>>15669Assuming you are a judge and not lying (it's freakin bbw-chan, I'm not asking anyone to prove anything) then I respect the hell out of this response. I think community scoring would ultimately not work for this exact reason. A popularity contest would just make things worse. The more I reflect, my impatience with the time it took for results to come out was exactly that, impatience.
Now let me get this can of pringles off my shoulders, apparently I have enough to share.
Was the judging taking so long the problem? No. Was the theme the problem? No. Is the scoring system the problem? No. Was the fake extension the problem? No. The fact they "missed" some of the nominees? No.
It's the fact that all of these occurred with Killif and Grot taking zero responsibility for it that's the problem. The post mortem is a bigger slap in the face the more I read it. Everyone on the planet has been fucked by Covid, not just the two people in charge. Allowing these mistakes to compound without truly answering them is the issue. The comments on it either praise, or their criticisms get brushed off.
I think two round scoring is flawed, but I think something good to come from it is MORE JUDGES. In fact, I think having the panel of five judges all do a single scoring would be better, compared to Grot and Kilif getting to have the final say. Them having so much direct control without accountability is the main issue I have with the jam. You can't have a perfect democracy, but having more community voices, experienced developers involved helps a ton. More and more I don't think wild cards are a bad idea, but I'm having a hard time to see how they can be implemented without making this more contrived and confusing.
As for the judging, someone has to come in last place, and people can't be completely objective. I don't think Momulator deserves this disrepect, especially when it was ultimately second to Honey Combat.
I am not a developer, I am not a patron, I am a fuckwit who likes fat games, but if the community is going to have a central forum, then it's leaders need to act like leaders. I loved a lot of the games the came out of the jam, I just want the mods to respect the effort they ask of people. If your developers are honestly fine with how the jam was run, then I guess I can't keep bitching, but get more help, and stop these compounding mistakes, and Kilif, if you're reading this, you also "missed" that camtbf was nominated for both art and audio, so with all due respect, cram it up your ass.