06-30-2023, 08:54 PM
Player Games
I'm not sure about how I want to organize player games from a like a "My Games" type of perspective yet. But this category will have several sub templates.
Player Game Directory
This will be a section in the "Games" area where players can browse player created games. Ideally a category landing page with a ribbon of maybe contest winners or player nominated spotlights. Could also have a randomizer of all games. Could have newest made. Etc.
Player Game Forums? I don't love the idea, because it requires more moderation work on my end to keep up with dead games, but if I don't make them forums then I can't assign moderators to the games, which would limit their ability to control their games and defeat the point.
- Game must have at least 10 active (10+ posts) or completed threads in the game area to qualify for forums.
- Game must have at least 5 individual players signed on to participate to qualify
- Game must be ready to start at time of application. Game makers will have one week max to get setup. Games not setup in time will be removed and all requirements are doubled. (If you have 5 people signed up and have done 10 threads already, you should have had plenty of time to get all of the details in order before applying for a forum, and it will all need to be approved before the forums are created anyway.)
- See if we can make it so any changes to the approved game info must be approved by a staff member before it can go live
- Game owner must commit to weekly login minimum. Game owners offline for 3 weeks will forfeit game ownership to next in line mod. If no mod exists, the players will be allowed to vote for a replacement or disperse the game. Game owner will be banned from creating new game for a minimum of 90 days. This process will not be automatic (could set up the "game maker" member group to maybe change to inactive after a set amount of time). Players may need to alert admin to start the process.
Player Game landing will need to have a number of specific information that can be used on the threadrow. Like Game Name, Rating, Genre, Open/Closed, Game Admin, etc. A thumbnail graphic should be used for the browsing page. A default should exist per main genre (maybe coded so game name is on top of it with an option to hide it?)
A player game thread will need to hold the content for the landing page for the game, so there should be some basic info there about the game admins, rules, claims, discord, and the like. These could be textareas that the game maker edits directly. I kind of like the idea of it all being in one place to edit, esp if the assigned mods can edit it. (Since site staff would have to approve all changes, maybe make things like the rules, plot, rating, and hard specifics in one thread and then put the other stuff like links, discord info, skin related stuff (that doesn't need approval to change like template choice. all game related images should be approved), etc could go in another thread that way staff doesn't have to approve every little change but can control the big ones.
Player Game Forum Tree? All could be optional. Could just be a list of the threads and nothing more.
- Staff Only (maybe do this as a password protected forum instead of fussing with permissions? would making it a password mean we couldn't put the landing info there to be used?)
- Story Development
- Character Development
- Game threads? (should that be a separate forum in the category or just in the main area. maybe make it dependent on template chosen)
Thread Options Needed
Game Name
Game Maker
Moderator One
Moderator Two
Genre
Rating
Application Requirement
Open/Closed
Plot
Rules
Extra Info Boxes?
I'm not sure about how I want to organize player games from a like a "My Games" type of perspective yet. But this category will have several sub templates.
Player Game Directory
This will be a section in the "Games" area where players can browse player created games. Ideally a category landing page with a ribbon of maybe contest winners or player nominated spotlights. Could also have a randomizer of all games. Could have newest made. Etc.
Player Game Forums? I don't love the idea, because it requires more moderation work on my end to keep up with dead games, but if I don't make them forums then I can't assign moderators to the games, which would limit their ability to control their games and defeat the point.
- Game must have at least 10 active (10+ posts) or completed threads in the game area to qualify for forums.
- Game must have at least 5 individual players signed on to participate to qualify
- Game must be ready to start at time of application. Game makers will have one week max to get setup. Games not setup in time will be removed and all requirements are doubled. (If you have 5 people signed up and have done 10 threads already, you should have had plenty of time to get all of the details in order before applying for a forum, and it will all need to be approved before the forums are created anyway.)
- See if we can make it so any changes to the approved game info must be approved by a staff member before it can go live
- Game owner must commit to weekly login minimum. Game owners offline for 3 weeks will forfeit game ownership to next in line mod. If no mod exists, the players will be allowed to vote for a replacement or disperse the game. Game owner will be banned from creating new game for a minimum of 90 days. This process will not be automatic (could set up the "game maker" member group to maybe change to inactive after a set amount of time). Players may need to alert admin to start the process.
Player Game landing will need to have a number of specific information that can be used on the threadrow. Like Game Name, Rating, Genre, Open/Closed, Game Admin, etc. A thumbnail graphic should be used for the browsing page. A default should exist per main genre (maybe coded so game name is on top of it with an option to hide it?)
A player game thread will need to hold the content for the landing page for the game, so there should be some basic info there about the game admins, rules, claims, discord, and the like. These could be textareas that the game maker edits directly. I kind of like the idea of it all being in one place to edit, esp if the assigned mods can edit it. (Since site staff would have to approve all changes, maybe make things like the rules, plot, rating, and hard specifics in one thread and then put the other stuff like links, discord info, skin related stuff (that doesn't need approval to change like template choice. all game related images should be approved), etc could go in another thread that way staff doesn't have to approve every little change but can control the big ones.
Player Game Forum Tree? All could be optional. Could just be a list of the threads and nothing more.
- Staff Only (maybe do this as a password protected forum instead of fussing with permissions? would making it a password mean we couldn't put the landing info there to be used?)
- Story Development
- Character Development
- Game threads? (should that be a separate forum in the category or just in the main area. maybe make it dependent on template chosen)
Thread Options Needed
Game Name
Game Maker
Moderator One
Moderator Two
Genre
Rating
Application Requirement
Open/Closed
Plot
Rules
Extra Info Boxes?