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Ayyy results are out. But hm, where is that profile bling I was promised. My beautiful participation award?
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THE RESULTS ARE UP!!!!
Congrats to all the winners, and to everyone who entered! We had a lot of favorites, so it was really hard to choose. Sorry about the delay again, and thanks so much to all the devs, new and returning, that participates, and thanks to everyone who voted! ^-^
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> *Originally posted by **[BigBlingThing](/forums/1/topics/673084?page=7#10859662)**:*
> Ayyy results are out. But hm, where is that profile bling I was promised. My beautiful participation award?
We're working on it! Results were just now calculated, and with Thanksgiving coming up this week, a lot of us are going to be busy until early next week, but you can expect those sweet sweet awards to show up around then!
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The only thing that disappoints me a bit is that the judges awards were given to games that already won the major categories. I kind of assumed those were going to be saved to call attention to other good entries. Not to say the games that won weren't great, just that there were some good games that didn't win anything. I really enjoyed The Voyage to the 10th Dimension personally.
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Great jam, everyone! I really enjoyed a lot of these entries and had fun playing through them.
From our first jam, I remember there was some call to explain our judge choices, so here's mine! I was in charge of the team organizing the 10th anniversary celebrations, including the boost to the level cap, and that cap theft joke in Troubles in N-Town was terrific. The choice of numbers for all the different characters (bartender 21, priest 33, rocker 27, etc) were all well-chosen, and there's clearly a lot of potential for more chapters and numerical allusions that guide their characters. I'm excited to see what comes next!
> *Originally posted by **[Cal010](/forums/1/topics/673084?page=7#10859719)**:*
> The only thing that disappoints me a bit is that the judges awards were given to games that already won the major categories. I kind of assumed those were going to be saved to call attention to other good entries. Not to say the games that won weren't great, just that there were some good games that didn't win anything. I really enjoyed The Voyage to the 10th Dimension personally.
We did highlight some of the ones that hadn't won (though mine was a winner in one category), but it's mainly our favorites for whatever reason. Mine's very specific to me, as I explained above. :)
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If there's a list of everyone that's participated in this Game Jam, I can update that forum identifier script I set up for the first jam.
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My judge's choice award went to [10 Ingredients](www.kongregate.com/games/Husenicar/10-ingredients). The graphics in this game are outstanding, especially considering the constraint of a game jam timeline. It also has a thematically-appropriate soundtrack. The gameplay was pretty straightforward and, oddly enough, the early levels were far more difficult than the later levels. The game fell short of winning Best Graphics so it felt appropriate to give them a nod.
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It ws so much easier to grab the moving ones than the stationary ones! They'd just plop right into my mystical hand :D
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So, I was going to make this post about my reasons for choosing my "Judge's Choice" award, which was [Ten Points](http://www.kongregate.com/games/sergey7c4/10-points), so I loaded the game to get the link for my post, and now it's past time for bed and I still haven't written my post.
I appropriately called my award "Most Addictive", and that's why I'm up too late. If you played too much 2048 at some point, you'll know what I mean. There are some things I prefer about this, especially as you intuitively recognize more patterns. An early comment compared it to Minesweeper, explaining that it can feel very simple, but then actually gets deeper as you get into it, and experiment with the different ways to reach towards a goal.
This was actually my "This game needs to win something" vote, but I would have been tempted to give a special award to N-Town if CMan hadn't done so. Unless you have played it really thoroughly, there are probably some in-jokes and Easter Eggs you haven't discovered yet.
I also want to give a special shoutout award for the "Most Delightful British Accent Voice Acting by a Brazilian Developer" in the jam. This award comes with no prizes, profile bling, or kreds, only my praise. [sollinxp](http://kongregate.com/accounts/sollinxp), Sir, you have my praise.
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Congrats to all entrants, there is a bunch of fun games here ;)
> *Originally posted by **[adv0catus](/forums/1/topics/673084?page=7#10859751)**:*
> If there's a list of everyone that's participated in this Game Jam, I can update that forum identifier script I set up for the first jam.
[Games with the KGJ2 tag](http://www.kongregate.com/KGJ2-games)
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I lost again.
Well, congratulations to everyone!
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Thank you all for the jam!
Respect to all participants!
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Best Interactivity and Feel, Audience Awards, top 3 Best Graphics, YAY !
And congratulations to the winner! that was a very good experience. I will be here for the next one for sure!
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Congratulations to all the winners. All 3 games I voted for won.
I don't want to sound mad that I didn't win but I'm a little bit disappointed that some games weren't given a chance to be played for more than 30 seconds by the judges (I'm not talking only about my game) considering that the winners annoucement was delayed for 4 days.
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> *Originally posted by **[andromatta](/forums/1/topics/673084?page=1#10772509)**:*
> **Audience Awards** : The crowd favorites, by your vote!
