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I'm ESL, so this might be a dumb question, but this line in the announcement confuses me:

  • When rating this criteria, please ensure there is no bias towards rhythm games incorporating non-original music.

Since making original music for a 3-day game jam is impossible for most people, I'm guessing that here you are telling voters NOT to dock points just because the soundtrack is not original. Is that what this means?

What confuses me is the expression "ensure there is no bias towards" since I'd expected "ensure there is no bias against". I hope I'm not coming off as pedantic, I honestly don't know if the problem is in the wording, my expectations, or my english xd

https://itch.io/jam/neurosama-birthday-game-jam/rate/2448537

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by no bias toward they likely mean dont give extra points for the dev including your favourite song or artist sorts of things also in this grammatical context toward would be correct wereas against would be incorrect

Thanks for the answer! I thought there might be a mistake, because that rule didn't make sense to me, but apparently last year a game did get unfair advantage for featuring unoriginal music, so I guess it makes sense.