Post by Fire Totem Games in Minimum Number of Ratings

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The voting will never be fully fair because only a fraction of players will play your game. You can get lucky and have people play your game who like it and you get good ratings or you get players who don't like your game (or the game is too hard for them) and you get bad ratings.

Next question is, how fair are the ratings from others. Some could give low ratings to other games to boost their game. But I hope that the ratings will be looked through if there are some weird ratings or maybe cheaters, because this time you are able to win a price.

CodeMyst5 years ago

The problem with itch.io is that we have absolutely no control over rating so we can't do stuff like that. Also games are shown in random order every time you refresh the page.

We expect people to be fair when rating games, and in other jams we hosted we didn't really have problems with this (apart from games with very little ratings, but that should be solved now, kind of).

Daito5 years ago (1 edit)

At least they're shown in random order. That's a good thing.

I would encourage other participants to rate as much game as possible to prevent too much games from getting ignored.

PabloGamez5 years ago

Mabie you guys can do a overall section in the resutls like on the gmtk game jam but you have to score higher than x.