@coolboymew You should wait for the amateur video game hosting site that I'm coding for @graf and @beardalaxy. I'm considering having woke games filtered from search results by default.
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@xianc78 like i said, i'd want it to be a site everyone can use. i'd mark "LGBT" as an opt-in filter, as well as "political activism." but making it a "woke" filter is cringe... obviously nobody would upload stuff like that and it'll turn into a right-wing extremist echo chamber like everything else does online when it comes to free platforms, which is what i would ideally like to avoid.
during account setup, you could display a list of those filters and ask which ones the user wants to see, then mention they can change it at any time in their user settings.
i think an independent game or account mute feature would be great too, considering that not every filter is going to be extremely verbose. someone who opts in to the loli and gore filters might not necessarily want to see both together, so that one game that keeps popping up on their feed that features both they can have the chance to just mute and forget about.
@beardalaxy These are the default filters I thought about including so far.
@xianc78 Not too bad actually! I still think maybe "Activism" could be a good one to add here as well. Maybe LGBT would be better off as a user-added tag that you can mute or something, since I guess theoretically your game could feature a gay character and not necessarily be activist.
but i like this as a starting point for sure.
as far as furry goes, i can potentially see people not wanting to see furshit whatsoever, not just in a sexual way. i wonder if there is a good way to separate those two concepts in the same way as something like LGBT and Activism, like an "18+ furry" filter and a "furry" tag.
@beardalaxy I just know there are going to be those who say "all media is political" and bitch about the "Activism" tag.
@xianc78 it's at that point that i'm more like.... go put your game on itch instead then xD
i think you could totally have like a trump parody game without it falling into "activism." you could even do allegorical stuff.
but when it comes to someone, for instance, making a mod for BLM or AF, or showing support for a presidential candidate, or games tied to organizations such as PETA, then i think THAT ought to be classified as activism. not just random politics, but activism specifically. and no taking sides on that front, either.
also, as far as a name for the site goes, this is a little cheesy but how about "yourgame?" this has several meanings:
1) you purchased a game, it's your game, you should get to decide what you do with it (modding)
2) you are exercising your right to share your ideas, your game, without fearing that it will be taken down
3) your preferences for how you game, alluding to the filter features
idk, probably a prototype name there but i just thought of how youtube was originally, a tube for you. a tube for the people without the suits deciding what you can and can't upload pretty arbitrarily.
@beardalaxy
>also, as far as a name for the site goes, this is a little cheesy but how about "yourgame?"
It seems way to cheesy. Also, YouTube had strict rules, even back then. I remember people uploading shirtless videos and YouTube flagging them as "porn". The name meant "Broadcast Yourself". It gave people a chance to do just that. It didn't mean that there were no rules. Before that, you either had to create your own website or submit your pitch to a local public access station (assuming your area even had one).
I thought about "Indie Depot" or "IndieDepot". The only person who seems to already be using that name is some Instagram account. Though given that a lot of indie games are commercial and we currently don't support commercial games, it might be confusing. (I also place "hobbyist games" as a separate category from indie games)
@beardalaxy But despite, not currently supporting commercial games due to my lack of knowledge with online payment processing (both fiat and crypto) I do plan on having creators being able to link to their PayPal, Patreon, LibrePay, various crypto wallets etc on their profile page.
@xianc78 yeah, i like that name. sounds kinda cool. doesn't really roll off the tongue when you say it out loud, but that's not a huge issue i guess.
i personally don't see why indie games have to correlate with being commercialized tho.
@beardalaxy
I was thinking of a name that sounded neutral as possible. We are anti-censorship for the most part, but you said that you don't want the place to be solely associated with loli games and TND/"ETHNOGLOBE NOW" simulators, especially when Poast is helping with hosting the service.
>i personally don't see why indie games have to correlate with being commercialized tho.
I don't know. I guess it's because there have a been a lot of hobbyist developed games before the rise of commercial indie games and that a huge chunk of these hobbyist games are nowhere near professional quality.
@beardalaxy On a semi-related note. I did create a rough-draft for the site's ToS. It's mostly to prevent spam, legal issues, and abuse. Is there anything that should be changed? I think @graf should also have a say in it because it will be hosted on his server.
Privacy Policy hasn't been written only because I have no idea what kind of logging graf has on his network and servers.
Minimum age is 16 instead of 13 because recently, there has been a proposed revision to COPPA that raises the minimum age from 13 to 16. It hasn't been passed yet. You could allow underaged users, but from what I understand, you need to have some way to let their parents/guardians know and have a more clear privacy policy, which is why most sites don't allow children to sign up.