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Mike Kasprzak edited this page Jun 10, 2015 · 1 revision

Introduction

Contest code has been overhauled. Contest now broken down into separate divisions such as "compo;open;gamejam". Contestants in separate divisions can get voting results in the SAME categories. So if you want a separate overall category for the Compo and the Open division, you should name the cats like "OverallCompo" and "OverallOpen" or whatever.

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="ld18" init="1"  calc_droplow="2" calc_drophigh="2" calc_reqvote="3" divs="compo;open;gamejam" opendivs="compo;open;gamejam" compo_cats="Innovation;Fun;Overall" compo_title="Competition" compo_summary="The Basic <a href='#'>rules</a> apply"  open_cats="Overall" open_title="Open" open_summary="The open rules apply" gamejam_summary="No rules, do whatever" gamejam_title="Game Jam" topcat="Overall"]

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="ld18mini" init="1"  divs="compo" opendivs="compo" compo_cats="Innovation;Fun;Overall" compo_title="Competition" compo_summary="The Basic <a href='#'>rules</a> apply"  topcat="Overall"]

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. divs - a semi-colon delimited list of the divisions in this contest "compo;open;gamejam"
  4. opendivs - a semi-colon delimited list of divisions that can be joined at this time "compo;open;gamejam" when the compo goes into rate mode, probably change this to "open;gamejam"
  5. $DIV_cats - should be a semi-colon delimited list of voting categories "Fun;Innovation;Production;Theme"
  6. $DIV_title - title of the division "Competition" "Open" "Game Jam"
  7. $DIV_summary - Summary / Rules: "The basic rules must be followed, etc, etc blah blah" May include HTML that uses single quotes, so you can link to more detailed information.
  8. 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. This setting restricts users from changing their division as well.
  9. pubvote - should be set to 1 if the public (non-entrants) can vote
  10. calc_droplow - number of low votes to be dropped per entry
  11. calc_drophigh - number of high votes to be dropped per entry
  12. calc_reqvote - number of remaining votes required to calculate an average
  13. topcat - The voting category that will show the top entries, usually Overall.

NOTE: if you change calc_droplow, calc_drophigh, calc_reqvote you must access ?admin=1&action=recalc to recalculate the results of the competition to reflect those changes.

NOTE: You can preview the results by accessing ?admin=1&action=results OR ?admin=1&action=top

Rating Entries

  1. Change the STATE to "rate"

Viewing Results

This process takes a few steps.

  1. ?admin=1&action=recalc

This will force the site to recalc the results.

  1. ?admin=1&action=results

View the results.

  1. ?admin=1&action=results&more=1

To view the full results.

  1. ?admin=1&action=top

View the "top" results. Then do it for each &cat=NAME_OF_CATEGORY to build up the cache. You can do that by clicking from the main results page.

  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.
  2. action=results - see compo results
  3. action=top - see compo top results
  4. add ?cache=0 to reset the cache for a page

Whatever

?action=me

Redirect the user to ?action=preview&uid=UID

Emergency Cache Mode

Edit wp-content/plugins/compo2/fcache.php .. The first few lines let you put the site into emergency mode. This should reduce the load on the site considerably. There are 4 steps:

Step 1: in compo2_fcache_admin add your IP address to the array. So instead of array("127.0.0.1") it will say array("127.0.0.1","your_ip_address_goes_here");

Step 2: you will make "compo2_fcache_emergency" return true to enable the emergency mode.

Step 3: Do your emergency stuff.

Step 4: Undo steps 1 and 2.

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