Why would you get a virtual trophy for doing nothing?
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Yeah, of course. However, I guarantee you there are way more people taking finals around this time compared to the middle of summer.
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Thanks to those who participated in the Game Quest Challenge, we understand it was a long ride and that this challenge was especially difficult due to its short time to work on each Mini-challenge and the Main challenge. We have heard your feedback, and we want to be as fair and understanding as possible, our objective is for everyone to always have fun and to promote a healthy evolution of your developer skills.
For this reason, we would like to give the opportunity of extending the Main Challenge and allow those developers that participated to improve and polish their games, and those that were not able to participate, will have a second chance to showcase their work. In this case, all the developers who completed at least two mini challenges will be allowed to participate and present a full game that complies with the original rules. Game Quest Challenge 2021 - Rules & Guidelines
The extension for the deadline of the challenge will begin Friday, April 30 at 11 AM PDT and end Friday, May 7 at 11 AM PDT, a full week to participate and create the game that you envisioned!
Please submit your updated game here: https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/6317434/Game-Quest-Main-Challenge-Extension
Please don’t hesitate to reach out to @Moxyll or @DevEngagementTeam if you have any concerns or questions.
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Thank you so much! I have so many major tests that it’s really hard to devote time on Mondays and perhaps this is exactly what my team needs for encouragement.
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I feel a little odd about this. I thought this was meant to be a gamejam for developers push their limits with the limited 50 hours given to create the best work they can.
With the extension this has now turned into a 218 Hour jam. Considering the whole event’s timeline was planned out weeks ahead, it feels a little unfair for those who did participate already as they might have made themselves other plans after this event and now have to adjust possibly to an additional 168 hours that new participants can put into their submissions.
Oh well I’ll go use this additional time to refine my submission 
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Does this mean the date for when the winners will be announced will be delayed?
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This completely depends on how many submissions we receive; however, we will try and keep the timeline as consistent as possible. It will be 3-4 weeks after the new closing date, which is Friday, May 7, 2021. Apologies for any confusion!
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Am I being stupid or is there a chance to join if you didn’t do the mini challenges or like me have just found out about them. Any help is appreciated. Sorry if I am being stupid.
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Yeah, you have to have participated in two Mini Quests prior to this.
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They all ended weeks ago. Please read the Game Quest posts thoroughly before questioning.
So no, you can’t do them anymore.
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What a bummer! My team only saw this 4 days after it’s been announced.
We thought we had a good submission for a 2-day game jam. Now we are 4 days behind some of the other teams. This might cost us (and other teams) our place in the competition.
Why was this crucial update not listed on the original updates thread?
The game quest being separated into 3 different threads made it difficult to follow information.
On top of that, this crucial announcement is hidden under dozens of replies.
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Hi all! As a friendly reminder, there is one hour left until submissions close! Good luck, and keep up the good work!
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How lenient are we on late bug fixes? Just found a bug in our game, although it isn’t anything game breaking.
I think its quite strict since they mentioned even changing the description might lead to disqualification. I found bunch of bugs too 
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Gotcha. I’ll just have to upload a separate game for the “best” experience.
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Hi all, quick update regarding your feedback regarding difficulty when it comes to being updated on our Challenges.
We now have a DevForum group specifically for Game Jam/Challenge notifications and updates! We will be using this in all future challenges in order to notify members of the community who are interested in participating in these challenges. @Game-Jammers
You can join this group here!
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YOO!
Happy to see these community game jams become larger and larger, these are super fun! Keep it going DevEngagement!
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