I think that on the next Magical Girl Game Jam (if there's going to be one), we should clearly define the baseline rules and rubric that every submission has to meet. One rule could be that any game suspected to be submitted under deceptive or just bad intentions will be removed.
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I plan there to be a next one -- in about six months. And yes; I definitely will tighten and more clearly redefine the rule a bit. I wanted this jam to be lax and a li'l wild west... but it seems I got too lax. This is the first time I have ever hosted a game jam -- only expected it to be small in which case these types of submissions are fewer, and I could enforce the rule of "Be nice"
The rule of "any game suspected to be submitted under deceptive or just bad intentions" though... I don't think it's what I would call clearly defined -- that rule basically says "any game I don't like might get removed" -- which is kind of against some of my core principles. Probably I will reword it some way to make it clear I'm not going to remove games simply because for example I don't like their message or their taste but yeah, thanks for the suggestion XD
I'd say that your first attempt at a jam is going pretty well, so you you shouldn't worry. :D
By the phrase quoted, I meant games like ones that have clearly been submitted to many different (often unrelated) jams for the purpose simply driving traffic to their game, and they were made like a billion years prior to the jam, as an example. I should have elaborated, but I'm not sure this clarification is satisfactory to begin with. D: