2024-game-jam

[waxen trail]

Would be sick It was def a treat last year

[cunning inlet]

I hope it doesn't get dragged down by the theme category enough to not be in top 20, that's my current fear. I think it should get close to max score in every other category

[signal monolith]

Mythical final plug incoming

Brace yourselves

https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3211560

[quick badger]

last day until results! yipeee

[fringe star]

btw how many winners do we have? and is there like a "best gameplay, music, etc" category and an overall category?

[torpid bridge]

3 more ratings till 40! https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3212555

[quick badger]

there will be one global ranking and then rankings for each categories

but I think only top 1 overall will get a lavalamp

[torpid bridge]

That Pub game would probably win it I'm calling it

Good game btw

[quick badger]

yeah I'm betting on that one too

would love to see the pirate game win tho

deserved imo

[torpid bridge]

I do hope our game at least makes it high in some categories

[fringe star]

100% sea of memories is goated

[fringe star]

i think i have a chance in gameplay, but for other categories i dont know

[cloud mountain]

vedal's vacation was earlier than expected

[quick badger]

sound is gonna drag me down I think, and fun since the game is not completed

[fringe star]

i 100% will be the lowest for sounds/audio and this i know

[feral glade]

daily plug, https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3212563, slower, darker game, more of an experience than game

[quick badger]

so many games have no sound, no one is gonna be last in that category

it will be a 50 way tie at the bottom

which is why i think sound is not the most important category by far

[fringe star]

[nimble dew]

With this odd theme, theme is neither I think 😉 Some implemented the theme extra good, but the rest is like "well they did what they could with that odd theme".
I think it boils down to art, fun and creativity and innovation

[quick badger]

true

I saw a lot of game (mine too lol) that just tied it to the lore, and I might be biased but I rated those 3 star on theme cuz that's good enough imo x)

[pulsar stag]

im genuinly playing a five nights at wasp irl, hella thirsty and there is a stupid wasp that doesnt get out

i even said, with the door barely opened, "get out" and it started to move to my direction

here is a good game idea for next game jam

maybe i will leave room till next year

[quick badger]

five nights at vedal's tho my submission next year I claim it no one copy

[fringe star]

i think for fun my list is(not in any order):
Neuro wars (shameless plug )
sea of memories
evil in time
unhando
Abandoned Pub

[lament ermine]

Our game will do well in sound, art, theme (maybe?)

we probably won't do well in terms of fun

maybe we score high on creativity

[nimble dew]

Same. I think I also gave all at least a three for "coming up with a simple generic one sentence backstory that somehow includes the theme and loosely connects it to the game".

[fringe star]

Troubleshooting has extremely good ambience so sound design is peak, art is also amazing, maybe above pub on these two categories if i do say so myself.

[heady lodge]

https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3212835

[fringe star]

Tutel rancher 100% sweeps creativity and inovation

[quick badger]

damn tutel left to get milk

[hasty drift]

almost 4400 total ratings. can we get to 5000 before time runs out?

[fringe star]

theres still a day

[light remnant]

if you need a game to rate please rate The Timeless Artifact!
https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3212060

[past meadow]

35 games rated, 242 to go, surely we have enough time

[hasty drift]

[waxen trail]

I'm at 44 and it still feels like there's so many game I haven't played or rated yet

[waxen trail]

I feel like I liked pub more art-wise because it's just a lot more intensive with art compared to handful of extremely well drawn sprites in Troubleshooting

That being said I ranked both 5 stars on art anyway iirc

Soundtrack to both lives rent free in my head

OST release when?

[fringe star]

100 points on life memory for audio

[misty tree]

I have 0 clue what we will do well in this year

last year it was pretty clear we would only stand out in visuals, but we dont have that this year so

[lusty falcon]

In Godot an audio stream's volume rating ranges from 0Db (Max volume) to -80Db (silent). I'm creating a volume slider to adjust this. Problem is, Decibels are logarithmic, so in reality anything below about -30Db is barely audible, so only really 1/3 of the slider is useful, and this makes fine adjustment in a usable range very difficult.

Does anyone have the perfect Db to volume conversion algorithm that produces a volume slider that adjusts volume in a usable manner?

[signal monolith]

You can expose only the usable part to the user of you want and manually set it to -80 when they go super low for example

[naive walrus]

unity is 20 to -80 i think for our game i used this log10(Value) * 20 i didnt come up with it saw it in a tutorial

[lusty falcon]

Thanks i'll try it

[lusty falcon]

Yeah I did do this as an interim but it'd be nice to have the entire range because you can never predict what someone's audio setup is, maybe what's barely audible to me is still useful to them etc.

func _on_abience_sound_effects_slider_value_changed(value: float) -> void:
    if value < -40:
        $"../ComputerHum".stream_paused = true
    else:
        $"../ComputerHum".stream_paused = false
        $"../ComputerHum".volume_db = value

[signal monolith]

Or you can say fuck that and do it like cruelty squad

Just a long slider lol

[tame rapids]

i think i watched a youtube tutorial on this

wait a sec

[potent stirrup]

I just played Troubleshooting after this and holy I think this is the first time in a long while a game instilled fright into me.

[tame rapids]

you attach this script to the slider

it's mainly this line: value = db_to_linear(AudioServer.get_bus_volume_db(bus_index))

https://tenor.com/view/shrimp-as-that-clash-royale-hee-hee-hee-haw-gif-25054781

[naive walrus]

Plus make it like that (3:28)

[waxen trail]

Troubleshooting is extremely good

[signal monolith]

fine guys, I'll play troubleshooting

[potent stirrup]

the audio goes crazy, I should play it again with lights out for maximum neuro effect

[lusty falcon]

Good news, there's a built-in function for what I want https://docs.godotengine.org/en/4.3/classes/[e-mail]#class-globalscope-method-linear-to-db

Annoying though, it's not mentioned anywhere on the docs page

[signal monolith]

certified godot moment

[tame rapids]

won't this work?

[lusty falcon]

Yeah should be perfect, I just didn't know about it because it wasn't mentioned anywhere

[tame rapids]

i meant this

[lusty falcon]

yeah looks like this uses the function, nice

[fringe star]

i played it during a brownout(electricity got cut, 0 lights) with a flashlight as my room light

im glad to say, i didnt sleep that night properly and had to wait for sunrise

[signal monolith]

isn't that a blackout?

[fringe star]

localy we call it a brownout

i heavy suggest going full lights out with a bad flashlight when playing troubleshooting

[potent stirrup]

with headphones

[fringe star]

bonus points if you play in a room with a window to the left, a door to the right, a giant mirror behind you, and have a bedframe where theres a lot of space below the bed

[signal monolith]

but everything is dark when lights are out, not brown 😦

[signal monolith]

dumb word

i don't like it

it should be banned

[fringe star]

blackout is alot wider

[signal monolith]

why brown? What is brown about lack of electricity?

[fringe star]

english is dumb

[lusty falcon]

White out - snowed in
Black out - no power
Brown out - less power

What other outs can we define

[past meadow]

Wait, aquwa plays Neuro-game-jam games?

[signal monolith]

?

[past meadow]

Haven't started yet ig, but she has it in the title
https://www.twitch.tv/aquwa

[signal monolith]

I watched her reaction videos a long time ago

they were pretty cool

[past meadow]

I don't like reaction content, but Vedal gave her permission, so I am ok with watching her react to Neuro

[signal monolith]

it's her, right?

