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Hi!! There are so many cool devs here so if anyone wants to collab in the future here's my twizzler: https://twitter.com/olezha_wow 
or you can dm me on discord .o . @olezha_wow

i am also maybe gonna make a devlog on my youtube https://youtube.com/@olezha_wow :D

Your game is amazing! Of course it's in the top 20! But still congrats! :D

Words can't describe how amazingly deep and cunning (idk what this word means) has my experience been with "Cutie Conquest". This game, no, work of art poses a question of deep and cunning (still dk) "why? why not make a game so fun, that it lingers on in your memory for years on end..." And it answers that question very deeply and cunningly (idc idk).

Overall all I can say is that this game is very deep and very cunning (i'll never know).

5 Stars!

Honestly shocking! I've worked in Ren'py before and I could not imagine that you could do such complex and fun things with this engine! And the art is also amazing! Such a great experience!

What exactly will the judges evaluate?

With the updates, by "in the meantime" do you mean before the stream (the moment Mousey plays it) or is there another moment that signifies the end of "in the meantime"? Like when she's gonna download all the downloadable games for example, or when jam hosts are gonna review the games etc.

I'm really glad to hear that! Thank you! 💖

Such a lovely experience! My favourite bit is Mousey's ice cream design! 5 stars all the way!

I think a good solution for that would be to let people decide on their favourite games, then give the devs like a couple of days or a week to update the games if they want to, and only after that check them, so that noone gets in anything nasty.

Like, again, in the Monke Jam, Monkeet did get into the stream with an update, which means that the mods didn't check the games immediately after the voting was over, hence devs should have a period to be able to improve their upcoming "judgment by Mousey and chat day" experience. After all the monke jam stream didn't happen right after the voting period ended, it took a few weeks, so maybe with this one there should be some time as well.

I do see why now this is a complicated question, since it wasn't considered before, but i hope that if there are going to be more jams in the future, that this question will be answered in the rules from the start. Like I understand the concern of the hosts, since it's their first game jam (most of them didn't even have an itch.io account before), but the updating post-voting period really shouldn't be one of them, as it's not a problem in the wast majority of other game jams. With this one being so similar to the Monke Jam, and that one also did not have a problem with updates. :D

I don't really see why the voting would need to be redone, since the top 20 would already be decided and it would allow the finalists to fix anything they wouldn't want the stream to see. I guess we can't avoid the comparison to the Monke Jam, ran by Connor (CDawgVA), LordKyubae and StellenCopy. One of the winners of that game jam, "Monkeet" by "byXToGo", had an update before Connor did his stream with the jam submissions, which allowed for a better game and stream experience for both Connor and his viewers. And this update did not loose byXToGo their #10 spot based on the voting period, since the rules didn't say anything against it. And just like with Monke Jam, Mouse Jam's rules specifically say that the updates aren't allowed DURING the voting period (...you may not submit any work or updates during the voting period.), and there's not a single word about post-voting period updates. And changing the rules mid-voting would be kinda nasty, since everyone has already read the rules on the main page of the jam, why would anyone re-read them and find a new rule? And you can't expect everyone to read this specific community board...

Another great example would be "monke girlfriend wants FRUIT!" by "Brewed Leaves" and "MatcheboxMox", who are actually participating in Monkey Jam with "Cutie Conquest". These devs have made some small bugfixes DURING the voting period. And they still got the #12 spot and got to be played on stream on Connor. 

And if someone who doesn't get to the top 20, updates their game and it becomes awesome and considered by many to be worthy of the prize or being played by Mousey, well too bad, since THAT IS against the rules, cause it didn't get into the top 20 DURING the voting period.

Also if the top 20 games (aka the results tab) will be hidden initially like with the Monke Jam, there won't be a way for devs to tell that they've made it to the finals, so they'll have little to no ulterior motive to put in something nasty in the game, knowing that they'll get to show something that wasn't planned on stream, cause they won't know that they'll make it to the stream.

I guess it's mostly my opinion, but if it'll be considered i guess it'd be really nice for the devs, since quite a few of the participants who I've talked to want to make some animation or performance or bug fixes. It's not that they're submitting a drastically different game, they are submitting a BETTER experience with the SAME GAME.

TLDR - Post-Voting Updates aren't forbidden by the rules, and if they are now, they shouldn't be, cause the updates wouldn't interfere with the voting results and would allow for a better stream and overall jam experience for everyone involved. Also banning them now would be pretty much impossible, cause not every dev is gonna see this community post.

In the rules it is said no updates DURING the voting period, so I belive you are allowed to update the game the second the voting ends. At least that's what I'm planning to do .o .

God this was amazing! I say that a lot, but one of the best games in the jam! Very unique, very fun. Love the combination of weak Ironmouse and the all-powerful Mecha. Art is charming, music is great. My only complaint could only be addresed to me, cause it took me a while to beat the final boss.

Oh, and I love the animations of the Mecha so much!!1!

Such a great and polished experience, love it!

Oooh! Thank you, that answers my question :D <3

Truly one of the best submissions to this jam! The styx, the animations, the gameplay - everything is just so hillarious and creative!
I personally was originally gonna make a really similair idea (here's a sketch of that even), where Mouse used Bubi as a surf board! And I'm really happy to see someone execute it this well!

All in all it was such a lovely experience!

p.s. (If you rated my non-surfing game it'd mean the world to me :D)

So you can sort the submissions by either "Popular" or "Most rated". I'm not sure, but it looks like the most rated gives you games with most rating even if all of them are 1 star ones, and the poular one gives you the best rated games even with less ratings, but like, all 5 stars.

Like one of the Most Rated games is THE LEAST popular one. Which means it got a lot of bad ratings.

So how will the top 20 be formed in the end?

This was a really cute experience! It's really easy to understand what you are supposed to do. Now what's not easy for me is apparently runner games like these (it's not the game's fault, it's mine...). My favourite bit is the way the gremlins go flat after you jump on them! :D

It's really cute and gives you what is says it'll give you. Which is great!

p.s. (it'd be great if you'd also rate my game :D )

Thank you! Yes it is glue, i don't have a reason for why it's there 💀

Yep, after you get the key and use it on the door the game is over. It was supposed to have a cutscene but i didn't have time to make one sadly :c

Coming from such a cool gamedev as yourself this means A LOT!! THANK YOU 💖💛💖💛💛💖💛💖

I'm glad you liked it! I did plan for a cutscene after that, but i just didn't have time to draw it 😭 If you ever want to revisit this game - I'll totally make an update with an ending to the demo AND i will be making it a full blown thing so that's also cool i think 😎

I'm in awe! This game immediatly showed what it wants to be and it executes that perfectly! Smarty-pants words aside, i had a great time. While I wanted to just quickly check it out I played it all the way through and enjoyed every little bit of it! The ending blew me away, and the opening story was also so nice. The art is so adorable and nice and funny.

This might be a weird kind of a compliment, but trust me, it means that i think you're really cool - I would love to work on a game with you guys. (and if u r like up for the hastle then like, hit me up or smth, maybe >.<)

TLDR - I love it, and I want more games made by you!

I'm a bit confused about the new dates. Since we already know the theme can we work on the game this entire month, starting now, or should we just patiently wait till the submissions open to start working on our games?

gigachad execution, if there was just more time you could turn this into a great and fun vn adventure!