Website Status Update (NEW: Teams, Image Uploading)

Okay! As you may have noticed, people are posting now. :smile:

I quietly enabled everything just to see what happened. And it looks like, @yukonw won.

https://twitter.com/mikekasprzak/status/855521331944857600

Nicely done. :wink:

I posted a teaser video earlier to show how things worked:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x4B07TgXOM

Here's a few more things I didn't cover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaAga8Bx72I

Apologies for the very rushed video. :wink:

Here's how you add Team Members.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wusBykoWYs

Things you should do:

  • Visit your Team Member's user pages, and follow them. Once you've mutually followed each other you are friends. This is how you make teams.
  • Join the event
    • Adding team members is coming. For solo (compo), just don't add any team members :wink:
  • Post an "I'm in" post
  • Add Team Members! NEW
  • Upload Images in posts NEW

Things that are coming:

  • ~~The button that lets you add team members to your game (find it in your user profile)~~
    • ~~I wanted to make sure general posting was working well, so I deployed early~~
  • ~~Image Uploading~~
    • ~~I know how much you guys want this! Me too!~~
  • Adding screenshots to you game
  • Adding other metadata to your game
    • Download links, Source Code, a YouTube video
    • Embeds wont likely make it in for this event
  • Publishing your game (typically it's disabled until the event starts)
    • You pick which event you're publishing the game to at the end (Compo or Jam)
  • Uploading your avatar

Yes we will be doing judging, but judging may start at the end of the Jam instead of the end of the Compo. I'll have a better idea of when judging will begin as the weekend unfolds.

Oh, before I forget:

HUGE shoutout to @zwrawr and @noojuno

Those two have been amazing! Helping me with some key fixed and features over the past few days especially. It's thanks to them sharing the work I was able to get much of the site ready in time. :heart:

I'll be tweaking this post as I finish things, and I remember them. Ha.