[misty tree]

yea its her

[past meadow]

I watched a few of her videos even before she discovered Neuro

[signal monolith]

me too, and I liked her

but I like reaction content

[misty tree]

shes friends with staz or something, so i think thats probably why shes drifting towards the neuroverse

i kinda thought shed just stay a reacter but i did notice recently there was a cerber + ellie + mini + aquwa collab

which is just like pinnacle of neuroverse squad

[winged jay]

Aquwa new member of Neuroverse in 5??

[misty tree]

do i get a sprite prepared for her in anticipation 👀

[winged jay]

maybe one day

[misty tree]

never mind, new member down, o7

shes starting to play the game jam games now for anyone interested

shes starting with pub tho so might be a while till she gets to any others haaha

[signal monolith]

if somone is watching, tell me if she plays my game plz

[misty tree]

remind me which game it is ill ping you if it happen

[winter aurora]

I think she said she will play the top 10 games in popularity ?

[winged jay]

time to play neurosoda's game

[misty tree]

aaaa 10?

i think we're like 12 :c

[tame rapids]

please do, it will forever change your life

[winter aurora]

at least that what I think I heard
our is top 14

[viral lynx]

the plan is to play the top 10 by popularity

[potent stirrup]

I feel like going through the 'most rated' list is actually closer to how popular a game is then actual popularity. I cant seem to understand the popularity rankings.

[viral lynx]

actually I just checked: she is going by most rated instead of popular

[potent stirrup]

Oh nice she'll play the dating sim then

[earnest wind]

Since its the last day I'll plug mine (for the first and last time) for those who havent rated it
https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3213062

[signal monolith]

I have played, it was cool, does it really run on real gb?

[winged jay]

my life has been forever changed, I would like to thank NeuroSoda for this opportunity, 10/10 peak

[earnest wind]

Yeah
#neurotic-neurons message

[signal monolith]

pixelart is so cute, it melts my heart and soul

[tepid cove]

I liked this one a lot. Very cute.

[native chasm]

fact

there is no egg in eggplant and you cook bacon but bake cookies

[naive walrus]

Distinction of cooking and baking makes sense for me. In Russian we have equivalents for both but nobody would say anything if you say you cooking something instead of baking I think.

[native chasm]

no I mean like, you cook bacon but not cookies

and you bake cookies but not bacon

[misty tree]

ok lets rename it to bakies and cookon

would you like a bakie?

[native chasm]

In Russian btw "to bake" and "cookie" have same root (pjech)

[naive walrus]

Yea

[native chasm]

yea

btw we just reached 150k subs on stream (also lvl 31 of hypetrain lol)

[pulsar stag]

lvl 35 rn

but its 10 secs left

o7

[signal monolith]

love the random hype train just to flex

[ember apex]

did valorent Really donate 95k subs? thats insane!

[native chasm]

ah dang it

I literally just went away for a few minutes and we lost

Sadge

[native chasm]

they were doing a new year sale, like if u buy 5+ subs then 30% of them is paid by Valorant

also I think it's like 5 times less

[ember apex]

dope!!

[past meadow]

Aquawa plays Tutle Rancher now

[potent stirrup]

And Vedal Secret next

[quick badger]

And sea of memories last

[atomic stream]

🔥

[waxen wasp]

[civic fractal]

[fringe star]

[placid salmon]

[native chasm]

[atomic stream]

so many good games... so little time to rate...

[sour horizon]

Started working on the Neuro support, I think it's going well

by the way, anyone still in need of ratings here? I think I tried most people's game here, but just in case

or some story-based games? I played the time traveling Evil one yesterday, was really nice

[waxen wasp]

im pretty sure you've played ours already

[civic fractal]

Yeah you commented on it

[light remnant]

still haven't played yours but if you want:
https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3212060

[sour horizon]

Checking it out!

(also a self plug: https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3213260)

[light remnant]

playing it right now!

[pale iron]

Is today the last day of rating games?

[atomic stream]

ooo this looks really cool!

i hope i can play this one before the end of rating

[atomic stream]

yeah

[hasty drift]

[atomic stream]

you can see the time left in the jam page

[hasty drift]

surely alex will not extend rating period last minute

[atomic stream]

i pray

[proud smelt]

Question, how does the rating system work?
I’m asking cause some games have a high amount of ratings, while others have fewer.
Would a game with a single rating of 5 be ranked higher than a game with 100 ratings averaging 4.5?
I’m just curious! 😛

[waxen wasp]

your score is lowered if the number of ratings is lower than the median amount.

idk by how much tho

[tame rapids]

there is a formula for that

but you can always check on website

https://itchanalytics.vercel.app/

this one

[proud smelt]

Ohh it says here that my game ranks 44?
Thats a good number 😄

[tame rapids]

in number of ratings, yes

or popularity

[proud smelt]

Daaa i don't understand
it says we are cool though 😛

[tame rapids]

actual scores will be after end of rating period

[proud smelt]

At least i know how is rated
Thanks for the help! 😄

Last day to vote!

https://tenor.com/view/wow-meme-gif-25742319

[sour horizon]

*wants to quickly try a game*
*virtualbox decides to broke completely*

[old adder]

(sandboxie)

[tame rapids]

• unvirtuals your box *

what, you don't trust fellow game jammers?

[sour horizon]

yeah, I happen to be on Linux at the moment

[tame rapids]

oh

yeah, that could complicate things when all games are for windows

[old adder]

oh i see

proton/wine maybe

[tacit wasp]

Are Wine and Proton even compatible with Unity, Gobot and Unreal?

[old adder]

sure

proton even has support for some anticheats like EAC

[sour horizon]

but virtualbox version X doesnt work with linux kernel version Y so I had to install virtualbox version Z oh but oracle's site just happened to be updated so I ran into some 502 errors, then VB threw some random UI error because it no longer understands its own config files from a previous version, so had to clean it up, then fix the window image from the previous version in system restore mode because why would it work ofc

[old adder]

admittedly i did not try playing any of the windows games on linux

[sour horizon]

but it seems to boot now

[civic fractal]

I'm already used to virt-manager so I can't help you there.

[sour horizon]

okay, now playing eri's game which looks really cool so far

[atomic stream]

i use wine and proton and its working fine for every game i played

[sour horizon]

yeah usually works for me too, but this one uses multiple windows and wine freaked out

[atomic stream]

ohhh damn

wayland?

[tacit wasp]

Oh it's the Timeless Artifact?

[sour horizon]

nah x11
though it seems to be a Godot game so probably I could replace the executable, oh well

yup

[atomic stream]

ah

[civic fractal]

Strange, I remember using wine for windowkill v1.0 under wayland and it worked alright.

[atomic stream]

really?

i thought window positioning was still broken on wayland

[civic fractal]

I mean it still runs under xwayland

only reason it works

[atomic stream]

but rootless?

i can see it working on rootful xwayland but last time i tried it wouldnt work on rootless

[civic fractal]

All of the windows belonged to the compositor, not a rootful xwayland window.

