Hello, everyone! I want to ask questions and open a discussion about leaderboards in games and in jam submissions, especially.
Can you tell how often you add score and leaderboards to your jam game? And how do players make competitions for the best score or best runs in your game? Please tell me your experience and stories too!
And here is our experience:
Jam:
When the brainstorm was done and we came up with the idea of Ice Break Delivery, we thought that leaderboards and a score system would allow players to compete with each other and add depth to the game, but the time was very restricted, and we finished all gameplay mechanics but without such additional features as a score system and leaderboards.
Post-jam edition:
Yesterday we released the post-jam edition and also added a score system to the game as part of the post-jam edition, and finally the idea of the game core works fully as intended. Also, we expanded the score system, and you get points from many different actions. It also scales with completed days and can lead to interesting strategies for players.
What we learned:
Now there are 3 days left in total, and I think no one is interested in playing and scoring the best runs in our game now. Also, here is a second problem because the score system lacks leaderboards where players can compete with each other, and having an online leaderboard directly in the game is a huge advantage, I think.
And we had our lesson where a score system must be necessarily added within 72 hours of the jam if the game needs such score mechanics and was originally designed as an idea.
What do you think about it? :penguin:

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