Dear developers,

I am developing games as a hobby and I do not have a relevant amount of followers. That is totally fine most of the times, but sometimes I would like to get some feedback. In the past I waited for an appropriate game jam to trade feedback. That worked great, but is not always available. An alternative is this forum, but that does not work as well in my experience. (For instance: I wrote the first version of this post ~24 h ago, and no one even tried it out ...)

Then I had this idea: What if there was a ranking of games on itch.io that ranked not by "popularity" but by "is in need for feedback the most".  To test it out I created a prototype that ranks projects like this: Those developers that gave more feedback than they received are ranked to the top. With that ranking it should be possible to trade feedback in a large pool, but not only "one on one".

What do you think of that Idea?

If you need feedback yourself and are willing to give feedback to others in return it would be great if you would add your project to the ranking. (As an extra bonus: I will do extensive reviews on the first 5 games that are put on the list.)

You can take a look at the prototype here: crits

There is also an itch page: https://crashdumpsoftware.itch.io/crits

It would also be great if you could give feedback on the prototype itself: How is the usability? Did you find the button to rank your project up? Is the mechanic clear? What feature is missing? What do you think about the surveys? What about the ratings?