Please.

As much as I want to see the results already, I feel like I should vote more than I have been able to so far.

Oh Ludum Dare,
Gave me quite the scare,
When I had a look
At the games on there!

So many were good
Much better than mine
A sleepless day-and-a-half–
Did I waste my time?

The voting proceeded
At breakneck pace
Three minutes per game
No time to waste.

Where’s my life gone
Now that the compo is done
Another whole week
Till we find out who’s won!

It seems like a major problem with low-vote-getting games is their lack of availability of a functional windows executable. People who are very skilled in python could help us all out by testing out these less-rated games that I just cannot seem to get running despite much python installing, or helping these people get py2exe going, or maybe we need a ‘how to install python’ guide, because apparently just installing python and pygame is not enough.

This is finals month at many universities, so progress in everything else goes slowly.

Also, I like the large graphic, especially the border.

Personally, I can attest that I’ll be able to review quite a bit more games in the next week, because I’ve been out of town for the past week and was incredibly busy the week before that.

Here is the distribution of 123 games into #vote intervals:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3654/3494253104_bd191a85ae.jpg?v=0

We could give some time for games voted 5-15 times:

Yes.

Yes – my game needs more ratings ;o)!

B4n Back to playing games! ;o)

I think we need to get it over with and move on to the next LD-mini or comp, and make everybody crunch from here until it’s over!

Just as a matter or principle. I’m all for tweaking the voting period, but why not leave it until next time? I’ve never liked it when the structure of an event changes while it’s running. It sucks when you log onto a site one morning expecting to see some results to find that the judges are still screwing around.

And I don’t think it’s going to make much difference. Votes slowed to a relative trickle after the first couple of days and another week won’t make much difference.
(Actually there’d probably be a bit of a spike on Monday morning. A spike of shame.)

There are a ton of great games in here that I would love a chance to play and review still and I am still catching up just trying to review and play the games of those who have played and reviewed mine still.

Yes.

Even in previous compos where there were less entries, I’ve felt like I needed more time to vote (but then I usually try to give *every* game a red hot go … there is no way I’d stick to that policy if I were voting this time).

Voting is good practice for multiple choice questions.

I think it might help some of the less-rated games to catch up.