[atomic stream]

damn i guess that was fixed since last time i checked

[civic fractal]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZpZwunMzuE
Also did this under wine. (granted the compositor was being executed but it worked)

[atomic stream]

lmao

[old adder]

oh dang you played windowkill? saw it on a stream when it released, very cool idea 👀

didnt expect it to work since oneshot doesnt work either

[civic fractal]

Yeah, surprised the itch version worked at all

[atomic stream]

was thinking the same

[civic fractal]

At least for windowkill in particular, v3.0 has native linux support IIRC. Not sure how that works tho

[atomic stream]

yeah i saw that and was super surprised. I guess godot is just that good!

finally rated all the games from the people who commented on mine

[signal monolith]

godot is open source, so some random person who likes linux added it/fixed it

I like this about godot, there's always a simple solution to everything because someone already thought about it and added it, while in unity you have to fight the enigne to have something as simple as sprite billboarding

[atomic stream]

but window positioning in multi-window applications on wayland is a problem that was being discussed for a long time and i dont think a proper protocol has been designed yet, so I'm surprised that works at all

[signal monolith]

but it has it's downsides, godot is often buggy and some elements kinda clash with each other, or more often, are badly documented

[atomic stream]

yup

but its worth the downsides

[signal monolith]

godot is build different lol

[signal monolith]

In my opinion it is, but sometimes people choose the consistency of unity and I'm not surprised

[atomic stream]

yeah

[native chasm]

Many games on this gamejam that were made with Godot required Vulkan which I don't have

At least 3 or 4 from ones I played
Which isn't a lot but it's like 10%

And not very comfortable to play these

[atomic stream]

no vulkan support on your gpu?

[signal monolith]

the default renderer forward+ requires vulkan

you can choose compatibility when exporting and it supports opengl

[native chasm]

Nop

[atomic stream]

oof

[signal monolith]

for example my game has "no vulkan" version

[native chasm]

Yea I remember that

But many don't do that

[signal monolith]

because I know it's a problem

but many new godot devs don't

[native chasm]

I mean I still can run it but it's just more complicated

[signal monolith]

imo it should be said somewhere in BOLD LETTERS in godot

[atomic stream]

it is

maybe not in bold letters

but when you create a project it says that

[signal monolith]

it's like this

[native chasm]

Same problem that I had with Buckshot Roulette so I already knew what to do when I realised that it was the issue

[signal monolith]

IMO it should be "REQUIRES GPU TO SUPPORT VULKAN, ONLY NEWER GPU'S SUPPORT VULKAN"

more people would notice

[atomic stream]

huh i think they changed that since i last saw it i remembered it said that its not supported by all devices

[atomic stream]

to be fair, only really old gpus dont support it

[signal monolith]

I know, but tons of people still use them

[atomic stream]

my 10+ year old laptop's integrated gpu supports vulkan

so its only very few people that will need that

i just always include a web build so that everyone that can access the game page will probably be able to play the game

[signal monolith]

web build also requires vulkan according to my testing, if you don't export it in compatibility mode

pretty weird

[sour horizon]

Isn't there some software fallback for that case? Like there's Mesa for Linux, probably there's something for Windows too

[atomic stream]

thats very weird

[native chasm]

How one of you say "tons of people" and other "only very a few people"

[atomic stream]

maybe godot uses webgpu instead of webgl

but i dont use godot

im pretty sure my web build works without vulkan

not like i have a machine to test that on though..

[signal monolith]

probably another godot weirdness

[native chasm]

R u talking about one for gamejam or smth else?

[atomic stream]

yeah

https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3212673

shameless self plug

[native chasm]

I'll check it later ig

[sour horizon]

actually playing it right now

[native chasm]

I think it should work with web build tbh even without vulkan

[atomic stream]

thanks it would be nice to know if it works

[signal monolith]

bruh, no thumbnail debuff

[atomic stream]

yeah

im way too tired to draw a thumbnail

i will after the jam is over lol

[native chasm]

Lemme selfplug then too
https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3213344

[atomic stream]

thank you!! :3

[native chasm]

Oh dang didn't even notice that at first

[atomic stream]

ill play it

[native chasm]

I also forgot to make thumbnail and just added a screenshot at 2nd day xd

[atomic stream]

probably should have done that too

[signal monolith]

I've just added an ingame sprite

as thumbnail

[native chasm]

Yea I just figured out that no thumbnail will probably be bad for popularity so I should add at least something xd

[signal monolith]

almost every popular game has pretty thumbnail

[atomic stream]

when i submitted the game i was just so done i didnt even wanna think about the itch page lol

i thought i can update that at any time anyway so surely i could update it the next day... but im still way too tired to work on that

[native chasm]

I'm pretty sure "almost" is unnecessary in this case

[signal monolith]

like two or three just use ingame screenshots

[native chasm]

Also wow u rated a lot of popular ones

[signal monolith]

i've just rated a lot

[native chasm]

Technically, still a thumbnail

[native chasm]

Also thx, would appreciate that

[signal monolith]

techincally yes, but I meant a unique, special made thumbnail

[native chasm]

Just gonna warn, if u feel that final boss is too hard, there are options to slow down the game or become invincible that can help u

I really hope we get more time to rate games

[atomic stream]

same

[native chasm]

Oh wow I dropped a lot since morning, it was like 53th I think... I really thought I'd have a chance for top 50 here, xd

[signal monolith]

I don't, I played a ton of games last three days

[native chasm]

I actually didn't play much last 2 days cuz was more busy with other stuff

[signal monolith]

I had literally nothing better to do lol

[native chasm]

I think I played like only 3 Saturday and 0 Sunday

[signal monolith]

💀💀💀

[native chasm]

I really need that extra week

[waxen trail]

I'd love some extra time too

At 44 rated games

Also website says our game is 20th in popularity but in reality it's shown 37th on the page Vedal's never going to play it

[molten shadow]

whats ur game

[native chasm]

Double plug xd
https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3213344

[native chasm]

Your game is one of the most addictive out there

[waxen trail]

Yippie thank you

Been working on Neurosama SDK integration today in the hopes it will be used on stream someday

It works overall, just need to add context for Neuro to understand what's going on

[tame rapids]

popularity/number of rates doesn't matter ultimately, only ranks at the end

[native chasm]

The games I will very likely play even after gamejam:

• Evil in Time (gotta get all the endings)
• Sea of Memories (gotta get that 200 atk)
• Unhando (gotta break that integer overflowing)
  Probably some others too, like Neuro wars, but most likely only thier updated versions

[waxen trail]

Oooo I'll try to play Evil in Time tomorrow before the timer ends

Looks sick

[native chasm]

One of the best games here

[waxen trail]

You're totally right

[tame rapids]

Evil in Time was quite good

[waxen trail]

I have some hopes for fun & creativity ranks, outside of that idk

[native chasm]

Out of all 45 games I've played none got more total stars than Evil in Time from me
At least for now

[signal monolith]

yeah, evil in time is the only game that got a perfect score from me

[placid salmon]

I watched Aquwa play my game, not only did she 100% it on stream but she didn't censor anything, this is the difference between a true streamer and femboy tutel, she also played as I intended, trying different combinations and her gameplay was pretty fun, I already knew her reacting content before this so I'm pretty happy she liked it.

[native chasm]

Not a perfect from me but quite close

[waxen trail]

I'm glad you still got a well deserved full playthrough of your game haha

[signal monolith]

shame she didn't play mine, but I didn't want to coax her into it, that would be dishonest

[waxen trail]

Though can't blame Vedal for skipping it at the same time

[native chasm]

The only game with same total score as Evil in Time for me was Evil's Malice, not 25/25 too but really good one

[placid salmon]

It was for the best, I'm sure he has like 10 hours off stream with my game

[waxen trail]

I'm totally playing Evil in time tomorrow this is it 😤

[native chasm]

Femboy tutel didn't even listen to Never Gonna Give You Up when TruckFM played it on this stream

Does he always skip all the fun?

[placid salmon]

Yep, and that's why we love him

[native chasm]

True lol

[placid salmon]

Bro does everything he can to not say it back

[signal monolith]

to alex oc

[native chasm]

too sober for this

[atomic stream]

next time i need to sleep properly during the jam to have energy to play the games after

[tacit wasp]

I am a master of the art

[tepid cove]

try drawing some circles

[native chasm]

I wish I could play that game properly

[tacit wasp]

I can't, my grand-daughter just stabbed me

[tacit wasp]

Even on my PC, my screen isn't large enough to have the whole game shown
What screen was this game even made for?

