The Tournament is over! 3 0

After a full month of competition, the 1st AKJ Tournament is finally closed. Congratulations to @CMLSC for the well-deserved win! Nice job as well to @dollarone and @toasty who managed to get in the podium, and to all of the participants.

If you liked the event, know that we intend to make it a regular thing, the next occurrence being planned for the month of September. Some questions for next time:

What do you think of the number of games? Was 8 a good number or would you have preferred less? More?
Should we have prizes next time? (If so, it would be probably Steam games and/or Alakajam! goodies)
Did you mind the games being mostly for Windows only?

Any other thought or suggestion is welcome.

As for the next event… The 3rd Alakajam is finally approaching! It will be hosted in th 22-24th June week-end, which means the detailed schedule will be published next Monday. See you then :)

Comments (3)

sorceress • 6 years ago •

I would prefer no more than 8 games, but no less than 4.
Prizes are not desired.
Windows only didn't matter to me.
30 days felt ok.

toasty • 6 years ago •

I think the tournament has been a valuable experience (and a whole lot of fun!): we've likely played these jam games much more than we would otherwise have, and maybe picked up some good feedback or learned a bit about game design along the way.

As for the questions:

I'd like to experiment with slightly fewer games, say 5, to make them slightly more competitive. I agree with sorceress, though: 4 is a good minimum.
Prizes might be good, though aren't essential, and would have to be carefully selected.
If possible I'd like to see at least a majority of the games available for more platforms. Personally it doesn't affect me so much but itt seems a little unfair to have a tournament where some people are disqualified from certain games based on their OS.
A whole month felt a little long to me. There seemed to be a lull in the middle of the competition which I wouldn't expect with, say, a week- or two week-long tournament.

dollarone • 6 years ago •

Congrats @CMLSC !

8 games was good, I think up to 10 would be ok. I think most of the games were a good fit for a tournament, although I think we should have picked a single level from Lollipop Ninja. I liked that there were a lot of different games.

Prizes - I don't really mind - only potential issue is that people might take it more seriously and cheat to win.

As for the time, a month is in theory good for a lot of people to join the tournament - but in practice most people played in the first and/or last week, so I think a week or two would have worked as well.