running_a_contest

Introduction

Add your content here. Or not.

Announcing it

1. create a category for it "ld14" or whatever - for mini compos, create a sub category of the mini category
2. e-mail the gamecompo.com mailing list of course!
3. make a blog post announcing the upcoming contest (as user=news)
4. For a big compo, copy the previous compo's wiki to a new folder and update some links so that each compo gets its own wiki. More specific instructions to be added.

The Countdown

1. Modify https://ludumdare.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/compo/themes/ludum/countdown.php
2. SSH to the site
3. $ cd (something)/compo/wp-content/themes/ludum
4. $ svn update

Theme Voting

1. Create a new wordpress "page" per day of theme voting
2. Fill that page with the theme voting tag as follows. To start voting:

[compo-vote:open:theme1;theme 2;theme 3]

• To show the results of voting:

[compo-vote:closed:theme1;theme 2;theme 3]

Starting a Compo

1. Create a new wordpress page for the compo
2. Put in a tag . This is a basic tag for a Official Compo that includes a Game Jam

[compo2 state="active" jcat="ld234" cats="Innovation;Fun;Theme;Graphics;Audio;Humor;Overall;Community" rules="http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/rules/" gamejam="1"]

For a Mini-LD, including a Game Jam is probably silly. (Though in many cases, the Mini LD is ONLY a Game Jam, either way, don't include the Game Jam. To run a Mini as just a Game Jam, just don't have a "rate" and "results" phase, just jump right to "closed" at the end.)

[compo2 state="active" jcat="ld234" cats="Innovation;Fun;Overall" rules="link-to-main-blog-post"]

Here are all the compo2 tag attributes.

1. state - is "active" at start. Further definition below.
2. jcat - is optional, but can refer to the wp-category slug that is being used by contestants to journal in.
3. cats - should be a semi-colon delimited list of voting categories "Fun;Innovation;Production;Theme"
4. locked - should be 0 or 1. If set to 1, it will stop users from adding new entries. Existing users can still edit their existing entries.
5. rules - should be a URL to a page with rules for this competition.
6. gamejam - should be set to 1 if this competition includes a Game Jam.
7. pubvote - should be set to 1 if the public (non-entrants) can vote

Rating Entries

1. Change the STATE to "rate" NOTE: if gamejam=1, all new entries will be part of the gamejam at this point.

Viewing Results

1. Change the STATE to "results"

Closed Compos

1. Change the STATE to "closed" This is only used for compos that are not being judged. It merely closes the compo from adding new entries.

Admin

1. Click on the "Enter admin mode" link. It will let you modify and disable entries.