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- Add information about expected and final video quality. - Fix URL to the showcase voting app on GitHub. - Fix contact email address `mailto:` link. - Improve grammar and formatting.
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Hugo Locurcio
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<h3>What is this website for?</h3>
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<p>
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The Godot engine showreel website aims at providing a platform for members of the <a href="https://godotengine.org">Godot engine</a> community to submit and rate videos for the regular showreels of the engine.
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A showreel is usually a 2 to 3-minutes-long video featuring a set of around 15-seconds-long games (or tools) captures. See <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEDEIksGEjQ">here</a> or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIapugketbs">here</a>.
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It aims at illustrating the capabilities of the engine and offers a little bit of visibility to the featured games.
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The Godot Engine showreel website aims at providing a platform for members of the <a href="https://godotengine.org">Godot Engine</a> community to submit and rate videos for the regular showreels of the engine.
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A showreel is usually a 2 to 3-minutes-long video featuring a set of 10-15-seconds-long games (or tools) captures. See the previous showreels for examples of videos that suit the format: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEDEIksGEjQ">2020 Desktop</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIapugketbs">2020 Mobile</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlKEO1N8wMM">2019 Desktop</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODn4oOqWGik">2019 Mobile</a>.
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It aims at illustrating the capabilities of the engine and offers some visibility to the featured games.
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</p>
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@@ -20,88 +20,95 @@ However, doing this selection took us time, which was not used instead to improv
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<p>
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So with this website you can submit video proposals for the open showreels and rate other users' video too. <b>The votes are not public at all, no one but the administrators can access the vote results.</b>
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This avoids comparisons between proposals, and, <b>since the final decision is always up to a set of core contributors</b>, it also avoids claims on the rating results.
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To insist on this point, <b>the votes results are only here to help core contributors to select the best proposals</b>, they are by no mean the contractual way of selection.
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To insist on this point, <b>the vote results are only here to help core contributors to select the best proposals</b>, they are by no means the contractual way of selection.
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Consequently, any attempt to bias the results calling for votes on your proposal is pointless, it will only put more selection work on the contributors.
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Note that we may also automatically remove from the ratings data users with bad voting behaviors, such as rating one star every game but one five stars.
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Consequently, any attempt to bias the results calling for votes on your proposal is pointless. It will only put more selection work on the contributors.
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Note that we will also remove the rating data from users with bad voting behaviors, such as rating 1 star for every game except one with 5 stars.
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Also, to avoid such behaviors, videos are presented in a random order which cannot be changed.
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</p>
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<h3 id="eligible">I have made a video of my game, is it eligible for a showreel?</h3>
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<p>
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For it to be eligible, please make sure your video:
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For your video to be eligible:
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<li>features a game (or a tool) made with Godot,</li>
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<li>complies with the specificity of the showreel you want to apply for (do not submit a PC game to the mobile showreel for example),</li>
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<li>is less than 1 minute long,</li>
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<li>does not include nudity, gore, hateful or chocking content (the showreel is uploaded to Youtube, therefore it has to respect their rules),</li>
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<li>was not already submitted.</li>
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<li>Your video must feature a game or a tool made with Godot.</li>
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<li>Your video must comply with the specificity of the showreel you want to apply for. For example, do not submit a desktop-only game to the mobile showreel.</li>
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<li>Your video must be less than 1 minute long.</li>
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<li>Your video must be captured with good quality and be smooth (avoid visible frame dropping).</li>
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<li>Your video must not feature a watermark.</li>
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<li>Your video must not include nudity, gore, hateful or shocking content. The showreel is uploaded to YouTube and has to respect its rules.</li>
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<li>Your video must not have already been submitted for this showreel.</li>
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</ul>
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<p/>
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<p>
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You are limited to 3 proposals per showreel but this is mainly needed if you have different games to submit.
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Please avoid submitting more than one video per game, usually they end up with similar rates. It does not make you have more chances to be selected, but simply requires more work from the contributors for nothing.
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Do not be afraid of not having a perfect video, if your game is selected, we may contact you to discuss the video content, and ask you a better version of the video that would better fit the showreel if needed.
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For desktop games, the video resolution should be 1080p or higher, 60 FPS if possible.
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For mobile games, the video resolution should be 720p or higher, 60 FPS if possible.
