Mech Jam IV results

MechJam IV is officially over and the results are in…

STRANDED came 10th place overall out of 131 games and 7th for visuals!

Honestly, for my first-ever game jam and released game, I'm super grateful for these results. Thanks so much to everyone who supported, voted, or gave feedback about the game. (particularly the people who noticed the errors and typos that I didn’t! 😬)

I will probably write a more in-depth post-mortem about my experience with the game at some point, but the mech jam finished just as I got accepted for a new house, so I’m going to be pretty busy for at least the next 4 weeks or so. But I just wanted to write something to say thank you to everyone. Particularly Dungeon who absolutely smashed hosting the jam- which from what I’ve seen, is an absolute mammoth of a task- so well done dude!

I also wanted to briefly touch on the feedback everyone gave; Sound was the vast majority of what was mentioned, which is totally fair seeing as there is absolutely none! I poured all my time into the choices, writing, and visuals. Mainly because writing is my biggest strength and sound, at least in my experience, is quite a faff in Twine. Or at least not as flexible as other game-making tools and engines. However, it is definitely something I’m planning on adding in an update. So I’m going to look into that once things have settled down.

Once again, thanks so much, and well done to everyone who took part! The community on Itch and Discord are awesome. I played as many games as I could and was blown away by some of them. The winners are more than justified!

~ Jon