RE: Project Introduction: Solarium - A Steempunk Visual Novel
Thank you for the submission. The project idea inspired and triggered me to check out Ren'py and I want to try the library to create a visual novel, at least a simple example.
Besides the idea, the post is a problematic case as a blog post in Utopian for several reasons. First, the project is an idea at the moment instead of a live project at the moment. Although there is code in the GitHub repository of the project, it's only the very beginning and development progress could be barely considered as started.
Also, the content has little value as a blog post even though it's decent in several ways, since it's just a copy of project README. Contributions in Blogs category are expected to provide unique content with a special language and presentation to promote open source projects and add value to open source community.
I really liked the project, added it to my watchlist and I would love to see its progress in Utopian. But to clarify for this specific case, contributions get rewarded only if they are for projects at a certain phase of their development/production get rewarded in Utopian.
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Thank you for checking my submission! What do you think would be a good gauge for when the project should get rewarded through Utopian? For example, at the end of a first draft of the script? After the first demo?
Blogs are meant for promoting, and promotions are the best when you have something concrete in your hand to present. For your project, it would be probably the first playable version. By playable, I mean what demo is for most of the games in the market.
I also suggest checking Utopian Guidelines for information about Task Requests which can help you achieve your goals on the roadmap faster when your project is ready to be presented. If you need further information about anything, please join Utopian Discord and let us help you.
Thank you for taking the time to answer my follow-up question.