Only game-crashing fixes are allowed and you should link to the original version.

Anything else is forbidden 😛

in fact I uploaded the wrong version for the pc version, web and mac has the missing key not missing ( ‘-‘ )

That wouldn’t really fix the problem. If people wanted to cheat they could still very easily replace the file wherever they linked it. I’m hosting my game on my own site, so I could have easily updated the zip file if I really wanted to. Unless the games were all uploaded to this site, it will just have to be based on the honor code, which is fine, I don’t think that many people are really trying to cheat the system.

I agree with JoeDev_net: editing your game should be locked out after the deadline, but even that is not enough, as it’s even easier just to change the actual game. I think a disappointingly high number of people are still making changes, and it just makes the whole thing less fun. I don’t have a good solution (unless Ludum Dare wants to pay to host the 1000 games we’ll have next time), but as more and more people who are less cool than previous LD-ers join, it’s going to become a bigger problem.

Incentives? Oh dear, rating even more than 600 entries is going to be a nightmare.

There are also some really solid arguments against doing anything more to prevent editing after the deadline. I’ve posted links to my game all over the place, and since I host it myself, I plan on replacing that page with an updated version of the game (with a link to the original) after the contest ends. A lot of people are going to have a lot of complaints if they can’t host their own game.

As someone who is suddenly very uncool, apparently, I feel the need to defend myself and maybe put some perspective on things.