Also getting the Failed to Load Mono. I don't know unity but according to this: https://forum.unity.com/threads/failed-to-load-mono.540209/ it might have something to do with having the wrong DLL packaged with your game? Best luck resolving the issue. I'll be back tomorrow to see if you've got it.
@voidsay pretty sure thats "Ratings Given" Which would be the games this creator has scored, not the score he is receiving. Could be wrong though tbh lol
@william-corrin I know that, I am just deeply disturbed that @lakshyaisagod has played games for more than a workday at 5 minutes (or less) a pop, while also fixing his upload blunder, commenting and presumably working on his game up until the last moments of the jam. His veins must hold pure caffeine or something.
@lakshyaisagod you are doing something wrong. LD is a chilled jam (after the game making of course) and you seem to be rushing so hard you hardly even see the games that you rate. I am unsure about the comments you write below those games, but I am positive that they are not very insightful.
You have been rating over 140 games at 2.4 per minute for the last 5 hours (that is the time that I determined from metadata) and robbing the jammers blind with fake comments. Even if I was to give you the benefit of the doubt, you'd still be rating a game in 2 minutes and 30 seconds on average. That is not normal and your ratings skew the results unfairly.
This is unsportsmanlike behavior and I am asking you to stop at once!
Nice work ! Tough the character has soooo slippy controls, and also, why your healtbar goes down when you right-click ? Despite those things, that a pretty fun game !
Well... My fist impression of this game was: 90 ratings given and 0 received? (That was a couple hours back when I only woke up and started rating other games) This looks fishy...
But then I noticed that comments and figured out that that the first uploads of the game were not playable, so probably this is the reason of low ratings received count. Still the high number of rating given looks hella sus.
Anyway to the game merits on their own: - The gameplay loop is boring. Basically all you do is fall down. You have too little control over your descend to catch any score points or avoid obstactes intentionally, so its all mostly down to luck. On top of this, the obstacles you are supposed to avoid actually do nothing other than stop your fall.
- As mentioned in the comment above - the fact that your character starts falling down and looking sidewise does little to help.
- Graphics look nice, but the textures look kind of too high quality for something that was created during the compo. I have no qualms agains using pre-existing assets in the game, but then it should be jam category, not compo.
unfortunately, much shorter than I expected. obstacles started becoming messy, maybe scale down and space them out a bit? Would also be cool to hear some feedback upon collecting the coin. All in all, good job on getting it done on time!
I just came here to ask: why did you even try to cheat @lakshyaisagod? This is a contest without even a price, cmon.
Other thing is that I wanted to try out despite this, but you even messed up your game's page. You claim your game supports OSX, but downloading the zip I realized it's for win and linux only.
Well how can i say, the game fells like, unnecessary ? I actually didn't do anything and i won the game, like i just pressed the buttons and than win, without doing anything...
@lakshyaisagod please stop cheating! You leave fake reviews. I thought maybe you were being nice when you rated my game 5/5, but then I checked itch.io and I still had no downloads. Please either A.) Play my game and leave feedback, and change your review or B.) remove it.
I feel like I shouldn't be super negative, but this was not really worth the wait for me. It was a game. It worked, once I could run it.
I felt really bad for you when this game first popped up and it wasn't working right, because I think we have all run into bugs and problems.
But, the evidence of you trying to cheat the system in the comments here evaporated my sympathy. Hope you learn from this experience, and do better in the future.
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GarethTheDestro26 Apr 2021, 20:04
Super disappointed you're trying to cheat the jam ratings.
@plazyqwerty already reported, this is the answer from the creator of LD:
"" Well they're in for a surprise. 😉As of a few events ago, "coolness" is now mostly based on the quality of the feedback you leave on other people's games. For best effect, leaving thoughtful feedback on 3-5 games should have more impact than botting 100+ ratings. We also expect a few stray ratings and statistically remove 3 ratings from each game and average what remains to get scores. End of the day, all this effort of theirs is mostly wasted. When you see someone else leaving good quality feedback on your games or others, give them a like. This ensures the abuse goes unrewarded. I hope that makes sense.Regards, ""
I advise other people to not even try the game, there could be a malware since it's a fresh account and has a generic username, a malware could be there reason of "cheating" in an event like this.
If he wanted "exposure", it didn't work out well, pitiful.
Dear everyone, I am extremely sorry for what I have done.This was my first Game Jam, I have just started learning GameDev in 2 Months.Hence, my amateur coding and design.I should have gone for the Jam, but I decided to Go for the compo and push myself.I did not know about all the rules of the compo.It is my mistake.I owe an apology to the Community.It was unsportmanship for me to cheat.I did not expect the game to get so many ratings.
With this I will now not give any feedback to any other game in this Jam.I will try to change all the 150 Games I rated , either write 'Sorry' or actually play the game and give constructive feedback.
