surprising and weird blunder that a TON of devs made this year submitting their games to IGF: marking their game's platform as "steam deck" but not adding any additional platforms, like... "windows"
as a result, these games only get assigned to judges who have steam decks.
it's really easy to fix, you can modify your platforms for a build at any time. But I'm really surprised how many high profile releases made this mistake in particular.
I get IGF's system is kind of opaque so here's a quick summary:
- The Platform field is inclusive - adding more platforms makes the game available to more judges
- The Hardware field is exclusive - adding more required hardware removes judges who don't have that hardware (e.g. a VR headset) from eligibility to judge it
