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Why did people give us many 1 star ratings?

A topic by HanseArt Games (Tim) created Sep 30, 2022 Views: 432 Replies: 7
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Submitted

It's weird, I never gave another project less than 3 stars in any category. We spent a lot of time on our game in those 2 weeks, the ratings feel a little odd. :( 20% of our ratings were 1 star, 13% 2 star.  

When I commented on games, I usually gave them lots of feedback and criticism instead of just being positive. Do y'all think that was a mistake? I really want to see game jams as a place of improving and feedback, yet if giving feedback risks people hating on our game then I'd rather not give criticism and suggestions at all... 

I don't know, maybe our game did deserve 1 star ratings. Guess we'll have to improve. 

I still want to thank everyone for playing it! :) It's been fun anyway.

Host

Hey sorry guys! Your game looks really cool.

It's important to share criticism with a positive spin if you can.

Thanks for participating in the jam!

Submitted(+1)

Thank you for the good feedback!

absolutely! I always try to do that. But some people can take feedback better than others I guess. Anyway, it was a fun jam. Thank you for hosting it :)

Submitted (1 edit)

Hey don't worry too much about it. Voting others down is maybe just a strategy to boost themselves for some people. We also have 4.5% one-star reviews. That is out of 26 ratings. I imagine here and there someone just voted 1 star on everything w/o playing. All comments on our game were very positive and criticism was always constructive. If there are low votes without an explanation, you can ignore them in a jam setting imho.

Submitted

Edit: Just read through your comments on other people's games and can confidently say that a normally adjusted person shouldn't have any problems with the way you phrase your critique. That's about the tone I try to strike as well, when critiquing.

Submitted

thanks for your insights. Yeah, who knows what caused it. I just feel like it kinda ruins the spirit of game jams when you're not really honest and only say good thing or only say bad things about something. I mean I want people to improve after all.

But if someone voted almost all projects badly then maybe our positions is deserved after all. Although 15%+ 1* votings seems quite suspicious.

Still, I was happy that we were able to participate in the first place..:) 

Submitted(-1)

I don't know if this is how things usually are in firth jams, but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Every comment I got on my game was either fun game or not fun game not very constructive at all. Also having cozy autumn as a rating category is extremely restrictve it forces people to basically make games based on selling pumpkin spice lattes at a cozy cafe. Not My Style At All. Its probably my fault tho I wasn't aware that making a somewhat stressful game about dodging nuts would get my ratings bashed in the cozy category.

Submitted

something was definitely bizarre with the voting