Comments on: How to get more ratings in 6 easy steps?

By: καταχωρηση

καταχωρηση — Fri, 04 May 2012 05:19:16 +0000

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By: Raptor85

Raptor85 — Tue, 01 May 2012 14:54:57 +0000

it’s actually ratings/coolness ratio with coolness capped at 100, pretty much same difference though.

By: Jiggawatt

Jiggawatt — Tue, 01 May 2012 11:07:56 +0000

Or just several pages. I’d like to take “least rated” and go to the last page to see the popular entries. I know the LD hosts consciously like to discourage that sort of thing to ensure that only the less rated games get attention, but still.

By: Hazard

Hazard — Tue, 01 May 2012 10:27:15 +0000

You can just try it anyway. A huge percentage of people here aren’t native english speakers. I can’t imagine people hating on you for making errors in your post/comment.

By: Hazard

Hazard — Tue, 01 May 2012 10:23:51 +0000

Just use the default sorting. It automatically gives you those games with the greatest ratings/coolness imbalance.

By: trq

trq — Tue, 01 May 2012 09:52:57 +0000

The reason why I don’t write post mortem and comments is my poor English

By: vigrid

vigrid — Tue, 01 May 2012 09:01:54 +0000

Yes, this system is pretty much OK. It’s missing paging and basic filtering though. Personally I’d like to focus on underdog games made by people who actually rated some other games, and the “least rated” doesn’t let me.

By: vigrid

vigrid — Tue, 01 May 2012 08:59:56 +0000

Totally agree – I also pay attention to the comments (now I know why exactly my game sucked gameplay-wise), but still, I would like to see what was my “place” in other ratings, just to see how well I did. It’s something that I can’t fight.

Great note about the screenshot – I find myself subconsciously avoiding games that don’t have an eye-catching thumbnail, and I’m sure I’ve missed a couple of great titles that way!

By: vigrid

vigrid — Tue, 01 May 2012 08:57:04 +0000

Well, that wasn’t my goal when I wrote this post, but hey – thanks!

By: Jiggawatt

Jiggawatt — Tue, 01 May 2012 08:27:27 +0000

The new system is great – I didn’t have access to a computer for a couple of days, so I couldn’t rate others’ games. Unsurprisingly, I had 3 ratings. On the weekend however, I was able to try out the entries, and I started getting ratings so fast it was difficult to stay in the default top 20 for long.

By: jimmypaulin

jimmypaulin — Tue, 01 May 2012 06:45:18 +0000

As a noob designer I’m much more interested in the comments people leave for me than any final score, so I’m leaving the most thoughtful and constructive comments I can for other in the hope that they will do the same for me and I have to say it seems to be working as I’m getting some really constructive feedback.

With this quantity of games to get through, getting your game on someone’s top-list is going to be a large advantage I would say, as this circumvents any coolness metric anyway. So yeah, to get ratings make a great game. If your game isn’t getting played despite your high coolness perhaps try a fresh screenshot?

By: Shadow

Shadow — Tue, 01 May 2012 06:28:55 +0000

great post!
You just made someone else rate your game ; )

By: Milo

Milo — Tue, 01 May 2012 03:12:09 +0000

You forgot a method (admittedly, it only yields reviews, not ratings):

7. “Win” the Ludum Dare.

By: mooosh

mooosh — Tue, 01 May 2012 01:52:15 +0000

excellent post! I liked your bit about “gaming the coolness system” and would like to add–

*please* do not blaze through people’s games just to up your coolness rank and get more ratings. it’s rude, disrespectful, and (when it comes to leaving comments) WE CAN TELL.

By: MadGnomeGamer

MadGnomeGamer — Tue, 01 May 2012 01:48:12 +0000

I always play a game as long as it holds my interest. Having a modern attention span….:D

Some games that I really like I will play for ages. I found Dave Is In A Fish Tank strangely compulsive, for example.

I’m gonna get that gold medal, and then do my top games list.

By: vigrid

vigrid — Tue, 01 May 2012 00:39:17 +0000

Speaking of caps – it *might* be a fair idea to cap the number of games you can rate per day – let’s say 24. That could probably beat some of the coolness gaming. On the other hand – I had a lot of spare time today, so I decided to delve into rating, and I’m sure would hit that cap today. I don’t have so much time on other days.

Anyway. As a noob, I will stick to what worked for the past 10 years

By: Raptor85

Raptor85 — Tue, 01 May 2012 00:23:45 +0000

coolness only effects your score up until 100, after 100 it doesn’t change your placement on the page anymore and you’re rating only for the sake of rating. So it effectively already is capped (or those of us over 200 reviews…i think 4 of us are that high now….would perpetually be on page 1 of ratings)

By: uberneen

uberneen — Tue, 01 May 2012 00:17:21 +0000

I didn’t mean to insinuate that you were rushing through, or advocating that behavior. I was just adding what I’ve observed in myself and others during the judging period.

You’re probably right about the caps, or whatever mechanism. Every system can be gamed somehow. Let’s see if I can use modern Internet vernacular correctly here: Lamers gonna lame.

By: vigrid

vigrid — Tue, 01 May 2012 00:04:35 +0000

Just to be clear here – I’m not encouraging anyone to rush through ratings. That’s unfair. I give every game a chance to show something to me, even if it’s not of my favorite genre (adventure games are a fine example of this). I try to play the game long enough to find something I can really comment on. If I fail, or the game just fails, I try to leave an encouraging and/or constructive comment.

I’m not sure if coolness caps are the right thing to do – they are a rule, and every additional rule makes a game.

Personally, I play the games for as long as I like, and leave as fair ratings as I can. And I treat the comments as “my own” game design notes. As a noob game developer, I plan to go through them all and learn by extracting my own observations

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