#featureannouncement

We just launched Social Signup and Login! You can now signup for a Cartrdge account using either your Facebook or Twitter accounts:

You’ll then of course be able to login to Cartrdge using either one (and note that you’ll still be able to create a separate password and then login using email/password, if you’d like):

What if I already have a Cartrdge account, you’re thinking to yourself, but still want to use FB or Twitter login? You can connect them from your profile settings!

As you can see above, once an accounted is connected the box will un-grey. In this case, the FB account is connected and the Twitter is not. 

We’ve received many requests from the community over the past few months to build Following. Ask and ye shall receive - we’re happy to announce that the feature is now live! You’re now able to follow each other, and moving forward your homepage when signed in will be a feed of the posts from the people you’re following, starting with the most recent.

We’re super excited about this, as it means that you can now personalize your experience on Cartrdge! If you want to follow only programmers who specialize in procedural generation, go for it. Or perhaps you’re interested in animation, and only want to follow the people who do that. Or maybe you’d like a mix of artists, composers, game designers and trailer specialists. It’s completely up to you! And we’ll still have the Staff Picks and All Posts feeds accessible so you can easily discover new people and the things they’re creating.

As you can see below, the Follow button will appear in several places and function predictably. Follow a user and their posts will begin populating your feed.

Here it is on a users’ profile page:

On an individual post page:

And on the user thumbnails:

We plan on giving you the ability to follow projects soon as well. What that means is that any post added to a project by one of its collaborators will show up in your feed, even if you’re not following any of those people. It’ll be a great way to keep up with a particular game or interest (remember, projects don’t have to be games specifically), without needing to see all of that users posts if you don’t want to.

We’re pumped to have following in your hands, and of course curious to hear what you think. Feel free to reach out to us at this email with any feedback, or even just to say hi!

Until next time,

We’re excited to announce that after 7 months in private beta, we’ll be opening up the Cartrdge community this Monday with a brand new invite system, while simultaneously launching the most incredible feature we’ve created - Collaborations.

Here’s a quick rundown on Collaborations and how the invite system will work. We’ll go into more detail next week when we officially launch!

Collaborations

We've had tons of requests to give Cartrdge users the ability to work together on projects, like they do in real life. Great idea! Ask and you shall receive. Starting Monday, Collaborations will allow you to add other Cartrdge users to a project. Once someone has been added to a project, they can add posts just like the project creator can. It's a perfect fit for game jams, devblogs, #screenshotsaturday, promotional game pages, studios, and any kind of group collaborations. We can't wait to see what people come up with. Seriously, we're shaking. We are that excited :D 

The Invite System

This is it. It's really happening. This is how we’ll be opening things up, by putting the power of growing the community into your hands. On Monday each of you will get invites to send to friends, colleagues or just people you’d like to see join Cartrdge. Invites are limited so we can maintain a super high quality community and handle what will almost certainly be epic viral growth. Over time we will refill invites.

We’re stoked for Collaborations and to finally open up the Cartrdge community, and can’t wait to get these features into your hands.

See you on Monday!

We’re pleased to announce that discovering people and the amazing work they’re posting on Cartrdge just got a whole lot easier. Starting this very moment, most of the information on the site is clickable!

As you can see, this functionality extends past the tags you can add to a post or project, or the skill tags on your profile. We’ve made the Platform, Controls, Engine and Genre fields clickable as well!

As you may have guessed, what this means is that when you click on one of these bits of information, whether it’s a tag, platform, engine etc, you’ll then see a search result related to that term.

Let’s use content (posts/projects) as an example. If you click a tag on a post, you’ll get a search result of all the other posts that also have that tag. Even cooler, on that same page you’ll also get a result of the all the projects with the same tag, separated by tabs like we do on the home page. See below:

If you clicked “voxel” from within a post, then you’ll land on the post results first. If you clicked on it from within a project, then the projects will show up. Pretty simple!

The same goes for user profiles. When you click on a skill tag, you’ll see a search result of all the other people on the site who have that skill. Looking for someone who excels at 3d art? We’ve got you covered:

At the moment, this is the full list of terms that are clickable:

These are clickable on User profiles and will return a User search:

Skill tags

Industry role and Geography (coming soon)

While these fields are clickable on a post or project and will return a Content search:

Game Title

Platforms

Engine

Controls

Genre

Tags

Until now you might’ve been wondering why we ask for so much information, whether it’s when you’re creating a profile, post or project. It’s a fair question, since you couldn’t really do much with any of the info. That changes today! Being able to click and search through all of these fields will make the site a much easier and more interesting place to discover not just new work, but also the people creating it.

We’ve got lot’s more functionality planned for search, and this is just the first step. But making all of this information clickable will greatly enhance the browsing experience, and make Cartrdge an even better place to share what you’re working on.

We hope you’ll enjoy this and find it useful. And as always, please do get in touch with any feedback or suggestions on how we can improve things.

Cheers,