Hi everybody!
Now that the new Games2Gether platform is live, it's time to explain what we've changed, what we've kept and what we've left behind.
What has changed?
Games
As you have noticed, we've separated games into different Universes, there are five Universes at the moment: Endless Space, Dungeon of the Endless, Endless Legend, Endless Space 2 and Games2Gether itself.
Each Universe has its own own Devblogs, Forums, Votes...
You can choose to "Follow" a specific Universe, by clicking the star in the corresponding item menu, or from the Universe header star (which can also be used to stop following this Universe).
Following a Universe is used to:
- Have it in the top navigation menu, in the dedicated "Followed" area.
- Have a notification each time a new Blogpost is published.
- Have a notification each time a Vote is published or terminated.
We expect in the future more features linked to the Followed Universe, it could be a custom newsletter depending on your followed Universes, a custom home page highlighting your followed Universes...
Dev Blogs
We've kept all dev blogs, but we lost existing comments, mainly for technical reasons and because they are not as relevant as forums post & threads.
Forums
Not much to say here, every post has been migrated to the new forums, some forums may have been renamed, others that did not exist before are now available, but no big changes here.
During the migration process, some posts may have loose their formatting (especially if using tables...), you can of course edit yours to reformat them properly if needed.
Votes
We've kept all votes, but only with their final scores. The old system was too different from the new one, so we were not able to keep each user choice.
User blogs
This feature has disappeared in this new platform. It was not heavily used before, and we preferred to concentrate our focus on more used features.
They could be brought back if the community really wants them, we would have to see how it fits within our own roadmap.
Users Friend list
This feature also disappeared, but is still in our backlog. If many of you ask for it, we may work on the new system earlier than expected.
But as we want to improve the original feature, this could take some time before it will be released, be patient.
Awards, Achievements & G2G points
We've entirely reworked the G2G points system. There are no more awards, achievements or experiences, there are only Badges now.
Badges are the only way to gain G2G points, we will publish a specific devblog to detail this new system.
For now, everything has been reset, but we will give back the Badges like Beer2Gether, Events2Gether, Playtester, etc. soon. We just need some more time to translate the old (and very complicated...) system to the new one.
What is new!
Steam Integration
It is now possible to link your steam account to your G2G account. Doing this we can check if you own any of our games and have unlocked any achievements on them, allowing us to unlock corresponding badges!
We only save your steam ID, nothing else. We regularly check against the Steam API if you've unlocked new games or achievements. We do not have access to your whole Steam library, we can of course only check for Amplitude games.
Badges & G2G points
You can unlock badges by doing a variety of actions, like completing your profile, winning a contest, meeting the team during an event or a Beer2Gether, ...
The more badges you unlock and level up (for the ones that have levels), the more G2G points you gain.
G2G points are a kind of reputation meter, we use them for Votes, Leaderboards, etc.
Badges also reward you with Titles & Avatars that you can use to customize your profile. Click on a Badge from your profile's reward section to have the details of each Badge level, and the corresponding Titles / Avatars you can unlock !
Followed Content
You can choose to follow specific Universes, Forums & Threads, by clicking the corresponding star icon (in the navigation or header for Universes, in the toolbar for Forums & Threads).
Doing so you will enable quick links in the main navigation panel, and you will be notified each time new content is available on the following subject.
You'll also be able to access all your followed contents from your profile dedicated section.
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