Does the amount of votes matter? Seems like nobody wants to vote for mine so would it matter if it was only 1 vote? could it beat someone with 20 votes?
I'll be voting on all the entries on the weekend when I get a chance to play them - I can only speak for myself, but I was running on 5 hours of sleep per night while I made my entry..because I have a full time job etc. So now I need a little break from the computer, but I'll be back into it on the weekend to play and rate!
Well yeah, the first price and the other prices sure are really sweet, who wouldn't want an Xbox One or a nice copy of Fusion? But the prices aside, what counts in these game jams is the spirit, the spirit of rushing and working seriously and putting your heart into making a game, having an actual deadline and chasing time. It gives you experience and you get to meet some new people and make friends in the game dev/indie game community, you also get the satisfactory feeling that you actually completed a game, a real product in a given deadline and that it is displayed in front of a lot of people to watch and play.
Participate in every Jam you can (this message is for everyone) because it gives you experience, knowledge and it lets you learn some design elements from the winners' games. You will get better and better until one day you will be the one that's leading as the first place.
15 votes means your game is doing great since there are still some with only one vote :)
Last weekend I spent a full day and a half getting through to the end of all the submissions, I am amazed with all of the great games! Everyone should have a rating from me. Exceptions for SCIME, the mikees, and SiXWarALPHA that were unplayable/not available, and of course my own game which I cannot rate myself. I've got 8 ratings which is less than what I would have expected when stacked up with the better games, but the good news is all of us now have 5+ ratings which is enough to give us a good average of 5 stars in each of the three categories, so that we can be judged fairly.
Why my game SCIME is unplayable ?
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At the deadline I noticed that well over 100 people had signed up. Yet only about 1/4 submitted games (34 entrants). To date some entrants have amassed well over 34 people voting for them, and others very little input. I'm curious are these extra members game developers? Or could they be predetermined supporters of some entrants? I'm not great at maths yet this seems to leave a situation where it could be easy to manipulate the voting. Just saying that potentially it could lead to bias. Yet, as that's out of our control, I would encourage all contestants to try out all the games and rate them. There are many fledgling developers that would benefit from constructive feedback.