My son and I made a silly game and uploaded it 4 days ago. Its had 10 people play to completion to get on the leaderboard (which is fairly time consuming) and had one comment with 5 stars.

For people that have had stuff accepted/bammed before, is there any way to read through the lines and see what people thought? The score in the judged page doesn't seem to have moved. Is there anywhere else to look for a metric? plays/playtime etc? I realize people might think it sucks, or dislike/not get the humor, or just not care enough to click or some combination. That's all cool. I was just wondering for those who have watched a game slowly drift to the bottom... what did you take from it? Anything other than "not good enough?"

cheers,

It looks like your game is out of the judgement phase, so the score and number of people who voted or saw the game are the only things you have. NG doesn't do too much with metrics by default, but you can add stuff like that to your game (with care to GDPR I guess) to see how long, how many people chose an option, etc. I did that on a game a while ago, but it was more like I looked at the results and said "cool" and that was it. I'd only add it if you truly stand to benefit from the results, and not if it's only a passing curiosity.

My more recent games have been explorations into workflows for me, to find something that feels good. That has nothing to do with the score but still benefits me in a meaningful way.

Thanks for the reply. I really like your perspective on it. We were really just toying around with making a game, but I still needed the reminder not to obsess over the passing curiosities. Cheers!