u/FoohonPie

The annual PBBG Game Jam is on!

You can register now solo or as a team, and in 1 week we will reveal this year's theme and the builds can officially start.

Registration form is below:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeXs_zGtEpHudycJmCN3ErvcYIy5t26rESqbb-RcTrmyJEvLA/viewform?usp=dialog

Sun Oct 11 - Theme Reveal and Build Start
Sun Oct 25 - Build End and Testing/Scoring
Sun Nov 01 - Announce Scores/Winner

This year, more scoring emphasis will be placed on theme adherence. Complete rules and judging criteria will be announced later this week.

Further discussion is happening in our Discord:

https://discord.gg/4eSBKEhmV6

Let's jam!

I'm happy to report that the community-engagement-before-promo rule is working quite well!

The concern about it being too strict is not an issue. It turns out that most people are either on the obvious low side of community engagement, or well above it. People aren't really ever caught in the middle.

The challenge now is simply keeping up with it. We're a bit behind currently because posts come in for approval faster than we can review them, so we're looking for another moderator to help.

What it actually involves

It's just checks on user posts. When something comes into the automod queue, you look at it and at the poster's recent history here, and decide whether they've genuinely participated. There are mod tools to assist with this.

If yes, approve. If no, you remove their post and tag it with the removal reason. That's it.

How to make the call

If a user's contributions are obviously low-effort "this is cool" type comments, that shouldn't count. If it's a real judgment call and you're not sure, let it through. Err on the side of permissive.

What we're asking

• Respect Rule #1: be agreeable, even when you disagree. Enforcing our policy means telling people "no", which naturally invites pushback and disagreement. Our standard is to enforce firmly, but respond respectfully.
• Roughly 15-30 minutes a day of checking/clearing the queue. It varies throughout the week, sometimes there's barely anything and sometimes there's an influx. You'll have help: work is distributed amongst the team.
• Be reachable in the PBBG Discord, this is where mod coordination happens.

Interested?

Send us a modmail with a bit about yourself and why you're up for it.

Thanks!

Hi everybody,

We've been having monthly community hangouts in Discord for awhile now, and I'd like to invite you all here in the subreddit as well. It's very casual and open ended, and devs and players are both welcome.

This next one will be this coming Saturday, July 25 at 19:00 UTC.

There is no agenda, but some topics that have come up recently are:

• gaming (naturally)
• people sharing behind the scenes stuff or unreleased tech demos
• feedback about pbbg.com / r/PBBG / the Discord
• the business side of creative work
• music, both as listeners and musicians (turns out we have several musicians amongst us)

It's also just a great opportunity to meet each other and hang out for a bit. If you have something you want to talk about, bring it with ya!

It's scheduled for 1 hour but often goes to about 2 or so. It's a nice time. 🙂

The event schedule and invites can be found below:
https://discord.gg/cZjHqhEq3u

Lookin forward to seein ya there!