[native chasm]

It's in the comments, I don't remember exactly

[signal monolith]

*fart

[tacit wasp]

Okay I have no idea how not to get stabbed by Evil

[native chasm]

Why did this remind me of VSauce telling that Earth without "_h" is just a fart

[signal monolith]

smart

[old adder]

any last day raters? https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3211255

[marsh swan]

https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3213022 Last day plug :D

[waxen wasp]

https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3213324 last day

i have the update ready for when the voting ends

[light remnant]

https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3212060 sure why not?

[waxen wasp]

i will most likely be playing them after the voting ends too

still need to finish last year tho

[fringe star]

15 hrs left, goodluck everybody

[charred hamlet]

Shameless last day plug
https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3213034

[fringe star]

Final day, The most shameless plug

https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3212401

[sage canyon]

Shameless plug last day
https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3213125

[south hazel]

lmao kek

[south hazel]

can u add graphics settings on the post-jam update 😭 my laptop cant handle UE stuff

[sage canyon]

oh dang yea i can look into it

[tacit wasp]

Can't be shameless if everyone does it as well
https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3211795

[lament ermine]

https://voidbois.itch.io/troubleshooting Soon, even this game jam will be a remnant of the past

[misty tree]

am kinda nervous to see the ratings once it concludes, hoping it goes well

[placid salmon]

It's good to be nervous, it means that you care, accept the emotion and be happy about it, or at least that's what I usually do

[hasty drift]

tutel rancher more popular than abandoned pub. game of the year easily

[misty tree]

ill be a little disappointed if i do too poorly for vedal to play the game again xD

[hasty drift]

tutel cant play 278 games, it sadly be like that

[misty tree]

yea is just sad cuz i screwed myself on it last year

i totally should have been at a level to be played last year if i just like, added nonzero sound loool

[hasty drift]

i was on vacation last year when he eventually played last years games and heard he played mine but i never saw it. heard from friend that he was mostly tired and didnt rly react much during that strim

[placid salmon]

Yeah, but that's a good learning experience, and you can always try again next time

[placid salmon]

Last year he played my game but the main mechanic was broken and the ending scene didn't trigger, but it was okay

[hasty drift]

and this year you got your revenge LMAO

[civic fractal]

I'm excited that I got as many plays as I did this year. Don't know if we have a shot of winning but it was fun to do this again at least!

The song alone was worth every bit of stress of this year

[fringe star]

me too, really happy with the amount of people playing, commenting and replying about my game, theres no shot i can win tho

[hasty drift]

maybe the real remnants of the past are the friends we make along the way

[fringe star]

definitely a great learning experience

[light remnant]

I learned a lot too in this jam

by far the best game I made in a game jam

I wished I could've shared it more at the start of the rating period but I'm still proud of how many plays I got

[fringe star]

how long do you think it would be before the scores gets revealed?

[misty tree]

wouldnt it just be once the rating ends?

[idle ivy]

Surely spending a day making background lava lamp shader for post-jam update is worth it

[fringe star]

WORTH IT

[placid salmon]

This is the best I can do, now I'll rest x.x

[atomic stream]

thats really impressive, ive been too tired to play the games so ive only played a few, im rushing now to rate more lol

[placid salmon]

Thank you! All download only and low rated, if I had to recommend just one, It would be this hidden gem:
https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3212278

[atomic stream]

ill definitely try it later, right now im working through the games from people who left a comment on mine though haha

i finally rated them all earlier today then instantly got 3 more comments

[civic fractal]

I really should have rated more games this year, just didn't have much energy to rate them.

[atomic stream]

same

[lament ermine]

I rated what I could, have college and exam stuff to deal with

[atomic stream]

ill be happy if i can play the games from people that commented on mine and from the people i talked to here

and maybe the popular ones if i have time

[south hazel]

Neuro Wars got my recording up to an hour

i still havent finished the game yet

[waxen wasp]

Same

Stressful part of my life, energy levels dripped dramaticaly

[fringe star]

Im sorry

[misty tree]

yall good entries gotta make shorter games :c save some time for the rest of us geez

otherwise vedal goes to play games for one day, plays a game for 5 hours, and gets to nothing else lmao

[waxen wasp]

Our playtime is 6min or less

Depending on if you listen to the full song

[civic fractal]

If you don't you get executed mhm

but in all seriousness, we don't have much playtime

[waxen wasp]

https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3213324

Another plug for the road

[fringe star]

sorry chief, the only way i can make a fun tactics game is to have multiple different levels with different playstyles that give a lot of player freedom

i'll try to make a shorter one next time

[proud smelt]

That is insane! 😮

https://tenor.com/view/renge-non-biyori-salute-gif-4749194

Small question, is there going to be a list or a forum for people to submit their game as "Neuro ready"
I mean, either the team is working on a neuro build or has one ready.
Maybe that would help Vedal see what games are "Neuro ready" 😛

[fringe star]

quick question whats the "neuro playing games called" program called

i know its called neuro sdk, im wondering if it has another name, cuz i cant seem to find sdk in the gallery, so that i can try to make her play

[mental trout]

heres the link https://github.com/VedalAI/neuro-game-sdk

[fringe star]

[south hazel]

played "Evil in Time" only got 1 endinfg

is this part a glitch?

[proud smelt]

Haha, yeah
We are working on a post game jam build
And hopefully a Neuro-able build 😛

[proud smelt]

A happy accident? 😛
We might double down on the glitch 😛

[tacit wasp]

Honestly thought it was on purpose when playing
||Like she was filtering the screen itself||

[quick badger]

stopped here, will see if I can manage 25 today but I got my doubts x)

[south hazel]

pls no i cant see anything lmao

[tacit wasp]

I don't know if I'll be able to reach 50, sadge

[south hazel]

rate the ones that seem low quality enough, usually those take like 3-20mins

like this one cus this is just a memory game

[proud smelt]

I remember someone said they manage to get their llm to test their game with the neuro api
Wanted to ask, if someone can do that, would it be too much trouble if our team asks for help testing the neuro build? =3

[winged hull]

there is a link to 'jippity' in the SDK that uses OpenAI for that. can maybe try contacting the devs of that?

could also try the graphical tool and just control it all manually ('Tony'), though that depends on your game?

[native chasm]

why don't people mark they games as compatable for windows

[native chasm]

yea it works

[atomic stream]

[waxen trail]

Evil in Time is the jam winner

No doubt lmao

[native chasm]

hopefully

[south hazel]

hopefully, btw did u get any endings other than that "losing" one?

[waxen trail]

I got 3/5

I have an idea for some of the other ones too

[native chasm]

just played Vedal's Secret, this was so fun lmao

[south hazel]

what did u do for the 2?

[native chasm]

Vadul has to play it on stream

[south hazel]

im stuck

[native chasm]

I got 2/5

[waxen trail]

For Filter-sama, you need to ||spam spam spam spam spam spam!||

[tacit wasp]

I need to replay Evil In Time to try to get some endings

[waxen trail]

Does that help enough? if not then say so and I'll give you another hint

[native chasm]

I hope we get more time to rate cuz I've got like 10 more games I'd like to play but no time to do it today

[tacit wasp]

Same

[native chasm]

here are ones for me

• a few others I saw but haven't added yet

[proud smelt]

You all are really organized! 😮

[native chasm]

I just made a sheet for myself cuz it's easier to understand what I should play

[proud smelt]

https://tenor.com/view/neuro-sama-ai-ai-vtuber-vtuber-anime-gif-17187356427997089875

[south hazel]

i already did that but it got me 1/5

[torpid bridge]

Memory Lanes not seen on there hold on

https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3212555

[tacit wasp]

:)

[native chasm]

also it's kinda easier to keep ratings less subjective (imo) cuz I compare ratings to other I gave

[torpid bridge]

Oh nice

[waxen trail]

Then in the first event ||If you impersonate Neuro and say you love anny you can get her instead of Layna for the second event. There will be a unique option there||

[native chasm]

which one did u get?

