Introducing the “Feedback Friends” mini-site!
Previously, in Ludum Dare…
In case you missed it, LD36 will be a little bit unusual, in that it won’t feature ratings.
To bring everyone up to date, the reason behind that is that PoV, when announcing his break from running the August LD, has also raised concerns over the ratings system. He recommended not to use it for this event, and following a poll made by Sorceress, we voted in majority to follow his advice.
Now, some of us really wanted to still find a cool incentive for players to play each other’s games. Ludum Dare may be enjoyed for the competition, but getting loads of playtesting and sharing feedback with each other is also a great part of what makes the event special.
So here comes our little experiment:
Click the logo to access the mini-site. Not me, the logo… Ok ok you can click me
The Feedback Friends mini-site
Here’s how it works:
Right after LD36 ends, you’ll be able to use this little thing to browse games and find those who need feedback the most. The more games you comment on, the higher you’ll be featured! The goal, of course, is to make sure everyone gets some comments on their games, and reward the more active commenters with more feedback.
If you’re curious, you can already browse the games from Ludum Dare 35 to get an idea of how it works.
Open beta: MiniLD #69
Starting today, the mini-site will be open for the current MiniLD in order to test things out, gather opinions and make some tweaks.
Please share your suggestions & bug reports in the comments. And if you’re curious, feel free to check the Github repository!
[Update] The Ludum Dare world map
Additional announcement: Will Edwards is looking for contributors (artists/programmers) to upgrade a project he made for LD30.
It featured a nice map of the world, where people could place their entries and find their neighbors. It also encouraged commenting on other games, which is exactly what we’re trying to do. It would be a nice way to complement the Feedback Friends, so if you have some skills & free time, you know what to do!
[ also love how the games appear on cartridges in the search, that’s a really nice touch. ]
I mean of course it’s impressive that you made it in time, but as you know I’m not so impressed of the idea it’s based on.
But it only allows to efficiently see the top 20 or 50 entries in the category. Could we have page numbers at the bottom to browse a bit deeper ?
Nice work on the site, it seems to work very well! I hope to give it a test on the current MiniLD, I’m in it after all.
The only issue is with what vfabien21 said, it loads games really slowly and only shows a few per page.. maybe add another page with less images, stats, etc, that just orders and lists a lot of games with links? when the numbers go higher it’s going to be harder to navigate.
would it be possible to enable search also for the description?
A minor thing to be fixed maybe: If you embed your game but do not provide a link labeled (Web) then the game is not listed with the platform “Web” – which might discourage people from playing it even though they could…
Is there a possibility for you to detect that case?