Yo fellas, the jam is over. We have the results!
I have a proposition on how to make this jam even better next time. Hear me out:
The submissions tab should only show you 1 random submission at a time, which you are forced to review before you're able to see another submission. This will ensure that all submissions get enough traffic to have a fair shot at winning. What do you fellas think?
Hi, thanks for the feedback. This used to be a feature back in the very early days of OST Composing Jam, but it has a bug that if you select an operating system (because itch.io is designed for games, not soundtracks) it will only show submissions that are tagged with that OS, and because soundtracks do not run in Windows, Mac, or Linux, none of the submissions will show up. It is also not possible to change your OS after selecting, so it was quickly removed. I have tried contacting the admin of itch.io about it, but they said it would not be worth implementing the feature as only our jam would use it and it costs resources for them to implement something new. But, because OST Composing Jam have grown so much over the past years, I can try asking them again. Hope this answers your question. ^^
The issues of implementing this are understandable, but it is true that I don't think everybody had a chance to be judged. I am pretty sure the judges did not go through 655 submissions and only went with the top ones.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like popularity was the main criteria for even getting noticed.