[south hazel]

the lose ending

[waxen trail]

Deletion from sus one I imagine

[native chasm]

oh

[south hazel]

i may need to replay the game again

[native chasm]

yea just don't get too sus xd

[native chasm]

i didn't know that

[waxen trail]

Which second ending did you get?

Spoiler it

pls

[tacit wasp]

First time I played Evil In Time, I went to the family stream and made Evil show up
Turns out showing someone that doesn't exist yet to Vedal is pretty sus

[native chasm]

||Anny ending, the one where they escaped from Vadul and went to live with Anny||

[waxen trail]

Yeah I love that one

[south hazel]

what the fuck

im gonna get nightmares arent i

[waxen trail]

I also got a victory ending when you drop the percentage below a certain threshhold

There's also probably a ||neuro victory / "major loss" ending|| and a ||victory but with anny? maybe? or something else|| ending

[native chasm]

I'm so back

[torpid bridge]

Nice

[waxen trail]

Final score today?

[lament ermine]

We climbed the ranks to be 12th!

Yesterday we were 18th

[turbid saddle]

I got 39 reviews in my game, someone wants to bump it up to 40 👀
https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3211398

[atomic stream]

6 hours left

[sturdy arch]

What was the Vedal's game jam game again?

[fringe star]

Still going strong on 6th

[fringe star]

remnants of vedal's coding ability

planned to make a unit that can teleport to assist camila when she's infiltrating back lines, the concept for the design was a frog ninja

does this look decent enough?

[austere island]

https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3208404
last minute ratings appreciated

[winged hull]

final plug time
mine is a pretty short one to try (around 10 minutes) https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3212755

[sour horizon]

Is it plug time? https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3213260
This one is around 15-20 minutes I think

[past meadow]

Lmao, Aquwa beat sea of memories with the same crew and almost the same stats as me

[torpid bridge]

Let me know if she plays our game

[past meadow]

She played yesterday, I was just rewatching the VOD

[torpid bridge]

Ah ok

[fringe star]

sea of memories is the last game she played if i remember correctly

[past meadow]

She played pub, rancher, Vedal's secret, Fragmented, Sea of Memories

[fringe star]

yep

[atomic stream]

man such a shame i cant play all of them

[atomic stream]

your game is very sweet btw :3

[sour horizon]

thank you! I saw your comment and agree with it, tried to balance between being easy, but still have some challenge (I saw some people getting stuck), and of course fitting into the time

[atomic stream]

ah yeah thats very fair

balancing is always very hard

[sour horizon]

also had to cut many dialogs and the whole item inspect feature (which would be useful with the photos), I'm adding them in the post jam version

[waxen trail]

No way, watching the vod now

[past meadow]

Took her a while to figure out supply and fog mechanics tho

[waxen trail]

lmao

[past meadow]

Me too, my second run was Evil + 2xCerber, and I had 87 attack and 6 health

Although, strongset crew is probably Neuro+Anny+Layna

[tardy geyser]

there'll be a forum post some means to do this soon

[winter aurora]

game jam rater don't forget to focus on low rated game !
one rating on a 5 rated game mean an increase of 5% in the final score with the current median ! (sqrt(6/14)-sqrt(5/14))

also most of the game under median are downloable game...

[fleet goblet]

Would it be advantageous for me to extend the rating period?

[winter aurora]

no idea tbh

[waxen trail]

I feel like there's 11 more games I wanted to rate

Though... a week is pretty fair

[quick badger]

a lot of the game bellow 5 rates can't be executed at all because of missing files too

[past meadow]

Median is 8 tho

Ye

Oh, it grew then

Ye, I think it's good enough

[winter aurora]

last time I checked it was 14 I think ? (maybe 15 now )

[tardy geyser]

just checked, median is 14

[fringe star]

todays good i think

[cunning inlet]

it feels so nice to not have to worry about begging for rates compared to last time. My game has almost reached the 2nd row in terms of popularity too which is wild

[waxen trail]

Well deserved, I think Evil's Malice and Evil in Time were maybe my favorites this jam

[signal monolith]

Imo rating period is good now

Will the scores be visible right after voting period ends or there will be some delay?

[fringe star]

wdym almost the second row?

wait nvm, i thought evil in time was yours, got mixed up with evil's malice my bad

still awesome job

[cunning inlet]

I can kinda see how they could get mixed up, somewhat similar title names and thumbnails xd

I haven't actually seen Evil In Time, but I guess I'll get to watch Vedal play through it

[fringe star]

4 hours left

[signal monolith]

It seems like i've reached the second row if im not mistaken?

Can somebody verify?

[fringe star]

your on the third row, my tiles is set to 6

right beside evil's malice

[signal monolith]

Thx, mine were 7 tiles

[fringe star]

o, jace yours on the second row

[tacit wasp]

I'm a bit lower at row 8 I think?
Well at least I'll have some time to understand the Neuro SDK before Vedal plays them

[signal monolith]

No matter if its second or third im still really happy

My little game climbed a lot

[fringe star]

also happy since this is my first time getting into a game jam, and seeing a lot of people play our games does put a stupid grin on my face

[signal monolith]

Same

My first game jam

[tacit wasp]

Same, I'm very happy with all that happened

[signal monolith]

Even if my browser version is a bit scuffed, it still helped a lot

[fringe star]

Yours can be downloaded and kept, for me i need to have internet to enter the website to play my game, both of us have our own strengths and weaknesses

honestly, while i do agree, i also heavily prioritize dev's personal feelings (as long as its stuff not related to attacking other people) and would want them to not push themselves too hard and enjoy game dev

[tame rapids]

https://tenor.com/view/saul-goodman-saul-goodman-better-call-saul-jimmy-gif-23761375

alex extending rating period

[fringe star]

wait really?

[tame rapids]

no

but would be funny

[signal monolith]

I would rather see the final ratings faster, but I don't mind if some people need the extended time

[earnest wind]

There's 0 reason to extend voting

[past meadow]

Pushed our teams coolness to 40 today

[waxen trail]

Doing my last second ratings

[signal monolith]

for rating

[atomic stream]

same except its like 90% of my ratings

[earnest wind]

I just made sure I rate a bit more than the amount of rating my game had, just to make sure I wasnt abusing the coolness system

[fringe star]

wait what?

does it negatively impact my game if i rate less than my game's rate?

[winter aurora]

I don't think?

[earnest wind]

No it doesnt, but some people have been abusing the system by rating as much as they can without actualy playing the games and/or putting a genuine rating

Not saying it might be the case in this gamejam but its a thing that happens

[hasty drift]

Rating period extension might be inefficient as the velocity of total ratings gained has decreased

I don't need that system to know that everyone here is cool

[torpid bridge]

Made it over 40 ratings!!!

[signal monolith]

But you'll get score decrease if you don't have enough ratings, so we should rate games that have few ratings

[hasty drift]

There should always be encouragement in a game jam to participate in rating games and to look at some fewer rated games

[torpid bridge]

Yep!

