Good luck to all the participants.

Whatever happens, the community wins! 

Good luck everybody!

Any objections if I put a thread up on Reddit to get more attention for the competition?

Don't know the others, I wanted to enter last year, but I was completely blocked, staring at the screen without ideas...

This year, I posted the games I wanted to make... and someone picked part of my games, making better versions than what I was programming at the time. (4bideen fruit, I'm looking at you  ) The other ideas, I didn't finish them because they didn't get many feedback, and were more prototypes than games.

In the end, this year has amazing games, many of them will become 4k classics as my all time favorite Miners4K.

42 programmers is an impressive number in itself, and even more when you think at its meaning revealed in Douglas Adams' Life, the Universe and Everything !

But what amazes me the most, is the number of games submitted by some participants, and all of them proving that quantity is not always the enemy of quality. So I can count 2 entries for Andy Cook, Mark Bernard, Markus Persson, rdcarvallo and soothsayer, 3 for Kevin Glass, 4 for MÃ¥ns Olson, 6 for SimonH and 8 for zero.one ! ( sorry if I have forgotten anyone or any game... )

I just hope that all of these people are making the fortune of the game industry in their professional activities ( I know for sure for one or two of them... ), otherwise it is really too bad for it !

Now courage for the judges to make all these reviews...

Oof, that's a lot of work for two weeks.

I'm going to make a non-4k game out of what I had done.

For now, I'm making myself available as a backup-judge in the unlikely scenario that one of the judges drops out.

Tonite. I almost have it ready 

We're on Kotaku again. 

http://kotaku.com/5166483/these-67-games-are-all-under-4k-in-size

Awesome. But why is the title "Left 4k Dead: These 67 Games Are All Under 4k In Size"? Not that I mind..

Me too. =D
For some reason J4k is by far my most productive environment. Tight limits, short project spans, and very very interesting technical challenges.

It still bothers me somewhat that such a big part of the competition is just about compression, but I guess that's inevitable.

Keep up the great judging!  Especially as my game is the last on the list!    Personally, I wouldn't mind if the judges got more then 2 weeks to judge, as that works out to be about 5 games to play and review every day!

I have a feeling the judges will need longer time, this is heavy work. I wanted to see how the work progressed before putting down a deadline longer than 2 weeks, but now I realize two weeks are insufficient time. I'll notify the judges this week, no reason to make them think they have longer time just yet

Agreed.

Another suggestion for next year: Once the game is finished, show either the full list or none of the 2009 games on the front page; the effect has been somewhat less prominent this year, but last year, the games that were on the front page on the end of the compo were roughly the most downloaded ones.

I have already changed the front page of the site. I did it within a few days after the contest closed. Now random games from the 2009 contest are displayed. Maybe the last submitted games received slightly more time on the front page, but in any case this does not affect the judging.

It's been 2 weeks =0