…did I change anything? As far as I’m concerned, unless I’m totally wrong about how Spotify works then YouTube is still the preferred option.
The rule as I wrote it says something like “available online, in full and for free, YouTube preferred.” (To me it seems that if a song isn’t on YouTube but is on, I dunno, a band’s website or something, that should be OK.) That technically includes Spotify, but only as a last resort - and yeah, the more I think about it the less I like the idea of requiring participants to sign up to something.
I’m definitely doing this, I’m composing a list now in fact. IF is good with exploring and manipulating physical objects and there’s some great song that are about things.
Hopefully! That’s part of why I’m delaying this - I want a certain project Out The Fucking Door before I start on anything new. This means I’ll have to find a loyal vote-monkey to tally up the scores - not because I might cheat or anything, but because it’s kind of unfair for me to be the only author to know exactly how many votes their game received.
Excellent - I’ll check in with you once the time gets closer. (Ideally, I’d like to use SurveyMonkey or something similarly low-friction, rather than make everyone email in a voting form.)
Right. A big part of the premise of how I want voting to work is that voting data won’t be public, and it’s unfair if one participant knows exactly where their game placed and nobody else does.
There needs to be a field for artist and song name, in addition to the URL (album name wouldn’t be a bad idea either)–YouTube and other services have non-transparent regional restrictions and recipients may have to seek out the track on their own if they are in a different part of the world from the person who selected the song.
It would be nice to have an optional comments field for each song.
Hrm! I was planning on voting - after the games are made - being in a survey, not track distribution. The latter I’m still planning on doing myelf, by hand, with email, though I’ll have a think about whether it’d be simpler with a form. (Bear in mind that my web-engineer skills are minimal to nonexistent.)
(Part of my assumption here is that game authors are relatively high-investment compared to voters, and the bother of sending an email rather than clicking through a form is pretty trivial compared to the bother of compiling a list of songs, sourcing them and writing a game.)
Oh, I think you should also have song selection via form–it would save you a lot of work! I don’t know how Survey Monkey works, but Jotform gives you (the organizer) a spreadsheet when you’re done, and submitting the form is just as easy for the participant as writing an email.
Ooh, that looks pretty damn nice; thanks for pointing it out.
Hmm. I’m not sure that this is true if basically every field will be text-entry. I’m poking around at a mockup of the signup form, and it looks like a great tool, but for what I’m using it for it’d basically be a giant pile of text entries. (This might be different if there was a way to associate text entries with one another and align them on the same line and stuff, but I don’t think there is.)