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What are the rating criteria for the published game?

A topic by mcmjbhz created 3 days ago Views: 123 Replies: 2
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Are the other four rating criteria (apart from the theme) each used to pick the best game in that category? I guess the number of ratings a game gets won’t have a big impact on this, right?(It's my first time joining a game jam, so I don't really know much about it.)

Submitted

Yes and no! 

All the rating categories are used together to rank games in the overall rankings; so you have a list for each individual category (theme ranking, fun ranking, etc.) as well as an overall ranking. This means even if a game is amazing but had no audio it might lose out in that category and therefore have a smaller score in the overall ratings.

Games that get less than the median number of votes (which is 9 currently but might change) will suffer some score reduction, but otherwise a game that got rated 11 times and a game that got rated 111 times will both be calculated by the average of their votes from what I understand.

Submitted(+1)

ty!