[signal monolith]

so we should rate ones that have less than 14 for now

[hasty drift]

There are a few. But cannot force people to play games that do not speak to them in any way

[signal monolith]

maybe rate ones that are right on the boundary

[torpid bridge]

This one seems to be underated :( https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3210081

[signal monolith]

like 10 ratings or smth

to save them from the score decrease

[hasty drift]

i played a few games that seemed underrated but are very fun or well made

[signal monolith]

one of the first i've played

[winter aurora]

yep and you can see game that need rating here https://itch.io/jam/neuro/unrated

[winter aurora]

Will play it after the one I planned !

[tame rapids]

the solution is so easy, everyone should just play every game

[winter aurora]

this low rated game look cool and has a cool concept but I'm kinda stuck. probably by my skill issue https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3213036

[cunning inlet]

I have finished v1.1 of my submission, little less than 3 hours left

[native chasm]

not the best crew but it works ig

[waxen trail]

Watching her play initially is psychic torture but once she understands the mechanics it's a lot of fun it's good reference to see how people understand the game without a tutorial

[past meadow]

Yeah, her gamesense is also not the best, but it really is what an average gamer is like

[waxen trail]

Yeah, I'm more used to games like this so it lets me see outside my bias

[past meadow]

I don't think it's possible in our case

[waxen trail]

It's a good problem to have lmao

[cunning inlet]

oo, aquwa is playing game jam games as well? poggies

[waxen trail]

Well not really a problem, I don't think anybody expects you to rate a billion games D:

Rating an amount you think is decent is enough

And beyond that it's just bonus

[native chasm]

there are a lot of these btw

everything up to Company Property rn

[past meadow]

Btw, your game was the last game I rated today, you really did overscope for a solo project
But the visuals were really good, it really felt like a game with proper art direction

[native chasm]

so about 130 games or so

[past meadow]

btw, was it the game that can run on an actual GB?

[earnest wind]

Yeah, it was my first gamejam ever so lesson learned

Still working on it after the gamejam tho

[past meadow]

We did the same last year, we had a team of 13 people, and we decided to make an Unreal Engine FPS game

[atomic stream]

thats a big team!

[earnest wind]

Also yeah it can be run on actual hardware , someone even put it on their TI calculator

[atomic stream]

thats impressive as hell

[tame rapids]

https://tenor.com/view/hmm-spiderman-sus-gif-25682644

[atomic stream]

trying rolling girl right now, saw this in the description... I'm both a touhou and a gungeon player so i feel legally obligated to do hard now

[tacit wasp]

[native chasm]

holy moly, how

[sour horizon]

The more I play Sea of Memories the more I like it
sadly, my army of Cerbers was defeated by the time god

[tacit wasp]

Can't believe someone made an Undertale battle against Gaster Neuro in C in one day

[native chasm]

take eliv and 2 cumilq

this is the best ATK crew in game rn

[tacit wasp]

https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3213290
If anyone is interested
Very low quality (still impressive for a C program written in a day) but the bullet hell is a bit nice (ft. Gaster Blasters ofc)

[waxen trail]

Cerber is pretty great too! but you can win even with Vedal (it is a bit tough though lol)

[south hazel]

i cant play all games before game jam ends so hopefully this plug is accepted https://www.youtube.com/@neurog4mes

[waxen trail]

That's impressive as hell, also your pixel art is ABSOLUTE PEAK

[tacit wasp]

Will you still try to upload videos of the games after it's done?

[earnest wind]

Thanks! its so much harder to get something good with the gameboy limitations 😅 So I'm glad people like them

[south hazel]

yes as well as post-jam updates

[native chasm]

now I wanna get tripple vedal and win lmao

[waxen trail]

It turned out amazing still!!! Do you have any tips for getting gud at pixel art?

[native chasm]

tutel% speedrun

[south hazel]

i fucking kneel

making a gameboy in 2024 is so fucking based

runs well on my low-end laptop too

[waxen trail]

My friend already did that

He a legend for it

[past meadow]

[earnest wind]

I hope so considering you can play the tihng on a calculator of all things

[native chasm]

[waxen trail]

You can only get more Vedals as a captain through a special event (coldfish -> campfire)

[native chasm]

that might be even more impressive than my 200 atk run

[waxen trail]

So it's borderline impossible

[native chasm]

are all types of tiles equally likely to appear?

btw remember how I calculated the max possible damage to be 433 atk? Turns out it's wrong and theoretically u could go way higher

[royal jewel]

Makes sense with how little power a GameBoy has, so games that run on one barely have anything to process on any modern machine

[signal monolith]

😦

[waxen trail]

Yeah! Though technically the boss is always placed so enemy tiles are the tiniest bit more likely

[signal monolith]

not a good combo

it's probably fine, right?

not a chinese spyware?

[native chasm]

makes sense! What about events and crewmates, are they equally likely to appear on their tiles too? Like chance of getting vedal is same as chance of getting layna e.g.

[waxen trail]

Yeah, though I removed duplicates of the captain

[signal monolith]

it's not a chinese spyware, right?

[waxen trail]

So no 3 eliv

[old adder]

wow i got three comments last night

[tacit wasp]

I hope not because I'm done for otherwise

[signal monolith]

virus total looks pretty good, but I'm still a bit worried

[native chasm]

yea I remember that

[tacit wasp]

But the source code is provided so feel free to look

So far, I see nothing in the file

[past meadow]

[tepid cove]

I play a lot of the download only games on an old laptop.

[waxen trail]

I did want to add items to the games that you can find in the digsites which will give you fun effects or buffs too but ran out of time 😔

Maybe in the future if the artist I worked with wants to add that

[cunning inlet]

apparently they uploaded a full playthrough on bilibili (link in comments) so there's an alternative to downloading

[atomic stream]

welp

[waxen trail]

Flee button !!!

[atomic stream]

oh yeah

i never clicked that

the game crashed though so

wine moment

[waxen trail]

Nooooo

Oh well lmao

I assume it's an emulation issue

[atomic stream]

well its definitely not an emulation issue since wine literally stands for "wine is not an emulator"

[waxen trail]

Does it stand for that... recursively?

[atomic stream]

yup lol

but yeah jokes aside theres something weird going on when i try to run games through wine where if i switch focus to a different window the game just crashes, has been happening for every game so its something with my installation

[waxen trail]

Maybe I should just make a linux native version after the jam ends

[atomic stream]

that would be really nice!

[native chasm]

finished my calculations, the most u can get is probably 1134 atk

there is a chance that u could go ~9 more but I don't think it's possible

[waxen trail]

Added a linux native to my post-jam version plans

[waxen trail]

That's madness D:

Does it also take into account the recruiting tiles?

For 2 cumilq?

[native chasm]

yea but it needs the whole 15x15 place to be perfectly made

yea

[waxen trail]

Wew

[native chasm]

the way u get 1134 atk is by first getting a lot of frozen tutels (I forgot the name) and chats to delay fog by a lot

then u get 2 cumilq and a lot of imp events

[waxen trail]

Damn, that's impressive calculation

[atomic stream]

and i thought the 50 attack i got in my first run was good

[waxen trail]

The highest I've seen in an actual run is 200 (or 180?), but that's some serious glass cannon builds

This is just the currently theoretical limit

[atomic stream]

thats insane lmao

19 games rated im so tired

like 12 of those in the past 12 hours

so many good games, so little time

[native chasm]

I just realised there is a problem as you'd have to go into fog for 2 turns lol

u still can get over 1100 for sure but it just requires a bit different map ig

[cunning inlet]

I just remembered that last year by the time the rating period ended, the subathon was already finished

I remember being in a public voice call on this server while anxiously waiting for the results, Alex was there too

[waxen trail]

iirc last year the rating period got extended again and again

We can still do the voice call though

[cunning inlet]

yeah I think the initial rating period was like 3 days, and then we were like "that's nowhere near enough" and extended it to a week total?

