Hey everyone, now that the submissions are available for voting, I'm not sure what the correct way of going about it is. Should we leave a rating on each submission, and then the relative ratings will be scored up at the end? Or do we cast a single vote for our favourite pitch in some other way?

Hello Redlac,

The general idea is to leave a rating on each submission you go through. How well did the contestant do at explaining each point of the criteria?? However, the last point of the criteria, ‘Beyond the Call of Duty’, can serve as a way for you to rate the submission based on how much it resonates with you.

Feel free to review as many submissions as you like. We don’t know how interested contestants are in reviewing the submissions and if there are not enough votes to make the results fair, we will have to manually judge the game jam and disregard the itch voting results altogether. For example, if a project gets only a few votes and others get many votes, we will have to manually judge the jam.

We also welcome your feedback on how we are dealing with the judging and if you guys would prefer that we do things a different way. For example, if you think we should judge the competitions as a community or just as a select few judges, please let us know. We just want to make this as fair as possible.

Cheers

Okay, cool, thanks for letting me know. That clears everything up nicely.

Hello Everyone,

Over the past few days we have not seen much voting happening. There have been a total of 3 submitters to the game jam who have voted on other submissions and one of them has only voted for one game. There is also a game that has not received any votes at all. This probably means that everyone is too busy and that is perfectly understandable, but, because of this, the Everdevs Team is going to manually judge The Idea Jam.

We're hoping to post the results shortly.