My first ever game jam kinda sad knowing that only a handful of people played my game. If you guys are interested you can play it here wish you guys could be me feed back.
Don’t worry. I never received any feedback for my game from the people who put on this whole event, lol. Very disappointed with the way the organizers handled it. Almost feels a bit nefarious (like an attempt to get a ton of people to join their discord to eventually advertise to us).
Regarding your game, I like the premise. The one thing I’ll say that I didn’t enjoy: there’s a lot of downtime where you’re just waiting for the mines to diffuse. In general, you don’t want downtime in your game (especially for such a short game project). I would have considered turning the bomb diffusal stage into a mini game (maybe you have to click at the perfect time or something like that). At least that way you wouldn’t have moments where you are doing nothing.
Also the right click to either “Show” or “Diffuse” seems a bit unnecessary. There would never be a time when you would want to “show” a mine but not “diffuse” the mine, so the pop up could probably be removed altogether.
Finally, I’d add some sort of feedback when the diffusal is complete. A simple sound effect or some small flashy bit near your score just to give that audible and/or visual feedback of success!
Either way, great work!
We were 5 people who willingly took time out of our schedule to provide an opportunity to people looking to gain game design experience. At no point did we expect our first jam (which we didn't even advertise) to garner more than 2400 participants. We could have very easily cancelled the jam, but instead we dedicated 100s of hours EACH to providing feedback on games, answering tickets, paring teams together, and providing mentor support.
The accusation that there was something nefarious was going on is absolutely absurd, especially given the fact that I can very clearly see judge feedback on your submission page, which means you received feedback before the jam period even ended. If you need help locating this feedback, we will be more than willing to help you.
The poster of this feed also received feedback before the end of the voting period. If you do not like your feedback, or would like us to expand upon it, you've had over a month to let us know and we would have been more than happy to provide you additional feedback, as we have done for countless others.