It could be rigged, and most likely is. The game sticks out like a sore thumb, and it isn't even close to the quality of Arcane Tactics. Also, participants votes do not always reflect the quality of a game, as everyone has different opinions and experiences. It gets even worse when there are no precautions against spamming 1 star votes on other games with different accounts.
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"Also, participants votes do not always reflect the quality of a game, as everyone has different opinions and experiences. It gets even worse when there are no precautions against spamming 1 star votes on other games with different accounts."
Exactly, but either we use community votes and accept above, or we need a jury, which can also have its flaws.
Or you know another solutions?
Let judges choose from the top 10 or 20 (depending on the size of the game jam) and decide the winners of prizes after the results are finalized to ensure games being left out due to unfair tactics. Its not perfect, but its better than what most game jams do, and definitely better than what BIGA did.
well as i understood from the discord, these ratings are not the "final results", and there will be an announcement of the winners later on. so surely this means that it's up to the judges who wins. i will be sad if my game doesn't make it after being ranked 2nd, but i agree with you that there are many better games. that doesn't mean you have to call my game bad though or say that i dont deserve my ratings
you've made it clear that you don't think i deserve to be high up; saying that other games were clearly high quality as opposed to mine. but yes it was mostly the other person commenting that said my game "sticks out like a sore thumb". maybe that's your account too though seeing as it was created today, and you never posted at the same time as them