Nothing because they don’t gain anything from adding fake or non participating people to the team. Each name is separate and is placed in as such, if its not your name that’s chosen you lose, end of story. Adding fake people does nothing to your chances. Actually adding fake or non participating people increases your chances to lose, because there are more people in the pool. I’m pretty safe to assume, epic will ask for photo id. I mean they aren’t just going to send it to the first person who emails them. Honestly if someone is going to go through identity theft for this game jam, there are so much bigger problems in our community.
The original idea isnt fair at all… A single person has so much more of a than 5 together. This is the fundamental problem. The nvidia prizes are not suitable for teams, nor does it make any sense to choose an entire team for a single item, just choose a single person from the entire group of devs, end of story. There is no reason to select by teams out of the hat nor does it make logical sense.
All makers of compliant games get placed into a hat and they are randomly selected, there is no way to cheat this. Everyone has equal chances. However if they choose based on teams in a hat, you have much better chances going in lone wolf for nvidias prize.
I really don’t understand what is so hard to understand or why people even care, its not even that massive of a change. It just stops people from the incentive to split there team to individuals and make a barely compliant game just for the nvidia prize entry.(its not hard at all to create a compliant game the rules facilitate fun, they don’t make it hard for people to participate. remember there is an entire week, idk about you but many people can do allot in just 2 days let alone 7) Sure it reduces your chances but now has the same .
Edit I feel like a broken record. Enjoy your day.
To be honest i wonder if they should have done what other Jams do, don’t announce prizes until after the comp. That way fair or not its done and over.