Congrats to everyone who managed to get their game in on time! I hope this experience was of some value to you all in one way or another, for me the thing that game jams really helped me with is developing rapid prototyping, idea generation, and of course planning a reasonable scope for the development cycle!

Ultimately the aim of the jam is just to get you guys making something, it doesn't have to be great; it doesn't have to be polished; it doesn't have to be long; it doesn't even have too be finished - it just needs to be some kind of playable game. Having said that - I have been following most of the groups in their development cycles throughout the jam, and from day one the bar was set incredibly high. I honestly did not expect such polished, well-thought out, and complete games entries - you have all thoroughly impressed me and made me incredibly proud!

So now we have the voting period, during this period you should all try play and rate all of the other jam entries. The voting period is open for a couple of days, and then when it ends itch will automatically publish the results of the jam - at which point we will be able to see who the winners of the jam are!

Also if you want to make an 'Update' for your game even though the jam has ended, there is nothing stopping you from doing so! I would only ask that you keep the original game jam submission version available on the itch page, and make sure that this version is clearly marked as the original jam version of the game. Itch allows you to have multiple builds of your game available, so you should be able to upload game updates as separate builds to the original version.

If you are wondering how you can be marked as a contributor to your game project, the person who has uploaded and submitted it to the jam on itch.io has to go to the games dashboard (edit game) - and then go to the Admin menu. From there you can generate links for people to be marked as contributors to your game which will also allow you to vote on other submissions in the jam. You will need to provide your itch.io username to this person in order for them to generate the link.

If you joined the jam and did not submit anything but would still like to vote on the games, you can leave a comment here and I will mark you as a Judge so that you can vote on the games. You will need to accept a link that I generate for your username specifically.