our team got #8 out of 330 games! not bad, considering the enormous skewing of low ratings, it felt like a far greater gamble. i went and compiled some of the numbers from past jams and discovered just how much of an outlier this jam is with its huge $100k prize incentive. there was also conversation in the discord along those lines, and although i don't want to seem particularly jealous or ungrateful, i do want to talk critically about how itch.io could improve features they have available to jam organizers!

things like allowing organizers to mark winners completely separate from voting results, and other tools to adjust scoring when results can become significantly skewed for high profile submissions.