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Game Jam Advertisments!

A topic by EDDEN created Jun 04, 2018 Views: 170 Replies: 2
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Hi! I just recently began my first game jam and have been baffled by the amount of people taking advantage of the system. So far three games have been submitted to my game jam, De Space Jam, that broke at least 2 of the rules and were clearly submitted to advertise.  The most recent of which being https://heathcleaf.itch.io/helsingwall, which I know has also broken the roles of the other game jams it has been submitted in. When it happened for the first time I thought the developer just didn't understand what a game jam was, but after having it happen more and more it has become clear that developers are using game jams to market their own games.  I want  to avoid being someone screaming about problems and providing no solutions at all.  There just needs to be something that incentives not to do it. Maybe flag a user after doing this more than once, or keep game jam removal topics on the game site to  make clear that the developer took advantage of such tactics. Honestly I don't have a great solution,  and I can live with just removing it myself. At first I thought it was a small thing that only happened every now and then, but three occurrences in about a week! Its astonishing.

Admin

Hey, thanks for the feedback. I think itch.io can provide better tools about authorizing who is allowed to submit to jams. In the meantime, use the report button on the bottom of a game's page to notify us. We'll take administrative access and remove their jam submitting privileges since it violates our quality guidelines.

Ok, thanks so much!

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