This week included the end of the New Years Incremental Game Jam. This has been an incredibly successful jam, with a ton of entries! There was also a bonus theme banning any text or numbers in the game, which means that many of these entries really challenge our assumptions of what it means to be an incremental game - how do numbers go up when there are no numbers? In the name of fairness, I'm not featuring any game jam games, because I do not want to affect the results in any way. So click the link above to see a list of all the entries and vote on them!
In other big news, the survey results are out! This was a lot of effort (hopefully I didn't yap too much) and I'm really happy with the results. I've added my own analysis and commentary after the results of each question, so I don't have much to say here apart from: Go check it out!
Also: going forward, itch games that have self disclosed as having used gen AI will more consistently have that displayed here. I didn't realize itch had self disclosures, because it doesn't appear as an actual tag on the game, but when browsing the list of games you can tell it to filter for (or filter out) AI generated games by adding /tag-ai-generated or /tag-no-ai respectively. So before I was relying on the description of the game explicitly mentioning the use of AI (because I don't like listing gen AI when it wasn't disclosed, even if I'm very confident), but now any games that have self disclosed will be marked.