first play through! The ambient music is really effective in creating atmosphere.

Looks like a lot of fun! Really love the strengths and weaknesses, very thematic and I could see players getting real creative with them. “Your taste in clothes is literally – literally – distracting” is just brilliant. I wonder a bit about if the “no compromise, your way or else” weakness encourages antisocial play but it’s probably fine so long as you have the right group.

I’ll be adding this to my emergency reserve of one-RPGs for when we can’t run our usual campaigns for sure!