Ready.Set.Jam! Update 

Cool cool! The last round was definitely the more exciting round. I'm totally in favor of that. 👍

New format sounds cool. Excited for more epsiodes! However, I do am not super psyched about the winner being announced in a youtube short. That feels a bit anti-climactic. I'd prefer if you judge it offline with say a small panel and release a completely self contained video. I liked the feedback, and was hoping the new format would have a 2 minute round robin discussion.

I question the removal of judges. Opening it for the community to judge only opens up discrimination to decide the winner. When it was weighted towards the guest judges, you could heavily limit the impact of discrimination on the results. Furthermore, members of the community aren't necessarily at the same experience level as the guest judges from before, and very well may lack important insights en masse. The feedback I received from the judges in series 3 was far more useful to me as a developer trying to improve my skills than anything that was said in the comments. I do like the swap to head to head.

I mourn the loss of the scope creep round, but it was a necessary removal. I wish that the judges hadn't gone though, hearing the judges' feedback was one of my favorite parts, but I understand if it was just too much to organize and get people onboard for. The one-on-one format seems like a lot of fun though, I look forward to it

Round 2 was the best part of the old format, round 3 always felt like a disappointment since it didn't keep building on the game. I think if it's a single game then maybe more than one theme and restriction would be cool :)

I'm really glad a core idea of this is letting lesser known devs show their stuff to more people. Honestly I found your channel through miziziz's 4 dev 1 art series so I'm glad to see you doing the same thing.

Could be fun :D

The new format sounds great! :D Think it will definitely be a lot easier for you to manage as well. Looking forward to applying!

you should call it READY. SET. DUEL!

Hopefully this will be more engaging and easier for you to make. Good luck, can't wait to see the new videos!

This sounds awesome!

I love this series. This should be the most fun project you are doing right now. Good luck to all the participants and you of course.

I love this idea! I think it takes a lot of pressure off the contestants too as it’s tough to commit to 3 whole games. Just submitted my application. Would love to be considered! And great video as always.

I do fully understand how the setup for a Ready.Set.Jam. would be so... complex, but I have a couple of problems (and solutions) with that idea. Problems: -Relying on the community for votine opens up a lot of oppertunity's for bias and discrimination. My biggest concern is that big youtubers like Dani would crush the compition, simply because people who who he is. -The idea of it being one round takes a lot away from what I think is special about this jam. I love seeing jam games evolve, so it's a shame that this would be one round only. My Idea: I suggest making the jam jam follow this layout: -2 weeks build time for Classic Game -2 days of judging -1 week build time of Scope Creep -2 Days of Judging -End I think that cuts down on time quite a bit while still retaining the fun of the originals. Also, I think that 2 contestants is fine but guest judges should stay, but if 4ish guest judges are too much, than you can cut down on the number. That is just my opinion though, I'll I'm still intrested regardless of what happens :)

Yes! thanks for including us!

i love the new format

I am stoked with the new format

This is awesome! I'm going to look into applying. I don't have much video editing experience so I'm thinking I might make a video application to test myself to see if I could cut it.

Excited for more episodes. I'll miss the scope creep rounds they were my favorite

Can't wait to see what themes and games people come up with in the new dual series :)

I'm totally gonna sign up, I love meeting other devs

Cant wait

cool beans, this new format should also be fun at some point you could do a small knockout tournament or one day in the future bring back previous winners and have them duke it out

u have done the best thing yay

Yeah - super idea!!!

I would still do the guest judges tbh.

How long before this 'Duels' format becomes some sort of tournament...

Cool

could you include people of relatively same skill-levels? so you could have some RSJ’s with beginners or experts

Ill dual anyone, Ill take you all on! Fight me in game to game combat!

I liked the 3 round format a lot. It was fun to route for your favourite from the start but I get that people dropping out is a problem. Here's an idea... why not keep 3 rounds but instead of inviting just 4 devs open round one up to 8 with only 3 progressing then if people drop out you'll still be good to go 👍 also in terms of a multi video series you could still do 1 video covering all 3 rounds. I watch that 👍👊

Maybe you could open the applicants to non-english speakers (All around the world there are many people that can communicate in English but not speak it). You'd narrate their parts.

How long are you planning on doing this for? I would love to join but I'm not confident enough in my programming skills to join yet as I only started recently.

tbh i dont like the change to duels, the 3 rounds let you see more of them and let you see how they improve.

Greetings Vimlark, gonna see you later!

I don't want to sound salty, but...when you talk about RSJ being judged by a poll in the RU-vid community section, do you mean you'll actually set up a poll in the RU-vid community section, or will it be more like the poll you mentioned in the art-pack mimic video?

Applied! Hopefully I'll make it but I understand if I don't.

I am very down with the new duels meta, and it should help with the dropping out.

If you want to do a bigger round maybe the winners (that can)will all go against

What about your resurce pack?

That sucks but I get why you have to do it that way.

Would you need to be at least 18 if you want to participate?

RB

Sounds pretty good. With how it was so far, half the videos' runtime was wasted on reintroducing the same people over and over again, which loses audience interest if they have to sit there and watch the same thing over and over instead of focusing on the actual game jam content.

Hope you'll add me, if i'd try to join you someday(the first try ever)

I like the new format, but please update the logo, it looks so outdated

Lol first comment (really like you’re vids tho)

Huh

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