Acerola Jam submissions have concluded! Please keep reading for information on community engagement.
In case you forgot, the games with the best ratings will be pooled and polled during the judging stream to decide who wins the community's choice award, so be sure to play lots of games and give your feedback! But, please keep in mind the following safety information:
Unfortunately, because game jam games are just random .exes, windows will flag nearly if not all the downloaded submissions as suspicious or viruses. This is okay and normal! You can run them anyways. But, malware submissions are a possibility! Please be mindful of what you download and run. If this is a concern to you I would wait a few days for any potentially harmful submissions to be removed, or stick to games that run in the browser. Games with high ratings are most likely safe, but please understand that we want everyone to have a chance so if only the popular games get played then that sort of reinforces the popularity. I will be posting games I really like in the jam-highlights channel in my discord server to give a bit of a spotlight, so please keep a watchful eye.
Now, if you're a nerd and know how to do virtual machine stuff, I really need your help!! I cannot reasonably test all of the submissions myself in a timely manner so I need as many people as possible to sift through the submissions in a safe environment to find any malware. If you can find a malware submission, I'll give you a cool role or something for your service.
Next, if you suspect a submission has broken the rules, please DO NOT talk about that in the forums or discord server and instead dm me about it personally on discord. I do not want anyone feeling bad about what they've made because someone else thinks their art kind of looks ai generated or something else is off. I do not want to foster a community that points fingers like that, so please, keep any suspicions private to you and me. We're here to praise people for their legitimate hard work, keep it positive and constructive.
Lastly, thank you so much to everyone who submitted a game today and honored my best friend. If we do another jam it probably won't be during this same time period, so this one was very special and you should be proud of your accomplishment. I'm very excited to see what everyone made!
Okay now go play the games