In right now’s replace, we have got extra instruments for recreation jam hosts with assist for choose suggestions, customized rating, and file locking. If you were not conscious, itch.io was the primary website to allow you to immediately host a recreation jam. Read extra in our internet hosting a recreation jam information.

Anonymous choose suggestions

Some time again we added judges to jams to let hosts elect particular people that might price entries. In the previous, if a choose wished to present private suggestions, they might go away a remark and their message could be marked JUDGE. This does not work for all jams although. If a choose wants to present trustworthy suggestions then it won’t be useful to have their title and a reply button related to what they need to say. 

All judges now get a brand new subject on the jam’s submission web page throughout the score interval that lets them write in suggestions. This works fairly a bit in a different way than feedback:

• Feedback can all the time be left, even when feedback are disabled
• Feedback seems in a particular space on the entries web page, above the feedback
• Feedback does not seem on the sport’s score web page till after the voting interval has ended
• Feedback is nameless, does not have a reply button, and it proven in a random order when greater than 1 choose has posted

We hope this makes it simpler to host jams the place having nameless suggestions is a essential a part of the submission and rating course of. You can see an instance of choose suggestions on this submission web page: YOMOTSU

Judge suggestions is routinely accessible for any jam that has a score interval, no extra choices should be enabled.

Manual ranked standards

itch.io’s voting standards device has all the time allow you to simply create a group voting system primarily based across the standards that’s related to your jam. When we added judges we made it doable to limit the voting to solely judges. This was a step in the fitting path, however not versatile sufficient for when folks need each a group score and a choose score. 

We’ve added a brand new Manually ranked choice when creating standards. A manually ranked standards can have the end result order manually specified. You simply must record out the sport pages and their rank. It’s not essential to rank each submission, be happy to record the highest 10, 20, and many others. Just like voted ranks, handbook ranks may also share the numerical place an entry is available in. For instance, you’ll be able to have two entries share 1st place if there was a tie.

You can select how a standards is ranked when creating it on the jam’s edit web page. Manually ranked outcomes will solely seem after the score interval is over. If you do not add them in time, then they will seem as quickly as you add them.

You can see an instance of a manually ranked standards on the Indie Game Maker Contest 2017. 

Locked uploads

Up till now, jams on itch.io typically have used the distinction system to ensure folks weren’t altering their submissions throughout the score interval. For jams the place prizes are concerned, it may be fairly essential to implement the submission guidelines. Although it is technically doable to examine the add dates, that is not sensible. Hosts can now use the brand new locked uploads choice to forestall submitters from updating or including new information to their pages throughout the score interval. Submission house owners can proceed to replace the web page’s design and outline throughout the score interval although.

The lock solely takes have an effect on throughout the score interval, after the jam has ended submission house owners are price to launch their submit jam builds. Additionally, if the submission interval continues to be lively, information can nonetheless be modified. Submitting early will nonetheless allow you to publish updates proper up till the deadline.

This choice is simply accessible for ranked jams, and you’ll find the choice on the jam’s edit web page.

Thanks for studying. I hope you loved these updates and look ahead for extra. If there’s something you’d prefer to see with our jams system go away a remark.