Possible Ways to Earn More Credits?

[SnowyRawrGamer]

Hey!
It would be really cool if there were more ways to earn credits. Now I know that giving away these credits does cost GDevelop money, but I think these things could be fun and not give away too many credits

1. Forum Prizes? It would be cool if GDevelop motivated people to help others on the forum and gave away like 200 credits a month or something to whoever was the “best on the forum” that month, kind of like new user of the month. It would also be cool if they did weekly/monthly draws that people could enter, just to keep the community active during times that don’t have game jams or things like that.
2. GDevelop Weekly Challenge! It would be cool if GDevelop make some sort of weekly challenge for people to complete, such as a platformer scene where there is a coin at the top of the scene, and you need to build and code the scene so the player can reach the coin! Or maybe a RNG game, where there is a 1/1,000,000 chance at getting something, but you have to code luck boosts or things like that. The reward for completing these could be credits, like 100 or 150.

These are just 2 ideas. Even if GDevelop doesn’t add any of these, I still think it would be cool to hear from the community on what other fun things there could be.

Do you have any ideas?

[zGameCreator]

@SnowyRawrGamer

200 credits a month or something to whoever was the “best on the forum” that month,

im pretty sure that 200 is a bit too much lol, also per month might also be too much as well, maybe every 3 months idk?

@SnowyRawrGamer

GDevelop Weekly Challenge! It would be cool if GDevelop make some sort of weekly challenge for people to complete, such as a platformer scene where there is a coin at the top of the scene, and you need to build and code the scene so the player can reach the coin! Or maybe a RNG game, where there is a 1/1,000,000 chance at getting something, but you have to code luck boosts or things like that. The reward for completing these could be credits, like 100 or 150.

hmm this is possible, but up to gdevelop.

@SnowyRawrGamer

Do you have any ideas?

zGameCreator ponders for about 20 secounds

nah none sorry

edit- IDEA! what if you give good feedback to a game an- never mind thats already there.

[SnowyRawrGamer]

I just thought of another idea!
(Ok, I get that bots could technically abuse this, but…)

What if you could send credits to others?
Like if you helped someone on the forum, you can say “If I was helpful, feel free to leave me a tip and send some credits on GDevelop!”

[zGameCreator]

@SnowyRawrGamer

What if you could send credits to others?
Like if you helped someone on the forum, you can say “If I was helpful, feel free to leave me a tip and send some credits on GDevelop!”

I have thought of that actually no joke.

but then again, what u said,

@SnowyRawrGamer

(Ok, I get that bots could technically abuse this, but…)

But still it would be amazing! and u could leave a note with the transfer!

(but then again it might be abused)

[Bubble]

@SnowyRawrGamer

whoever was the “best on the forum” that month

@SnowyRawrGamer

“If I was helpful, feel free to leave me a tip and send some credits on GDevelop!”

If these things happened, I’d leave. Begging/expectation/hope of reward for helping people would drive me away for sure.

[SnowyRawrGamer]

Oh ok.
That’s true that this could get taken the wrong way.
I guess incentive for helping people on the forum isn’t a very good option. Like I said before, this topic is to mainly theorize different ways GDevelop could give out more credits

[zGameCreator]

perhaps which game was made and published in that months, in the first day 1st , for every month, the most played game will get 50-200 credits.

and if no game was good, then no credits?

[AquaEcho]

I think the participation credit reward for these small prototype jams like the 3D scene one is fine. You could have one every month or so. That way everyone can get it. Only one person would get “Best Forum User” or whatever so it wouldn’t be a reliable or consistent way to get credit.

Farming credit through promoted game feedback is also already possible but I don’t see many people do it.