I will not force you to play my game.My game does not deserve this many ratings.But I can confirm there are no hacks or malware in the game.That is a misconception.
From the Next GameJam,I will resolve my ways and do it correctly.This is the first and last time I will cheat.Hoping you can pardon my amateurish.
I think you need to work out the purpose of the game. An infinite falling game is okay, but you don't have a real reason to fall. You could add like a Character that prompts the user the background or story.
@lakshyaisagod Thanks for pledging to do better. :thumbsup:
I went ahead and changed your copy+paste comments to a "TODO". Feel free to edit and replace with actual reviews of games. Folks would greatly appreciate it. I also reset your Karma just to be fair.
Some good news: I'm working on an algorithm tweak that should stop this from working in the future.
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Still can't play it :(
Said UnityPlayer.dll was nor found
Please explain yourself:
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/hole-explorer
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/deirdre-pedro
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/madman-the-crazy-scientist
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/mind-hunter
You have been rating over 140 games at 2.4 per minute for the last 5 hours (that is the time that I determined from metadata) and robbing the jammers blind with fake comments.
Even if I was to give you the benefit of the doubt, you'd still be rating a game in 2 minutes and 30 seconds on average. That is not normal and your ratings skew the results unfairly.
This is unsportsmanlike behavior and I am asking you to stop at once!
Go to https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/my/grades and work down the list.
Either play the game and leave a legit comment and rating or apologize and retract the rating.
I will check up on you. And I check very thoroughly, just ask @tolmera.
Despite those things, that a pretty fun game !
But then I noticed that comments and figured out that that the first uploads of the game were not playable, so probably this is the reason of low ratings received count. Still the high number of rating given looks hella sus.
Anyway to the game merits on their own:
- The gameplay loop is boring. Basically all you do is fall down. You have too little control over your descend to catch any score points or avoid obstactes intentionally, so its all mostly down to luck. On top of this, the obstacles you are supposed to avoid actually do nothing other than stop your fall.
- As mentioned in the comment above - the fact that your character starts falling down and looking sidewise does little to help.
- Graphics look nice, but the textures look kind of too high quality for something that was created during the compo. I have no qualms agains using pre-existing assets in the game, but then it should be jam category, not compo.
- Sound is nice.
The controls are a bit too floaty for me though.
Very enjoyable nevertheless.
Other thing is that I wanted to try out despite this, but you even messed up your game's page. You claim your game supports OSX, but downloading the zip I realized it's for win and linux only.
I gave up here.
I felt really bad for you when this game first popped up and it wasn't working right, because I think we have all run into bugs and problems.
But, the evidence of you trying to cheat the system in the comments here evaporated my sympathy. Hope you learn from this experience, and do better in the future.
""
Well they're in for a surprise. 😉As of a few events ago, "coolness" is now mostly based on the quality of the feedback you leave on other people's games. For best effect, leaving thoughtful feedback on 3-5 games should have more impact than botting 100+ ratings. We also expect a few stray ratings and statistically remove 3 ratings from each game and average what remains to get scores. End of the day, all this effort of theirs is mostly wasted. When you see someone else leaving good quality feedback on your games or others, give them a like. This ensures the abuse goes unrewarded. I hope that makes sense.Regards,
""
I advise other people to not even try the game, there could be a malware since it's a fresh account and has a generic username, a malware could be there reason of "cheating" in an event like this.
If he wanted "exposure", it didn't work out well, pitiful.
I am extremely sorry for what I have done.This was my first Game Jam, I have just started learning GameDev in 2 Months.Hence, my amateur coding and design.I should have gone for the Jam, but I decided to Go for the compo and push myself.I did not know about all the rules of the compo.It is my mistake.I owe an apology to the Community.It was unsportmanship for me to cheat.I did not expect the game to get so many ratings.
With this I will now not give any feedback to any other game in this Jam.I will try to change all the 150 Games I rated , either write 'Sorry' or actually play the game and give constructive feedback.
I will not force you to play my game.My game does not deserve this many ratings.But I can confirm there are no hacks or malware in the game.That is a misconception.
From the Next GameJam,I will resolve my ways and do it correctly.This is the first and last time I will cheat.Hoping you can pardon my amateurish.
Taging the People who have commented on my behavior:
@cavedens @axeltherabbit @pohko @swordfish @plazyqwerty @wall-jump-games @hotpaw @bw-devel @mudlee @vegmuffin @voidsay
Glowing regards,
Lakshya
I went ahead and changed your copy+paste comments to a "TODO". Feel free to edit and replace with actual reviews of games. Folks would greatly appreciate it. I also reset your Karma just to be fair.
Some good news: I'm working on an algorithm tweak that should stop this from working in the future.