Historically, voting polls (via favorites) would close one week after the submission deadline, so I'm assuming I'll be tallying the favorites as of the end of the day Sunday the 22nd?
@Sanglorian: I saw your submission even before ElizaWy linked to it. You're in the contest. No takebacks! :P
A NOTE ON TAGS: The tags on OGA don't really link to twitter. Using hashmarks on tags actually makes them more difficult to find. Searching for Challenge and Reborn will exclude results tagged #Challenge and #Reborn. I'm checking both, so it's all good. Just FYI.
Find your favorite submission and slam that Favorite button, everyone! If you like more than one, Favorite them both... or all... Favorite all the ones you like! :)
I can certainly award medals in accordance with whatever game jam rules you come up with. I doubt there would be an issue with OGA being a "co-host" either, though it would be helpful to see the whole plan before giving an enthusiastic "yes, lets do this!"
By whole plan, I mean what are the rules for winning? what art can be used? Is the code required to be open source? how do contestants submit their game? How are the submissions judged and by whom? The discussion is already going in the right direction, but the answers still need to be ironed out. I don't think the answer to any of those questions would prevent me personally from being on board with this. It's more about making sure nothing is being promised on behalf of OGA that can't really be delivered... like prizes.
I think farrer's mention of the LPC is a good model to imitate here, but I'm not familiar with the pitfalls that may have run into. I wasn't around when all that was going down. "...was too much work for those envolved in judgement, money raise/sponsoring, etc..." tell me more about that.
Copying text from other applications can change the encoding. The forum has trouble with a lot of extended ANSI symbols, many if which look identical to UTF8 symbols (like left quotation marks looking like neutral quotation marks) if the text you're pasting contains those encodings it will give you the error above. Sometimes it helps to click "disable rich text" before clicking save.
I've been deleting spam (and deleting the spammer's account) and not just unpublishing it. However, I'm seeing a lot of spam being unpublished by another admin and the spammer's account is left undeleted and unblocked. Should I not be deleting spam or spam accounts?
There is no feasible way to have a separate forum and submission user. Mold and others are correct; the profile is blocked with the user, though the content was specifically set to stay in place instead of being deleted.
Even if that were not the case, his hateful slurs, threats of violence (threats of litigation is not an issue, but violence is), politics, and religious content were not relegated to just the forum. His continued submitting was just more of the same. I'm all for free speech, but this is more like someone spray painting a building with graffiti, then shouting "oppression!" when they're arrested for it. Even if what was said should be protected, the method used is not allowed. Not that it matters, because there is no way to half-ban someone.
@Chaosesqueteam: My legal team has reviewed your offer and given it great consideration. They have advised me the safest course of action is to ban you for repeatedly breaking the rules, ignoring warnings, and disregarding requests for corrective action. I'm being told this will minimize my liability in the upcoming legal apocalypse that is inevitably descending upon my head. After weeks of lost sleep and much wringing of hands, I have decided to take their advice.
Historically, voting polls (via favorites) would close one week after the submission deadline, so I'm assuming I'll be tallying the favorites as of the end of the day Sunday the 22nd?
@Sanglorian: I saw your submission even before ElizaWy linked to it. You're in the contest. No takebacks! :P
A NOTE ON TAGS: The tags on OGA don't really link to twitter. Using hashmarks on tags actually makes them more difficult to find. Searching for Challenge and Reborn will exclude results tagged #Challenge and #Reborn. I'm checking both, so it's all good. Just FYI.
Find your favorite submission and slam that Favorite button, everyone! If you like more than one, Favorite them both... or all... Favorite all the ones you like! :)
Keep me posted.
I can certainly award medals in accordance with whatever game jam rules you come up with. I doubt there would be an issue with OGA being a "co-host" either, though it would be helpful to see the whole plan before giving an enthusiastic "yes, lets do this!"
By whole plan, I mean what are the rules for winning? what art can be used? Is the code required to be open source? how do contestants submit their game? How are the submissions judged and by whom? The discussion is already going in the right direction, but the answers still need to be ironed out. I don't think the answer to any of those questions would prevent me personally from being on board with this. It's more about making sure nothing is being promised on behalf of OGA that can't really be delivered... like prizes.
I think farrer's mention of the LPC is a good model to imitate here, but I'm not familiar with the pitfalls that may have run into. I wasn't around when all that was going down. "...was too much work for those envolved in judgement, money raise/sponsoring, etc..." tell me more about that.
We classify it as a bug as well. It just hasn't been resolved yet.
Copying text from other applications can change the encoding. The forum has trouble with a lot of extended ANSI symbols, many if which look identical to UTF8 symbols (like left quotation marks looking like neutral quotation marks) if the text you're pasting contains those encodings it will give you the error above. Sometimes it helps to click "disable rich text" before clicking save.
I've been deleting spam (and deleting the spammer's account) and not just unpublishing it. However, I'm seeing a lot of spam being unpublished by another admin and the spammer's account is left undeleted and unblocked. Should I not be deleting spam or spam accounts?
The post doesn't, but replies to it (and any other post in this forum) do: http://opengameart.org/user/3656/comments
There is no feasible way to have a separate forum and submission user. Mold and others are correct; the profile is blocked with the user, though the content was specifically set to stay in place instead of being deleted.
Even if that were not the case, his hateful slurs, threats of violence (threats of litigation is not an issue, but violence is), politics, and religious content were not relegated to just the forum. His continued submitting was just more of the same. I'm all for free speech, but this is more like someone spray painting a building with graffiti, then shouting "oppression!" when they're arrested for it. Even if what was said should be protected, the method used is not allowed. Not that it matters, because there is no way to half-ban someone.
Ooh, nice! and the superpowers game dev kit is open source and looks easy to use, too!
@Chaosesqueteam: My legal team has reviewed your offer and given it great consideration. They have advised me the safest course of action is to ban you for repeatedly breaking the rules, ignoring warnings, and disregarding requests for corrective action. I'm being told this will minimize my liability in the upcoming legal apocalypse that is inevitably descending upon my head. After weeks of lost sleep and much wringing of hands, I have decided to take their advice.
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