Attempting this again: Demo/alpha room
Hello everyone,
I know simular suggestions like this have cropped up quite frequently in the past, however I believe more than ever it is more necessary to accomodate betas and small alphas.
My suggestion, create another room for early alpha's and betas, so folks going into that room would generally be more open minded and armed with the lack of overly high expectation that comes with a New Release, either big or small.
Who is this aimed at?
The main driver to me at least for this new room is the recent uptick in sighted developers coming on the forums releasing concept demos to attempt to feel the audiogame scene. As it stands now I don't think neither the New Releases room or Developer's room can facilitate and provide a warm platform for these new developers to post their test projects to gage community input.
The New Release room has a certain expectation, and folks there would generally be less welcoming of a new release, even though its labelled as a concept demo. We've seen several examples of this quite recently sadly.
The issue with the Developer's room is generally I'm pretty sure the average forum user skips it as its generally aimed, well, at developers, and thus projects posted in there would be less likely to be seen by a larger crowd leaving the developers in the cold.
In addition, smaller projects released by our homegrown talent can also be posted in there.
I hope the moderation team takes the above to consideration, as I do think the Developer's room and New Release rooms aren't Hello everyone,
I know simular suggestions like this have cropped up quite frequently in the past, however I believe more than ever it is more necessary to accomodate betas and small alphas.
My suggestion, create another room for early alpha's and betas, so folks going into that room would generally be more open minded and armed with the lack of overly high expectation that comes with a New Release, either big or small.
Who is this aimed at?
The main driver to me at least for this new room is the recent uptick in sighted developers coming on the forums releasing concept demos to attempt to feel the audiogame scene. As it stands now I don't think neither the New Releases room or Developer's room can facilitate and provide a warm platform for these new developers to post their test projects to gage community input.
The New Release room has a certain expectation, and folks there would generally be less welcoming of a new release, even though its labelled as a concept demo. We've seen several examples of this quite recently sadly.
The issue with the Developer's room is generally I'm pretty sure the average forum user skips it as its generally aimed, well, at developers, and thus projects posted in there would be less likely to be seen by a larger crowd leaving the developers in the cold.
In addition, smaller projects released by our homegrown talent can also be posted in there.
I hope the moderation team takes the above to consideration, as I do think the Developer's room and New Release rooms aren't generally suitable homes for new concept demos, and if we want to encourage new devs we should make proper provisions and arrangements for them to unvail their demos.
generally suitable homes for new concept demos, and if we want to encourage new devs we should make proper provisions and arrangements for them to unvail their demos.
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