YYG: User suggestion becomes reality?

J-Factor, a well known member of the GMC has made a public suggestion for managing submitted games and determining their level of security / ’safeness’.

Users can upload either safe/secure games or normal games. Safe games would have a special status icon (e.g. a green tick) to show they are safe to play. Normal games would have a question mark icon to show that there may be a risk.

When you attempt to download a normal game it should display a mild warning (that could be disabled in user preferences) and perhaps a checkbox where you agree not to hold YoYo Games responsible. The “unknown risk” status for normal games could be changed by user voting or a moderator. Once a certain number of users have voted the game as “Safe” simply change the status.

Sandy commented to say the YYG team likes the suggestion J-Factor made and has decided to listen to the public on this one and will most likely implement such a system in the near future. Sandy did say however, that this suggestion can’t be implemented in time for the first public beta release of the website.

+1 for YoYo Sounds like a fair compromise to the safe-mode policy they are encouraging

Mark Prefers GMS over 64D?

While the Games Showcase is still a big name in the gaming community… it has become decreasingly popular lately with less and less updates and less and less activity. 64Digits on the other hand is thriving compared to it’s competitors: Games Showcase and Game Maker Games (currently being relocated to a new host and has effectively been dead for month(s)).

Mark recently removed the link to the Game Maker Games website from the official Game Maker page after GMG started experiencing problems with their host. Instead Mark suggested users visit the Games Showcase. It is surprising that there hasn’t been a mention to the 64Digits community, and perhaps there is something we don’t know about, that Mark is holding against them.

Anyone with information on the subject, please feel free to comment.