We have reached the end of GBJam12!
Here's the short version:
- The results have been announced
- GBJam13's page is ready and you can join for next year
- GBJam starts on the second Friday of September every year
- Hear about more projects from Polyducks via this newsletter (https://polyducks.co.uk/subscribe - for some reason this link gets broken on itch.io so copy and paste it)
- GBJam's discord will go into hibernation in a week
Results
Please check the site here for the breakdown of the results. Entries are ranked by their different categories as well as an "overall" score. Remember:
- none of these ratings matter
- there were some real high tier games that got passed over for ratings for whatever reason
- voting is an inherently unfair and opinionated process and cannot be fixed with any particular system
- your personal value is not tied to what other people rated your game
- the scores are skewed by the number of ratings they received
Most of all, congratulations for finishing and submitting your work. 399/2287 people submitted this year, which is tons if you consider that most of the people who didn't submit were in a team who did. For those of you who were unable to submit, we hope you learned important information this GBJam that you will be able to apply next year - even if what you learned is that work and family commitments are more important than a game jam. GBJam is all about personal creative development and balancing that with life.
Next Jam
GBJam13's placeholder page is ready. The new illustration has been provided by Batfeula. The page will be updated with more details later in the year, and will see the return of this year's animator DL. Join now to be notified via email a week or two before it starts.
GBJam starts on the second Friday of September every year.
Subscribe To My Newsletter
I run a few other jams and launch games and articles now and again. If you'd like to be the first to hear about these, you can subscribe to my newsletter via this page on my site. I email infrequently.
newsletter (https://polyducks.co.uk/subscribe - for some reason this link gets broken on itch.io so copy and paste it)
The Discord
The Discord will stay open for another week, and then go into hibernation once conversation has died down. We hibernate the Discord every year to reduce it to a single channel for people to ask questions. We do this to reduce the moderation requirements.
And that's everything! I hope you all had a great time and that you'll join us for next year.
Thanks again to the dedicated moderator team. Your moderators this year have been Traslo, timconceivable!, Graf, tatltuae, Poltergasm and Polyducks. They've done another season of sterling work.
All the best,
Polyducks