And with that, the first 48-Hour Hack Jam has ended!
Who will win this hack jam?
We have two entrants: Sme and Darrman. In order to help me with deciding the winner I have a small jury with me. Whichever of the two hacks gets more votes wins.
While I would have loved to leave it up to a community vote, I think the amount of downloads tells me that would go nowhere.
What now?
With a staggeringly low participation rate of just two users, I would still consider this contest a success. I can take something away from this and make sure more people want to contribute to future jams. And yes, there will be more. I will probably change the way the format works so it looks less challenging for entrants.
Either way I thank everyone who contributed and everyone who has helped me with getting this off the ground.
Don’t feel too bad about the low number of entries. The first installment of any event of this sort is going to have a low turnout, and this goes doubly so if you don’t have any personal brand name power.
To give some examples:
Ragefest 1, hosted by Markyjoe, at the time one of the biggest names in the community, got… six entries.
MAFC1, hosted by Ghast, a major FE fangame tuber, got… seven entries.
There are other examples I could pull up, but the big takeaway here is that brand power is way more important than operational mistakes. Keep at it!
