{"author_name":"moltanem2000","cat":"LD #19 - Discovery - 2010","comments":[{"author_name":"Devenger","time":"January 11, 2011 2:24 am","epoch":1294730640,"text":"I’m sure a lot of people feel there’s some injustice with the ratings they’ve received (lines of 1s, etc.); perhaps it’s best to take the whole ratings thing with a pinch of salt. Fair shout on the wanting more constructive criticism front, though.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"jolle","time":"January 11, 2011 2:41 am","epoch":1294731660,"text":"I rated a lot of games with audio as N\/A (or dash, as you put it) because I didn’t have access to audio when testing them. However, this doesn’t count towards the average audio score so it shouldn’t be much of a problem.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"January 11, 2011 4:26 am","epoch":1294737960,"text":"I think the most important is the last line you wrote:
\n “I\u2019m really happy with the game I made,…” That is all that counts try to ignore the rest.
\n You shouldn’t let any negative feelings to you from the votings with knowing that only ignorant people seemed to have voted on your game. \ud83d\ude09 Go on improving it!","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"January 11, 2011 10:34 am","epoch":1294760040,"text":"Note: I haven’t actually played your game and didn’t rate it, so I’ll try to check back in the morning if I remember and see what I actually think.
\n My best guess for the graphics is simply that someone really didn’t like the style. But for audio, I have given at least one 1 in the past simply because the audio got really annoying? I put quite a few hours into recording a track myself and ended up with a 2 because it didn’t fit the game at all and kinda sucked.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"GreaseMonkey","time":"January 11, 2011 10:07 pm","epoch":1294801620,"text":"“…and my game being made in game-maker, I see no reason for it not to work.”","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"machinas","time":"January 12, 2011 5:50 pm","epoch":1294872600,"text":"\/agree","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1294717740,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"67566","p_author":"moltanem2000","p_authorkey":"1548","p_urlkey":"103369","p_title":"Lolwut Audio","p_cat":"LD #19 - Discovery - 2010","p_event":"LD19","p_time":"1294717740","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"6","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"1548","us_name":"moltanem2000","us_username":"mortar","event_start":"1292544000","event_key":"5","event_name":"LD19"},"text":"

I’m mildly baffled at the audio ratings my game recieved.<\/p>\n

[ – – 5 \u00a03 2 – – 4 – 1 1 – 2 2 1 – 2 1- -]<\/p>\n

First off, look at all those dashes. My game certainly had audible sound, and my game being made in\u00a0game-maker, I see no reason for it not to work. I do however appreciate the\u00a0amount\u00a0of dashes I got versus the\u00a0amount\u00a0of ones, Protip: make sure those headphones are plugged in.
\n Although I may be\u00a0biased, my audio certainly deserved more than a one. \u00a0This makes me mildly angry because those ones are mostly either
\n A) I’m on mac\/linux and I’m jelly because I can’t play it but I’ll vote anyways, I’ll just give audio 1\/5
\n B) I don’t hear audio, has nothing to do with the fact my volume is turned down. I’m in a bad mood so I’ll rate 1\/5 instead of n\/a
\n C) the game only has one song and one sfx, I am completely ignoring the fact that the game really doesn’t need any more than that and rating 1\/5 because there aren’t 50 songs and\/or they’re not chip-tunes and all pixel art games need chip tunes<\/em><\/p>\n

I also got a lot of dashes for community, which is almost more gobsmacking. Remember people, there is a handy button for viewing the person’s journal<\/p>\n

The humor category also bit me hard, as I didn’t make a funny game. Which make memad at the category, as I’m sure I’ve said before, giving a game props for being funny is great, but we shouldn’t be forced into making a funny game, and we shouldn’t turn a cold shoulder to more serious or neutral games in the process.<\/p>\n

Anyways, <\/rant>, I think I’m just\u00a0disappointed\u00a0because I got 95% praise in the comments, and then I get on the computer today to see this. I’d really appreciate it if people commented for reasons other than to\u00a0congratulate\u00a0as well. Being told your game is great is good and all, but nowhere near as helpful as some good ‘ole\u00a0constructive\u00a0criticism. A few people commented that the game was “missing something to make me really enjoy it” and it frustrated me that they offered no solutions (as in, I had to sit around for a week and figure it out myself).<\/p>\n

I’m really happy with the game I made, but this puts a bit of a damper on my desire to work on it more.<\/p>\n

also whoever rated 2\/5 for graphics. . . just . . .<\/em><\/p>","time":"January 10th, 2011 10:49 pm","title":"Lolwut Audio"}