> *Originally posted by **[andromatta](/forums/1/topics/673084?page=1#10772508)**:*
> (link removed) We're excited for you all to play and rank your favorite games from the jam, just make sure to do so **before Wednesday, November 16th, at 5pm PST**
> Check out all the games **[here](http://www.kongregate.com/KGJ2-games)**, and vote **[here](http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/3177989/New-Survey)**.
I may have missed something, i thought that "audience awards" was the numbers of plays and I expected to see "[Incremental Farm Idle](http://www.kongregate.com/games/RevelBase/incremental-farm-idle)" here. I have never noticed the link to surveygizmo.com before today.
(Pat is slapping himself and repeats ten times: "I need to read more carefully" :D)
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Well done to all the winners!
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Damn, I missed the bit about voting on SurveyGizmo, and my favourite game [Troubles in N-Town](http://www.kongregate.com/games/artiste_inconnu/troubles-in-n-town-chapter-a-10) was one of the runners up, and my second favourite [The Story of 10](http://www.kongregate.com/games/Vogd/the-story-of-10) was the other one. Sorry, guys.
Oh well, congrats to all the winners.
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Kongrats to all our winners and honestly everyone who participated! There was some tough choices and I wish I could have picked more games.
I'd like to congratulate the [merging_tides](http://www.kongregate.com/accounts/merging_tides) team for their game [10 Aspects of Fear](http://www.kongregate.com/games/merging_tides/10-aspects-of-fear) and give a little more detail on why they were my pick. I found the game concept enjoyable and unique. The idea of opening the doors to banish your fears interesting. It reminded me of elements I enjoyed from games like amorphous+ with the trying not to get overwhelmed, but the idea of avoiding and opening doors instead of direct combat was new and compelling. I think the instructions could use a little clarification and that the Behind the Door mode might need some tuning, but overall for a game made in only 10 days it was excellent and worth recognition, in my opinion.
Also I'd like to call out to my runner up choices. I truely enjoyed [10 minigames](http://www.kongregate.com/games/Psycho345/10-minigames) it was very stimulating and made me think of Big Brain Academy. I wish there was more than 5 games, but understand with the time limit that was tough. The puzzel game [10 points](http://www.kongregate.com/games/sergey7c4/10-points) was another favorite of mine. It was a simple concept and easy to understand but very difficult to master. [10 seconds](http://www.kongregate.com/games/NaiveGames/10-seconds) was super colorful game. I really liked that the face was happy when you were on the right color and switched to sad when you were. The obsitcles like the oil were interesting. I also liked that sometimes the color word would show up with text in a different color or upside down.
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Congrats everyone! I really wish I had participated, but I didn't work hard enough. When do you think you'll be having another jam? Will it be another 5 months?
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> *Originally posted by **[Psycho345](/forums/1/topics/673084?page=7#10860724)**:*
> I don't want to sound mad that I didn't win but I'm a little bit disappointed that some games weren't given a chance to be played for more than 30 seconds by the judges (I'm not talking only about my game) considering that the winners annoucement was delayed for 4 days.
There's API proof of exactly how far each person made it while playing my game, so I'm inclined to agree. But there's also something to be said about games not grabbing the player's attention right away as well, so my goal next time is to make something that players want to finish. I think my game was good quality, but maybe not interesting enough. In the last jam I went for interesting and it ended up being confusing. So I'm still working on finding the right balance. Perhaps a platform game next time.
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I also find it weird that 8 games got 18 awards (I'm not counting the audience awards). That's 2.25 awards per game. All of the prize winners (except for one) will get **2 or more prizes** (not counting judges awards)!
For the next jam I suggest at least separating the "best game" winners from the rest. It's obvious they are the best in multiple categories - that's why they got the "best game" award. Just give them a bigger prize (2 years of Kong+?). That would give a chance to more participants. I just can't imagine a situation where someone makes a **really** good game, wins in all categories and gets like 15 years of Kong+ or whatever the prizes will be and the rest get nothing.
Oh, and I also thought the judge awards will be more like a wildcard but it's just honoring the same people for the 3rd time.
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Congratulations to all winners! Well deserved!
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> *Originally posted by **[Psycho345](/forums/1/topics/673084?page=7#10860724)**:*
> Congratulations to all the winners. All 3 games I voted for won.
>
> I don't want to sound mad that I didn't win but I'm a little bit disappointed that some games weren't given a chance to be played for more than 30 seconds by the judges (I'm not talking only about my game) considering that the winners annoucement was delayed for 4 days.
My text got deleted here, sorry, I meant to post that some of you may be vastly underestimating how much I suck at some types of games. :p I definitely played Psycho and Cal's for more than 5 minutes each, probably on my main account. You can look at the API and laugh at me ;p
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