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Hello,

The date for completion of judging was announced as August 4 when the jam went live, there are no changes to that date planned at this time.

As an additional note, I am not a judge myself, I am just coordinating with the judges to complete the review of entries. 

Hi,

Judges have been updated on the main jam entry. There are three judges from Block Born, one from Tezos, one from Rensa, and one independent game developer. 

Judges have about 9 days from today to do their review, and will decide together how to award the prizes, based on the judging criteria provided on the jam page.

Try this then go to BB 90's Jam Category: https://discord.gg/HRH4AFK8EU

Discord is here: http://discord.gg/WYUknjZtMH

Right now we have updates disabled. I'm able to discuss with the judge team but as it stands now games are meant to be judged as-is. 

That's fine as long as both games were provably (with GitHub repos) developed during the game jam build period.

From the challenge: Genres like light-gun, platformers, shmups, and rhythm are a few ideas to get you started!

Here's an article about popular arcade games from the 90s: https://retrododo.com/best-90s-arcade-games/

Absolutely, using licensed third party assets (free or paid) is fine as long as you comply with the licensing terms

No, we're not planning to announce an additional theme. The main elements are 90's arcade style aesthetics/music/gameplay with a competitive element such as high scores, speedrun times, etc.

Looking forward to seeing what you build!

Yes, high scores/leaderboard would be fine as a competitive element

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We will be launching within the next few weeks, and are looking for indie devs with small, existing games to host as the first trial batch on our platform. We'll provide an upfront payment, in addition to royalties each time the game is sold (you will need to confirm that you own the rights to the game). Games should be simple (think Flappy Bird, Pong, etc.) as we're using decentralized storage which puts some limitations on file size. 

We're happy to answer any questions you might have. We could also use some insight from independent developers like yourselves, and have created a paid survey to capture feedback from the first 30 respondents. Send an email to finalboss@rensa.games for details, or find the link on our site.