Post by Byron-Haze in Solo participation

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I am participating solo. I didn't realise there was even a thing about people taking part in teams. I am sure taking part as a team is great for sharing the workload and being able to bounce ideas, but when you have clear ideas about what you definitely want to, there would be the risk of having to compromise over them.

I have only had one creative collaboration work well, where it was not accepted that either the other person or myself was in charge. They came up with the overall idea, which would not have happened without them, but I did over 90% of the writing. Even then there was some disagreements on how the adventure was to end, which was resolved by the other person finding they no longer had the time to put into the project.

Simon Palmer3 years ago(+1)

I find this often with writing projects - I think most IF writers - at least of books, tend to write individually alongside artists etc. I haven't found many recent successful collaborations in the community!

I think the idea of grouping up comes from itch.io being predominantly for video games - people see this with an idea that it must be like the other jams!

Byron-Haze3 years ago

I have been wondering whether artwork should be consideration.

Simon Palmer3 years ago(+1)

Voters will be able to vote on three criteria:

Overall engagement
Clever use of the 'key' theme
Gamelike elements, items, multiple paths etc

So nothing specifically art based - though of course I imagine good art always sways voters!