Now that it's totally over, we can think about what we should do again and what could be improved- this topic is intended to consolidate those thoughts.
Feel free to move it to Post Mortem if that would be more appropriate. (Those are more anecdotal about the last jam, imo).
SuggestionMy main suggestion for the next MLGJ would be to add a bug report section on the game page. My game ran fine for me, but Oracion just got a blank window. How many others had that problem? I have no idea! This applies to small glitches too; I'm here to
learn as much as to have fun making a game.
As a developer I would love to get bug reports to help make my future games more robust.
I know there was a general comments section, but a small text field under the Twilight Sparkle rating or a button beside the download might get more people to give feedback specifically on this.
What worked wellAs far as experiments that worked, ordering by number of ratings seems to have helped even out the voting, and adding the comments section was pretty good for getting general feelings about the game.
What ideas to do you all have about the next jam?