Game Jam proposal

[Misty]

My proposal is a better GMC Jam player. Something you can give a score from 0 to 100.
Like 99, 98 etc. And it gives a Student Score, like A+, B+, etc. This is sane and rational to me.

Because otherwise, people have to sort the order manually, which is draining and tedious. The new jam player should auto-sort ranking. We are seeing evidence that people simply do not have the energy to order and sort all the games manually.

Also, there should be 4 new categories, like gamespot. Gameplay, Graphics, Sound, Atmosphere (atmosphere accounts for story, immersion, and theme).
Each takes 25% of score weight. And is rated 0 through 10.
So if you give gameplay a 5, it will add 5*25/10=12.5
So if gameplay is 5, graphics is 10, sound is 10, atmosphere is 10, the final score of the game would be
87.5 B+.

Also, would be nice is a screenshot/thumbnail of each game, as well as a search engine to easily find the game via name or author. Thumbnails would not be mandatory, but you could add it and it would show up in the Jam player.

 

[curato]

I have to admit that is why mine doesn't have a first to last ranking on my post. I assumed that is why I was clicking poor ok good etc and it would export my rankings to review. I had a plan for that before I tried the player but now if I add that to my post, I have to go through everything again to re score them.

 

[Dr. Wolf]

(shouldn't this be in the Jam forum...?)

If something like this is implemented, please make it optional. I don't believe that the overall quality of a game is equal to the sum of its quality in various categories. Sometimes, the game that's actually the most rewarding to play isn't the most well-rounded. Different designs and different genres rely on the different disciplines to very different degrees. Also, it's common for games to have-- or lack-- a "certain something" that's hard to fit into any particular category, but makes all the difference to whether or not it's actually a good game. In order to be able to give games the rankings I believe they deserve, I need to be able to order the games manually, because no automatic system can capture what I feel really ought to be a holistic rather than a formulaic evaluation.

 

[Misty]

(shouldn't this be in the Jam forum...?)

If something like this is implemented, please make it optional. I don't believe that the overall quality of a game is equal to the sum of its quality in various categories. Sometimes, the game that's actually the most rewarding to play isn't the most well-rounded. Different designs and different genres rely on the different disciplines to very different degrees. Also, it's common for games to have-- or lack-- a "certain something" that's hard to fit into any particular category, but makes all the difference to whether or not it's actually a good game. In order to be able to give games the rankings I believe they deserve, I need to be able to order the games manually, because no automatic system can capture what I feel really ought to be a holistic rather than a formulaic evaluation.

Fine, but games still need to have an absolute score, which would be sorted by the machine.

Example: If you rate a game 98, and another game 87, in no case should the 87 game appear higher in the final ranking.