[waxen trail]

Felt like it wasn't enough and then it got extended to infinity

But that's probably just my memory rather than the actual length

[cunning inlet]

I think my memory is accurate

[native chasm]

fixed, u can still get that amount without going into fog

[torpid bridge]

Almost time

[cunning inlet]

I'm a lot less anxious this year about my result. Last year I just wasn't sure how well accepted my game would be, being that weird mashup of reused assets from other places, but still being a comprehensive experience. Now that I know my submission was accepted with open arms last year, I feel way better about my chances this year

[waxen trail]

I just hope Vedal plays your game on Stream

MAKE HIM SING AGAIN

[native chasm]

Here's solution I came up with. Blue and cyan are for frozen tutel (+3 fog delay), green are for chat (+3 supply), magenta are cumilq, all shades of red are imp events (+8 damage)
basically u gain a bunch of delays for fog so it doesn't move for a while, then u get a lot of attacks

[atomic stream]

that is insane

[waxen trail]

Wow this is insane, very cool!!!

Technically this will grant you the ultimate win

[native chasm]

now that I think of it, there might be a way to get even more than 1134 atk if u move on sides instead of zigzag

oh wait I fogtot, it's not 1134

[torpid bridge]

Oh god last year I only had 2 other people with me, and Fragment Of An AI didn't do too well.

But THIS year was wayyyyyy better

[atomic stream]

someone should calculate the chance to get that run

[native chasm]

u also get some base atk from the crew

I think it's +2 for each of them, right?

[native chasm]

this exact run is like 0%, but there are other equal routes (e.g. diagonally mirrored) that would work same way

though it still is insanely low to get either of those

[potent stirrup]

got my post jam update ready to launch

unless extension ofc

[cunning inlet]

I've got my update ready as well

[hasty drift]

same

[cunning inlet]

granted I didn't change too much

my initial plan was to actually add a 4th area as well, with a "Gymbag" relic at the end, but I ended up deciding I probably wouldn't have time, and I was correct. Otherwise my game would have contained a quiz show as well lmao

[native chasm]

was your game Evil's Malice, iirc?

[cunning inlet]

yes

[native chasm]

oh that's a good one

[torpid bridge]

Guys

[hasty drift]

[past meadow]

[fringe star]

do we get the score immediately?

[native chasm]

if I find a route for 167 turns that will result in exactly no change of fog, which has more than 85 tiles of events, it will be even more OP run

and honestly, that sounds possible

[atomic stream]

everyone with their updates ready to launch meanwhile i didnt even start working on mine

[tacit wasp]

Real

I tried to start the Neuro SDK for Lua yesterday and nothing worked and the instruction are a bit confusing
It's gonna be fun

[atomic stream]

good luck!

[fringe star]

got to add this thing, a really high level boss

[hasty drift]

looks ominous

[tacit wasp]

Looks like a terminator gymbag to me for some reason

[fringe star]

theres a massive horde of enemies at stage 10 cuz i wasnt able to fully implement this guy

[hasty drift]

had a friend beta test my new vers. yea, he was gaming

[native chasm]

same lol

[winter aurora]

My team rated 25% of the games and I rated 33 of them !

[atomic stream]

that is insane

i played 19 games and i have no energy left

[hasty drift]

quick, 90 more ratings for the big 5k

[fringe star]

since people were having difficulties differentiating units i kinda just made the enemies look different

[tacit wasp]

[tacit wasp]

Ah
I haven't played your game yet
I actually just decided that I was gonna play it right now just before the voting phase ends lmao

[earnest wind]

uh what the heck, my game dropped like 10 ranks in pop what happened

It was way higher earlier

[atomic stream]

my stats are really funny

bottom 3% popular, still somehow top 23% rated

[winter aurora]

sometimes game are fast to finish. sometimes they take 1-2h
really depend on what game you are playing
I rated like something like 15 game today

[hasty drift]

yea i had games that literally took 2 min

[winter aurora]

oh weird

[hasty drift]

and there was an incremental type game that takes, half hour? longer? lol

[fringe star]

I know one that might have taken you 2-3 hrs

[atomic stream]

i take more time giving feedback

[winter aurora]

I had played an incremental game but I could just put it in the background

[atomic stream]

even if the game is super short i usually take at least an hour to properly rate and comment

[winter aurora]

are you talking about your game ? my team already rated yours before I can try it

[winter aurora]

I just
don't comment (most of the time) (I still have a kinda self comment in my spreadsheet. but really dirty & kinda only for me)

[sour horizon]

this is very much appreciated

[cunning inlet]

if it wasn't for me watching the subathon, I would have played and rated so many more games

I still played quite a few though in the free time I had

[hasty drift]

last jam there were few ppl who rated every single game but 120 games is easier than 270 lmao

[earnest wind]

ooh interesting, Im not sure why but somehow adding screenshots to my submission lowered its popularity rank? or maybe people are rushing to play other games rn

[atomic stream]

i like when people comment on my games so i try to comment on every game i play

[sour horizon]

I try to leave comments for most games, but then I notice most things were mentioned already by others, so it ends up far shorter than intended
oh well

[native chasm]

damn, that's a lot

I've only rated 50 games

[winter aurora]

I do like to comment but got kinda scared after this warning
I kinda only comment if I think I have something constructive not already said or a funny thing

[atomic stream]

[hasty drift]

got bit too funny

[tacit wasp]

Oh god there's a lot of levels

[signal monolith]

btw who's planning after jam update to their game?

[atomic stream]

me

but ill probably only start working on it tomorrow or the day after

i am exhausted

[tacit wasp]

I will but not instantly after the end of the voting phase

[winter aurora]

We do, one of our dev did worked a lot but I just did not had time

[charred hamlet]

We've got a patch coming once voting ends, then later (hopefully) this week SDK implementation

[native chasm]

I'm not sure if I will tbh but I might

[sour horizon]

I do, both content and Neuro SDK support

[atomic stream]

same

[signal monolith]

I'm making some bug fixes and speedruning qol

MAYBE neuro integration

hard to say

[waxen trail]

I think I'll delay the post-jam version just a bit, a few more polishing thingies I want to finish first. But the SDK is half complete

[native chasm]

there are some thing that would be nice to add but I don't really think someone will even play it xd

[charred hamlet]

Neuro integration is pain when you have essentially 3 different minigames to implement..

[native chasm]

btw a question, imp event gives +2 supply if u have 2 cumilq, right?

