"It's me — You" and GMTK 2023 review results

Hi, everyone! 

We're pleased to note that GMTK game jam 2023 review stage is already finished and the final rating scores are ready for review! So here it goes:

Surely, that was a really fun and quite challenging event for us,  as a lot of time had passed since we had participated in jam last time. But at the end of it, we've managed 1417/6835 rank in overall score and even reached around top 1000 for creativity, which is fairly good result for that submission.  

We want to give you all the gratitude for sharing your feedback with us on the game's page, submission page and event via email! We appreciate it a lot, as it allows us to make hot fixes for you, expand our vision on what we could do better or in addition and better understand the development focus at next jam entries <3

— Hey, what will happen to "It's me — You"? 

We'll start with a small recap of how jam had finished. Officially, it was planned to finish by 8:00pm EEST. We've managed to publish a 1.0.0 version as a submission at 7:56pm (which is not the thing you'd want to do,  actually) . And then, it appeared that everyone has received email regarding submission time being extended by 1 hour for additional bug-fixes and publishing.

We took this time for core bugs fixing, adjusting level and clearing objectives for player. But.. 

— But what?

After all the polishing done in 1 hour, we couldn't manage to publish an updated build in time :( That's the bad part of the story.  And here comes the great part — we're rolling out this update extended with even more polishing right now! You can check out changelog for it in the next devlog post and checkout an updated game with version 1.0.3 to share your thoughts on it. 

— So, what'll happen to the game? 

As an idea and the details of implementation, it'll take place in our arsenal to play around it next time. And speaking of the game itself on itch.io: we'll keep it alive in the current state after 1.0.3 update. In case if you'll submit us bug reports in comments, we will try to provide a fix to keep the game playable. Maybe, we could make some gameplay improvements that are easy to do and could have great impact on player experience.

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