{"author_name":"Jishenaz","cat":"LD #28","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"January 9, 2014 12:17 pm","epoch":1389287820,"text":"First off your rank is within your category of submission (compo or jam). So you are #776 out of #1010, still it puts 25% of the compo entries after you. If you look at the star-value for your humor rating it is actually your lowest score in terms of stars. To some extent this could imply that there are many non-humorous games. Which is probably partially true. However part of it is that people don’t think that the categories are optional when voting, which indeed they are. You can, as I think you should, skip voting for audio if the game has none (alternatively maybe you should vote 1 because many will think they have to give a vote on all categories and some will sloppily give 3s to most things). In that sense, in part, I would agree with you. But I would say that its simply a graphical thing. There could be a N\/A button that you can click instead of the stars. Voting system is fine as it is.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"January 9, 2014 1:50 pm","epoch":1389293400,"text":"Believe me it gets worse. I once made a game that I thought had decent graphics. After it ended, I was playing a game when I suddenly realized that it had placed better than I did in the “graphics” category. Nothing wrong with that, other than the fact that it was a text adventure!","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1389285060,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"33988","p_author":"Jishenaz","p_authorkey":"26581","p_urlkey":"69532","p_title":"LD Needs Optional Rating Categories","p_cat":"LD #28","p_event":"LD28","p_time":"1389285060","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"2","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"26581","us_name":"Jishenaz","us_username":"\/author\/jishenaz\/","event_start":"1386892800","event_key":"20","event_name":"LD28"},"text":"

I was looking at the ratings for my game<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"jisLd28Results\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Don’t get me wrong; I’m not disappointed with these numbers at all, considering how simple my game is. However, I’m surprised by a few of these numbers, especially Humor.<\/p>\n

Given I am 776th place in Humor, that makes my game “more humorous” than over half of the entries in Ludum Dare 28 (assuming over 2000+ entries). But my game has no humor in it at all; it was not an intended focus.<\/p>\n

So one of my questions is: how did my game rate so high in Humor when it didn’t have any? My other question is: would it be possible in the future for Ludum Dare to have certain categories, like Humor, be optional? Like for example, I want to be able to disable Humor for any game I make that doesn’t have any humor in it. Same with audio, etc.<\/p>\n \n

Tags: categories<\/a>, ratings<\/a><\/p>","time":"January 9th, 2014 11:31 am","title":"LD Needs Optional Rating Categories"}