[IMPORTANT!] Rebooting the ratings phase 4 5

11th Alakajam data wipe

In case you missed it on Wednesday, the Alakajam server has been involved in an actual fire, impacting a lot of servers from French company OVH. The company has confirmed to us today that the server will not be recoverable. The version of the website you are currently browsing has been restored from a backup dating back to February 20th. That is, one week before the jam.

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If you created your Alakajam user account after February 20th, your whole account, game submission, ratings and blog posts are unfortunately lost(*). If your account has been created before that date, some data (game submission, posts, comments) may have been already restored.
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We're sorry about the troubles, and wish we anticipated this kind of disaster scenario better. At least know that the new server is already subject to a weekly offsite backup… Of course, everyone can still get back on board :)

(*) All blog posts are available in the Google Cache, as well as a majority of game pages. You can access a handy archive dumping all found pages here.

Bonus round for submissions & ratings

As an entrant to the 11th Alakajam, you are invited to:

• Recreate your user account if needed ;
• Resubmit your game (unless you still see it in your account, which means we could recover it from the Google cache - except some details like high score settings) ;
• Re-cast the ratings of the games you have already played ;
• And of course continue rating more games and exchanging feedback at will, until the end of the ratings phase.

To give everyone a better chance to get ratings again, and a ranking at the end of the jam, we have made the following changes:

• The end of the ratings phase has been extended to Sunday March 21st ;
• Game submissions will remain open until then ;
• The minimum number of ratings has been lowered a bit ;
• Casting ratings has been open to everyone, not only jam entrants.

Happy playing!