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🎃 Spooktober Jam 🎃

Hosted by Harman Kamboj, Mochii🌺, WayfarerGames · #spooktober2021
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Question about submission and timings (new in jams)

A topic by Anamura created Oct 15, 2021 Views: 307 Replies: 7
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AnamuraSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

Hello! After many years seeing jams and not being able to participate by a reason or another, this time this jam looks perfect for my intentions, but I have some doubts.

I'll make a very short horror game for halloween, I've planned it since weeks ago. It will be a RPG Maker survival game, I don't want to give more details yet, I just think I could even make it in just 1-2 days since I'll have everything prepared for it. So I have the next questions:

- Submiting the game for the jam, then the game won't be published in my game page until the jam is finished? sorry if the question is weird but I have no idea how this works, I'm just assuming that the game can't be published as public until the jam is ended?

- Based on the answer of previous question...

- If the game can't be shared publicly until the jam is ended, any timings?

Thanks!

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Mochii🌺Jam Host3 years ago(+1)

Hi there, glad you're looking forward to making something for the jam🎃! The way it normally works is that when you submit a game, it automatically gets uploaded onto your itch page too. 

So during the voting period, your game will have a special submission page just for the jam, but there is always a permanent page which is up on your itch account, from the moment you submit. (This permanent page is the one you can customize to look nice and all that) 

This means you don't have to do any timing stuff because itch should handle it all for you 👍 Hope this helps and enjoy the jam!

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AnamuraSubmitted3 years ago (1 edit)

I understand, nice :) I have another question then!

This is just something personal, but I tend to group small games into a single game page so my itchio land page is not crowded with small games. For example, I already have made a horror game and my idea was to add a small section in that game page for the new game and add the download in that game page, not a total new one, since this game I plan for the jam (if the theme fits at least) might just have a duration of 5m of less (maybe first playthrough could be longer, maybe 15m).

It's okay that during the game jam, this small game has its own game page but then when the jam is over I'd like to do as I've explained, I suppose it would be possible, although I guess the stats about view/download would be lost, right? (I guess I could set it as private so at least I can see the stats by myself haha)

Last question is about the theme, I didn't understand well what it is, because I thought the "theme" is halloween or something in horror genre, but in the jam it is said that on 24th october the theme would be revealed so I am not sure what it means.

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Mochii🌺Jam Host3 years ago

Hiya! If you wanted to upload multiple games onto a single page, then you'd have to just add it on there by yourself manually, so yeah unfortunately the download analytics and views will be lost in doing so.

About the theme, there will be an added theme/limitation announced which you can try and incorporate into your game idea already, on top of making it Halloween themed. It's there just to help people if they are stuck with creating an initial game idea, and we tend to make the theme fit very easily with the Halloween style, for example last year we had the theme "Mask the Truth", which created lots of really awesome games about deception and things like that, which works quite well with a spooky setting. 

However if you don't want to use it then that's completely fine too! Jams themes are just there to try and provoke new or unique mechanics but as always you don't have to use it if you don't want to. 

Hope this helps! - Mochii

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AnamuraSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

Oh so using the theme is optional? That's great then :) Okay I think I got all my doubts clear now, thank you very much for the replies! Gonna join the jam now!

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Mochii🌺Jam Host3 years ago(+2)

Good luck!✨Just as an extra note, there is a theme category for the voting so if you think there's an easy way of implementing the theme, I personally would because it means people can vote high on it :D

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sweatcake3 years ago(+2)

This will be my first game jam also. The butterfly's are running rampped rite now.

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Mochii🌺Jam Host3 years ago(+1)

If you're looking for advice or help before, or during the jam, feel free to ask anytime on our discord server or on here! I'm always nervous for game jams too haha ｡ ｡ ゛(ﾉ><)ﾉ Wish you the best of luck and have fun! 

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