[atomic stream]

i pretty much only had time to implement the basic combat systems during the jam so my game has no content its just a single completely randomized fight lol

so i got a lot of work to do

[past meadow]

Us, although our main dev just decided to do it by himself, so I am here stuck doing PR stuff for our game

[waxen trail]

I think it always gives +3 supplies

[native chasm]

oh wait it was +3, nice

[hasty drift]

lgtm 👍 (i helped)

[signal monolith]

being a solo dev has its perks lol

[earnest wind]

Already been working on it

[past meadow]

But I wanted to help

[native chasm]

then u can just get those events instead of chat to get supply while delaying fog, like that

[atomic stream]

i love these diagrams

[native chasm]

1348 is the max attack then

[torpid bridge]

28 MORE MINUTES

IF YOU HAVEN'T RATED SOME GAMES DO IT NOW

[native chasm]

this is probably the final number as I don't think there is a better way to do it, unless something I forgot gives u more fog delay

[torpid bridge]

HOW DID OUR GAME GO FROM 70TH TO 126TH IN POPULARITY HOLY

[atomic stream]

my game stayed in the exact same spot

the whole way through

its actually crazy

it was always exactly 265th

[native chasm]

like 900 more than I got at first

[atomic stream]

idk how itch calculates the popularity rank but theres some magic going on here

[native chasm]

I'm still 46th

[tame rapids]

yeah and we also had extended time for rating and still i had barely managed to rate all 122

[sour horizon]

Phew, I think I'll stop now

[hasty drift]

huge

[past meadow]

[tacit wasp]

damn wtf

[earnest wind]

Same I got a massive drop too, I think people are scrambling to play and rate games before the end

[sour horizon]

Also there are some nice gems among the low rated games too

[hasty drift]

true

[native chasm]

nice job!

[past meadow]

Holy, our game has a lot of ratings (haven't checked in 2 days)

[hasty drift]

yea its most rated

2nd in popularity after tutel rancher

[past meadow]

I still can't stop laughing about it

[native chasm]

alr I will go rate a few more games while there is time

[atomic stream]

i have accepted that i will end with the very unsatisfying number of 19 rated games

[waxen trail]

Only 11 more to get to 100 ratings... Alex, raise the timer

[tame rapids]

less than 15min

wonder whether vedals secret or tutel rancher will be first

[atomic stream]

10 mins

[tame rapids]

also can't wait for jam page to crash

[buoyant flower]

10 minutes until update time

[atomic stream]

lmfao

3 minutes!!

[placid salmon]

[native chasm]

rated 2 more games xd

[tacit wasp]

I rated Neuro Wars, I'm done

[agile nymph]

oooooohhhh

[past meadow]

1 minute

[agile nymph]

last minute...

[buoyant flower]

30s...

[tacit wasp]

Is Vedal gonna have to give away multiple lava lamps or only one? The answer soon

[torpid bridge]

GET READY FOR RESULTS

[agile nymph]

15s

5

[signal monolith]

it wont be frame perfect

lol

[tacit wasp]

15s? Are you into the future?

[agile nymph]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[atomic stream]

over yippyy

[buoyant flower]

[tacit wasp]

Yaaaay

[signal monolith]

nothing changed

other than we can't vote

[placid salmon]

[tame rapids]

jebaited xD

[atomic stream]

[tacit wasp]

Damn, we don't have the results yet

[waxen trail]

On the bright side, Itch.io didn't crash

[tame rapids]

it's probably locked until mods check everything

[signal monolith]

15th place in popularity, not bad

[tame rapids]

whether some tomfoolery didn't occur

[agile nymph]

bruh....

[fringe star]

great job making games everyone

[signal monolith]

gj everyone

[light remnant]

GG guys

[signal monolith]

officer, i'm clean

trust me

[torpid bridge]

We got screwed last hour because of people trying to play the games

[waxen trail]

Many absolute gems this jam, community cooked

[atomic stream]

that was fun

[signal monolith]

imagine playing games in a gam jam smh

[native chasm]

true

[light remnant]

there were so many good ones

it was really fun

[fringe star]

1,000,000% True

[torpid bridge]

Popularity dropped from 70th place to 126th because of the last hour stuff

[placid salmon]

Everyone made great games, you all should be proud

[native chasm]

mine went up instead

[tacit wasp]

Can someone give me the analytic website?

[agile nymph]

importent thing is fun and experience...(famous words before tilting over rankings)

[light remnant]

https://itchanalytics.vercel.app/

[tacit wasp]

Thanks

58th place, Top 20.879%
Not bad for my first game jam I'd say

[tender vigil]

When will we have the results?

[signal monolith]

someday

[fringe star]

Got to 5th which in my opinion is crazy, absolutely crazy

[signal monolith]

in ???

[light remnant]

I got 21th top 25 thats good I'm happy

[waxen trail]

Oh that's popularity

Right?

[torpid bridge]

Our game is 22nd in most rated

[runic gate]

Ok, seriously, where do I find the ratings (the 1 to 5 stars on each category) for my submission? I literally can't find it ANYWHERE on the jam page

[waxen trail]

Still can't see the results

[tame rapids]

or number of rating

[atomic stream]

results arent out yet

[buoyant flower]

Not available yet

[runic gate]

Oh, I would've thought that you'd be able to see your own ratings at the very least...

[signal monolith]

I'm happy tutel rancher is the most popular, based community

[waxen trail]

I wanna be productive and do other stuff but
I know I can't focus until the results are in

[tame rapids]

it's pretty common for game jams to do it, mods need to check for some suspicious stuff

[tacit wasp]

Oh I can't even see how many people rated my game anymore

[torpid bridge]

I just realized: Popularity really doesn't mean all too much unless your game also has a large amount of ratings as well. You could be the most popular game at the moment but still have a lower score than a game who had less people playing.

[waxen trail]

The person who got first place in the Brackeys 2024.2 game jam made an IOS build - no one downloaded it and they upvoted it to shit with 20 spare accounts

Then their entry got deleted

[native chasm]

huh?

I can

[signal monolith]

bruh

[hasty drift]

i mean, i am pretty sure popularity is also outside of the jam, like, if just random ppl played it and stuff

[tame rapids]

what, really, i also took part in that jam xD

[tacit wasp]

Text is no more

[native chasm]

oh, u can't see on the rating page but u can see on analytics page

[tacit wasp]

Oh

[waxen trail]

Public jams are crazy like that, that's why I thought it was mega based that Alex & Vedal added a "must have PC / Web build available"

[torpid bridge]

41 people rated our game

[waxen trail]

No way!! what's your entry from that jam? :D

[misty tree]

This was me last year lol

[signal monolith]

I think it's so alex and vedal can play every game

makes sense

lol

[waxen trail]

True but it prevents some other sus behavior luckily lmao

[signal monolith]

So they won't have to buy a gameboy just to play that one game lol

I'm joking oc

[warm gale]

Moneka cant stop checking the gamejam page and chat, she s a schizo. Tell her to leave from here

[placid salmon]

Of course, that's what I said, if you have more than 20 ratings, you can still top the highest rated game

[waxen trail]

Real

[tame rapids]

tbh that was my weakest jam/game since i was kind of burned out and didn't have time to rate and comment on other games so low ratings rekt my score

[waxen trail]

That's fair then

[tough lichen]

[past meadow]

Such round numbers (2nd in popularity is crazy )

[torpid bridge]

Who here remembers Fragment Of an AI?

[native chasm]

top 0%

[atomic stream]

congrats :3

[torpid bridge]

Also LMAOOOO THE GAME VEDAL HAD TO CLOSE GOT NUMBER ONE IN POPULARITY

[sour horizon]

congrats!

[hasty drift]

its definitely goty

[misty tree]

Popularity has correlation with high ratings cuz good games tend to get both, but by no means does popularity guarantee a good rating

[tacit wasp]

That's crazy

[waxen trail]

Vedal gave them a bite on stream, the people needed more

[atomic stream]

did you see mine

[warped forge]

He gave the masses a taste, and then cut it off before they could be satisfied. Obviously it gets #1

[tame rapids]

yeah high number of ratings does not equal good overall score

[torpid bridge]

Abandoned Pub does deserve all the popularity though, really cool story

[hasty drift]

tutel rancher has been played on at least 3 streams, surely huge boost to popularity

[sour horizon]

Actually, I wonder about this game, which has 6 ratings, and it's the 4th on my page