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The final showreel video will be edited and uploaded in 4K @ 60 FPS to maximize quality.
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</p>
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<p>
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You are limited to 3 proposals per showreel, but this is mainly needed if you have different games to submit.
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Please avoid submitting more than one video per game. Usually, these videos on the same game will end up with similar scores. It does not give you more chances to be selected, but simply requires more work from the contributors for nothing.
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</p>
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<p>
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Don't be afraid of not having a perfect video! If your game is selected, we may contact you to discuss the video content and ask you a better version of the video that would better fit the showreel.
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</p>
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<h3 id="tips">How can I maximize my chances to be selected?</h3>
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A few tips:
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<li>make your video dynamic (with short sequences),</li>
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<li>make it as diverse as possible, with different environments, gameplays sequences, etc...</li>
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<li>if you have in-game text, have it in English if possible, it is likely the most widely understood language in the community,</li>
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<li>avoid adding text on top of the video at all costs, we already add our text on top and full-screen text will be removed at edit time,</li>
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<li>the video can include sound or music, but the sound will be cut from the showreel as it has its own music.</li>
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</ul>
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Here are a few tips:
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Make your video dynamic (with short sequences).</li>
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<li>Make it as diverse as possible, with different environments, gameplays sequences, etc.</li>
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<li>If you have in-game text, have it in English if possible. It is likely the most widely understood language in the community.</li>
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<li>Avoid adding text on top of the video at all costs! We already add our own legend for each video on top.</li>
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<li>The video can include sound or music, but the sound will be cut from the showreel as it has its own music.</li>
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</ul>
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<h3>My video is eligible to a showreel, how can I submit it?</h3>
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<p>
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To submit your video, go to <a href="{% url 'submissions' %}">your submissions</a> and clic on the "New submission" button (it will be disabled if there is no currently opened showreel).
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Select the showreel you want to submit a video to, then fill in the fields with your game's title and a link to your video. Eventually, you can add a link to follow the progress of your game (like your social network account or your website).
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Select the showreel you want to submit a video to, then fill in the fields with your game's title and a link to your video. Eventually, you can add a link to follow the progress of your game (like your social network account or your website).
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This link will be added in the description of the showreel's video.
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</p>
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<p>
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Note that for now, only Youtube videos are fully integrated in the website, if you use another upload platform, users will have to clic a link to access your video.
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Note that for now, only YouTube videos are fully integrated in the website, if you use another upload platform, users will have to clic a link to access your video.
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</p>
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<p>
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Once submitted, your video will be visible in the list of your submissions. It can be edited or deleted there, unless the showreel is already open to votes.
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Once submitted, your video will be visible in the list of your submissions. It can be edited or deleted there until the showreel is open to votes.
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If you want your submission to be edited or deleted during the vote, please <a href="#contact_us">contact us</a>.
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</p>
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You will not be able to see your video in the vote page, a user cannot vote for his own proposals.
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You will <em>not</em> be able to see your video in the vote page, as a user cannot vote for their own proposals.
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</p>
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<h3 id="contact_us">Contact us</h3>
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<p>
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You can contact the showreel administrators via our contact address <a href = "mailto: showreel@godotengine.org">showcase@godotengine.org</a>.
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You can contact the showreel administrators via our email address <a href="mailto:showcase@godotengine.org">showcase@godotengine.org</a>.
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</p>
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<h3>License</h3>
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This website's code, built with django, is freely available on <a href="">GitHub</a> under the MIT license.
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It uses several icons provided by <a href="https://fontawesome.com/">Fontawesome</a> under the CC BY 4.0 license.
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This website's code, built with Django, is freely available on <a href="https://github.com/groud/godot-showreel-voting">GitHub</a> under the MIT license.
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It uses several icons provided by <a href="https://fontawesome.com/">Font Awesome</a> under the CC BY 4.0 license.
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</p>
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<h3>Personal data</h3>
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<p>
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To run this website, we store the following data:
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<ul>
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<li>your account username and mail address,</li>
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<li>your video proposals and their associated data,</li>
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<li>your votes on other users' proposals.</li>
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</ul>
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Your account username and email address.</li>
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<li>Your video proposals and their associated data.</li>
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<li>Your votes on other users' proposals.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>
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For any request regarding the data associated with your account, please <a href="#contact_us">contact us</a>.
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