@capbros: It specifically said 'Pay not attention to this'!
J/K. I'm listening to the concerns about announcement visibility, and I think this feature might help. :) (see attached image)
I can also sticky a forum topic as suggested above. Just let me know which topic is to be the official game jam/art challenge thread and tell me when it's ready.
Re: "policy changes", I assume this is a reference to GDPR? No OGA policies have changed recently.
Personally, I think however people want to make the game is fine. I made my entry from scratch, but others used RPGMaker and other tools. I was fine with that, but I think the RPGMaker entries received a lower score than they could have gotten just because we've all seen it before. It's harder to make a game that stands out as unique the more you rely on tools that narrow the scope like that. I think that's fine, too. Tools like that have the advantage of saving a lot of effort, but they also come with drawbacks, and participants have to accept those when choosing their tools.
I really liked last year's requiring the inclusion of some existing OGA assets. I think it promotes the spirit of what this community stands for without hindering the creativity of the game jam participants. After all, if you don't find any assets on OGA that you could use in your game, you're still allowed to make your own assets, share them to OGA, and then use them in your game as an 'existing OGA asset'. It still encourages the sharing of assets. :)
I like the idea of a more open theme for the art challenge assets bonus. Either "bonus points for using assets from any of the narrow-themed art challenges" or "bonus points for using assets from one open-themed art challenge" as capbros suggests... (or both?).
Just one opinion, though. I can see how such an open-ended game jam may lack focus.
P.S. Looking into reviving the OGA social media accounts to help promote this sort of thing. (twitter, facebook, deviantart, etc.) No promises, though. :/
Considering mollom is out of service, i'm guessing the updated policy would be something like:
"We don't share information. We don't collect information. We don't exist."
However, that is mollom's policy, not OGA's. If OGA has a publicly facing privacy policy, I don't know where it is. I'm not the controller. I'll work on making it visible, but in the meantime, to the best of my knowledge, this policy is accurate. We don't advertise or have any customer "orders", but our users sometimes do, so that terminology is left in. Again, this is a work in progress by someone who is not a data controller, so bear with me. :)
Sounds good to me. A few hundred accounts from this won't even slow me down. Seriously, I'll be able to remove illegitimate duplicates before they can even send you the PM :)
P.S. I'm sure some of you punks out there will take this as a challenge. I'm sure you'll be able to game the system if you put your mind to it, but please don't.
Good point, capbros. It's actually pretty obvious from my perspective when duplicate accounts are created, so I don't even think it's going to be an issue.
No, everyone can post, approved or not. but some things are restricted on unapproved accounts, like links to external sites. Let me check if PMs still work for unapproved accounts. If not, isn't that exactly what we want?
I'm glad you didn't notice having to wait. It means I'm approving accounts quickly enough. :)
You aren't required to distribute it, but if you do distribute it in any form: on a website, in a tabletop game, over the phone (how?!), etc... it has to be licensed CC-BY-SA and given attribution.
@capbros: It specifically said 'Pay not attention to this'!
J/K. I'm listening to the concerns about announcement visibility, and I think this feature might help. :) (see attached image)
I can also sticky a forum topic as suggested above. Just let me know which topic is to be the official game jam/art challenge thread and tell me when it's ready.
Re: "policy changes", I assume this is a reference to GDPR? No OGA policies have changed recently.
Personally, I think however people want to make the game is fine. I made my entry from scratch, but others used RPGMaker and other tools. I was fine with that, but I think the RPGMaker entries received a lower score than they could have gotten just because we've all seen it before. It's harder to make a game that stands out as unique the more you rely on tools that narrow the scope like that. I think that's fine, too. Tools like that have the advantage of saving a lot of effort, but they also come with drawbacks, and participants have to accept those when choosing their tools.
I really liked last year's requiring the inclusion of some existing OGA assets. I think it promotes the spirit of what this community stands for without hindering the creativity of the game jam participants. After all, if you don't find any assets on OGA that you could use in your game, you're still allowed to make your own assets, share them to OGA, and then use them in your game as an 'existing OGA asset'. It still encourages the sharing of assets. :)
I like the idea of a more open theme for the art challenge assets bonus. Either "bonus points for using assets from any of the narrow-themed art challenges" or "bonus points for using assets from one open-themed art challenge" as capbros suggests... (or both?).
Just one opinion, though. I can see how such an open-ended game jam may lack focus.
P.S. Looking into reviving the OGA social media accounts to help promote this sort of thing. (twitter, facebook, deviantart, etc.) No promises, though. :/
Considering mollom is out of service, i'm guessing the updated policy would be something like:
However, that is mollom's policy, not OGA's. If OGA has a publicly facing privacy policy, I don't know where it is. I'm not the controller. I'll work on making it visible, but in the meantime, to the best of my knowledge, this policy is accurate. We don't advertise or have any customer "orders", but our users sometimes do, so that terminology is left in. Again, this is a work in progress by someone who is not a data controller, so bear with me. :)
Sorry, Danimal. My nuking of spammers has no mercy for comment context. Same for Dannorder. :P
Sounds good to me. A few hundred accounts from this won't even slow me down. Seriously, I'll be able to remove illegitimate duplicates before they can even send you the PM :)
P.S. I'm sure some of you punks out there will take this as a challenge. I'm sure you'll be able to game the system if you put your mind to it, but please don't.
Good point, capbros. It's actually pretty obvious from my perspective when duplicate accounts are created, so I don't even think it's going to be an issue.
No, everyone can post, approved or not. but some things are restricted on unapproved accounts, like links to external sites. Let me check if PMs still work for unapproved accounts. If not, isn't that exactly what we want?
I'm glad you didn't notice having to wait. It means I'm approving accounts quickly enough. :)
This is a picture of my profile page; unapproved
how about "only approved accounts"? Accounts with no community participation are never approved.
You guys make me laugh. :D
Choose.
You aren't required to distribute it, but if you do distribute it in any form: on a website, in a tabletop game, over the phone (how?!), etc... it has to be licensed CC-BY-SA and given attribution.
Ah, I see them. Thanks. I'll investigate.
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