I really don’t like how some people judge other games. There are bascially two categories of judges i don’t like:

-The Hasty

Why wasting my time playing your game? I’ll just open the menu and see if there is music and the graphic is cool, then i give you 2/3 stars on everything so you’re average and i can quickly move to next. Eventually i write a comment by mixing up words i can find in description and/or other comments. The theme is ten seconds? That is the time i use for rate one entry.

-The Pimp

I’ve played your game, it was a platformer with strange and unrelated colored pixel that jump without following any physics rule and move very strangely with pointless thing to kill. Totally unrelated to the theme. I’ll silently give you very little star but i don’t write anything on comment so you can’t understand what’s wrong and grow up. Occasionally I’ll write “Amazing!” or “Very nice entry!”

To all Hasty voters out there: Why you do that? Just to have more coolness and subsequently more rating? Is all that matters to you? If everyone vote like you, every rate you gain using this method will be completely pointless. Nothing to learn. Take your time. Fix a minimum of Five minutes to judge a game. Even if can be finished in twelve seconds, replay it. Analyze it. Five minutes is not so much, and the developer of the game you are judging deserve some respect.

To all Pimp: You’re not a bad guy. I know, you don’t want to be rude. You understand how much effort is needed to make a game in so little time and probably you perfectly know how bad can make you feel a negative comment. But hey, we’re there to learn how to make good games. If noone tell me where i was wrong, how can i learn something? Constructive criticism is the way.

P.S. I’m not referring about any particular case happened in this edition of ludum dare, I’m sorry if someone is offended by that thought. If you disagree, you can write a comment. That’s how constructive criticism work. And I love it.