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It definitely seems kinda random... The comments were invaluable to me - so it absolutely was a worthwhile experience, but I played about 50 games and there were about 5-6 games that were hands down the best. No questions asked.  Then there was a huuuuuge gap in quality, idea, and execution and then followed all the other entries. For example Purple Desert, Lucent Depths and Neon Nightmare are all absolutley breathtaking showcases of what can be achieved in two weeks with game maker but oh well... maybe I should just randomly post my top 10 entries in some random forum. I mean these titles deserve it so much better!

I do think there is some evidence that a small handful of entries attempted to manipulate votes. Like there are a few highly ranked games that perhaps don't measure up with general level of polish of the other top ranked games that have a lot of low effort comments from freshly created accounts and very few developer comments. That is a little bit of a bummer - but, I think this shows that leaving any final decisions to the discretion of YoYo Games and Opera was the right call because this reserves them the opportunity to take issues like this into consideration while determining the final winners.