Hey everyone! So, let me start by saying that this is my first Ludum Dare and it is a pure joy to take part in it :smile:

But on to my rant. I always endeavor to understand stuff I come upon. My husband even makes fun of me that my favorite way of interacting with the world is asking questions :wink: And I tried to understand this Smart and Classic Balance stats, believe me, I tried.

1) At the beginning I believed the provided description and assumed a simple correlation: Classic derived from the amount of ratings you gave, Smart derived from the amount of ratings you gave and the amount of Karma you got. But then I noticed that both those balances change over time with no additional data imputed (no additional ratings or Karma).

2) After analyzing this, I came to a conclusion that both just decay over time. Which would make sense if they are supposed to represent activity. And here I thought that I'm done, I finally figured it out!

But then I noticed these scary things: - High Classic Balance with barely any ratings given, example

• High Smart Balance with little Karma and quite a bit, but not that many in comparison to my other examples, ratings given

So, how does the above examples compare to those that have many more ratings given, much more Karma and yet much lower balances? For example:

Can anybody explain this to me? Where do those Balances REALLY come from? Are they simply alien entities beyond my puny human understanding? Will they take over the world when I'm sleeping? :wink: If anybody can tell me how those are actually counted, I will be eternally grateful.

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It's been a real pain, I must say. The most common site this jam for me is this: The comments just don't want to load and the comment section seems to think I am not logged in (even though I am, I swear!). Sometimes, refreshing the page several times helps, sometimes it doesn't. Logging out and in again helps as much as refreshing.

It doesn't seem to matter much if there are a lot of comments or little comments. It happens on my pc, my laptop and my phone - so it's not a system problem. It also happens both on Chrome and Firefox - so it's not a browser problem either.

As a person who likes to comment and give feedback for every game I play (I like receiving feedback, good or bad - so I figure that others like it too :smile:), I find this bug (if it is a bug) very very very bad.

So, anybody else experiencing this?

In The Last Guardian you can! Come and check out our game (there is a web version): https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-last-guardian. Constructive feedback is always much appreciated!

So, the way of counting your Smart Balance was changed. can anybody explain to me how it was changed exactly? From the vague description I read (that I can't seem to find anymore, should have bookmarked) I surmised that "leaving quality feedback", as it was put, was supposed to matter much more. I took that to mean that when you leave feedback and get Karma for it, that is what will matter most for the balance in the new system.

But today I took a look on the first page of games sorted exactly by feedback. And all of those have Smart balance in the minus. So, I was clearly wrong in my interpretation. Now that I know that I figured stuff out incorrectly, can anybody explain to me how it actually works now? I would be grateful, as it bugs me when I don't understand something :)

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Now learn how to kill with rain! In "The Last Guardian" you can turn the weather itself onto your enemies. Try it here (there is a Web version, as well as Windows, macOS and Linux): https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-last-guardian

you are happy when they "hug" your enemies :)

In The Last Guardian you play a druid with unmatched gardening skills and rain chanting powers. Grow your own prickly friends! Check out our game here (there is a Web version, as well as Windows, macOS and Linux): https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-last-guardian.

Constructive feedback is always much appreciated!

First, I want to thank everybody who already played our game and commented. All the constructive feedback, ideas and appreciation are invaluable to us! You all rock :smile:!

Second, we decided to develop "The Last Guardian" into a full game. It will need a new name before it is done, as the current name is trademarked (who knew :wink: ?!). If you are interested, you can stay updated about our progress at itch.io https://limboofwonders.itch.io/the-last-guardian-full-game or on our newly-created twitter http://twitter.com/limboofwonders.

Thirdly, with only 5 days left on LD46, we want to focus on getting as much valuable community feedback as possible. It will help us in developing the game and finalizing our vision for it. So I will be focusing hard on playing/rating and leaving feedback for your games. If you play our game and share your opinion, I will definitely play and comment on yours! See you there :smile:

We just released a post-jam version of the game! In it, we included the most requested fixes (like faster walking speed for the Druid), as well as some stuff that almost nobody asked for (like illustrating the intro). Now the game has two difficulty levels to chose from and it's harder to build your Cactus army.

If you haven't played "The Last Guardian", but would like to, you can find it here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-last-guardian. Use the jam version for rating.

But if you already played our game but always wished the Druid would go faster - go ahead, try the new and improved version! Here is a list of changes: - Harder difficulty available (optional) - Illustrated cutscene - Increased movement speed - Tree drops seeds which you now need to plant cacti - Improves attack and stagger animations - Added options and pause menu - Game win condition is more clear now - Added simple screen fading on scene transitions - Druid comments when tree is in danger

And now back to playing your games :smile: And if you play and leave a comment on ours, I will definitely play yours!

Attention! We participate in feedback exchange program! Play our game and leave us your honest feedback, and I will do the same for you (been doing that the whole jam actually :))!

Please, leave your comment with what you liked, disliked and any ideas for improvement. You can find our entry here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-last-guardian (Web available, also Linux, Windows and macOS)

It was a wild ride - I played well over 200 games and left feedback on each and every one. Never have I expressed so many opinions in such a short span of time :laughing:

Our game got 176 ratings and so many great comments with feedback. I really can't thank you all enough for those! Thank you for all the great games I played, and for not-so-great ones as well :wink: It was a learning experience for me and a great community experience as well.

See you next jam!

Thanks to all of you we decided to develop our game into a full one. We already have so many ideas and plans on where to go with it! If you feel interested, you can follow our exploits at itch.io https://limboofwonders.itch.io/the-last-guardian-full-game or on our newly-created twitter http://twitter.com/limboofwonders.

First time in our not-so-long jam history, we have actually made a post-jam version of our game. And we're quite happy with how it turned out. There are no world-shattering changes, just improvements and fun additions. You can try it out in a web version here.

If you'd like to see/rate our original submission, it can be found in a standard place. Have a great rest of the jam :smiley_cat:

So, I seem to be not trustworthy enough to put links in my blogposts. Over the years I've been participating in LD, I made quite a bit of blogposts (I bet on at least 20). And Mike did say in his post that "the barrier of entry" would be low. So, did anyone discover how many blogpost you need to make to become trustworthy enough? :smiley_cat:

Test link

I had a dream :wink:... an idea to express my love for this awesome jam of ours with a t-shirt. So, I made some designs in our Redbubble store. Aren't they just cute :grin: I'm very new to this Redbubble endeavor, so I'm quite excited!

https://LimboOfWonders.redbubble.com