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So many questions

A topic by JK5000 created Oct 10, 2019 Views: 181 Replies: 2
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Hello Xavier EkkelJames Earl Cox III and everyone

I finally found and read the email from you ( Xavier EkkelJames Earl Cox III) about the bundle. The email did of course ended in my spam filter, so I have first read now. So I believe that now has the jam ended, but I still have a lot of questions about the email and jam. So here we go:

  1. The email said that I was suppose replay to it to get a change to win some games.  But replay to "postmaster@itch.io" will most likely not send a message to ( Xavier EkkelJames Earl Cox III)'s emails.  So how was I suppose to replay?
  2. I am not really sure that I really understand the idea with the bundles. I mean is it really so difficult to download the games one by one? And does it not make it harder to find the place where you can  give feedback on the games?
  3. When jam started it was the idea that some streamers/You Tubes was suppose to play the games. Is this still happening? Do they only play the games form the bundles? (I mainly asks because my game is not in the bundles)
  4.  Even though my game is not in the bundle, should I not have been in the Credits file?
  5. The jam finally ended 2019-07-31 and the bundles was first done 2019-10-08. I believe a lot people have forgot and perhaps even lost interest in the jam with this long delay. Have you never considered stopping making the bundles, and instead just made the players download the games the way the were uploaded to jam?

I really wonder what happened with this jam. For me the idea for the jam was super cool, and I have played most of the games in the jam. I really liked seeing the unfinished games you have made. But the way I see it, there has not been a lot of interest from a lot of the other participants in the jam. And perhaps some of the reason for this is that they have waited for the bundles to be made, and now where the bundles has been made, I wonder if anyone still are interested in going back to the jam. And perhaps like in my case their emails has also been thrown in the spam filter.

Regards JK5000

HostSubmitted(+1)

Hi JK5000!

Thanks for the questions :)

The email had a 'replyto' email (my email) which you would have been able to reply to (I got plenty of replies so I know it works) - it shouldn't be ending up in spam filters, but that would vary by the email service you use and whether they view emails from itchio as spam.

You make a good point about the bundles - and we also underestimated the work it would take to put it together. Some people would find it easier downloading it all at once, but you're right that it makes it harder to find the place to give feedback. We're definitely rethinking how/if we'll do a bundle next time.

The bundle's credits file was only for the games that are in the bundle. People can still see the jam page for the full list of submitted games (and their associated creators).

Still planning to at least get some let's players on board now that the bundle is done, although as with any big jam, there isn't any guarantee that all entries will be played.

Feel free to send me an email if you have any further questions! (I'll also let you claim a prize since you went to the effort of making this post)

Submitted

Thank you for respond to my questions.