Open Source Game Competition

[squamulus]

Hello,
I'm working with a few guys on a project for indie game developers. The two of them quit their jobs about a year ago to focus on building a marketplace for indie games that gives developers more freedom and opportunities to collaborate. We're now almost ready for an open beta, and we need both games and people to help us test the platform.

To that end, we thought we might hold a competition to find some noteworthy open source games.  The goal of the competition is to grant recognition to open source developers who have contributed to the community in a way you feel is important.  Since our platform is based on indie game development, we're looking to celebrate the work of open source indies you love, granting their developers some recognition and allowing us to feature some favorite open source games from the community in our marketplace.

What do you think of this idea?  Who are some people in the community with open source projects that you think deserve recognition?

Here's the blog with guidelines for the competition: http://digitalmancompetition.wordpress.com. 
I'll be improving the site based on your feedback to make sure it's as awesome as possible, so feel free to drop your advice below. If you think the structure of the competition itself needs to be heavily modified I'll gladly take your suggestions. We'll be running more competitions in the future, so any input now would be great.

Thanks,
Samuel

[H-Hour]

Hi Samuel,

Welcome to the forums! Sounds like a cool initiative you've got going. I went ahead and nominated UFO:AI, but I'll predict the competition will be swept by Battle for Wesnoth as most of these are. I can't fault that, though, they've got a great game that I love to playl.

Slightly nit-picky feedback on the site: can you remove the auto-website-thumbnail-popups when mousing over a link? I find those things incredibly distracting as my mouse wanders over the site. But maybe others really like them, who knows!

[squamulus]

WELL! I didn't even know they were doing that. I'll go slap wordpress around and get it cleaned up. Thanks for the feedback ^^
-samuel

[squamulus]

Hmm

I tried finding the thumbnailing-link-pop-up-esque setting by have no idea where it may be. I checked using my browser and it doesn't do the same for me. Is it a browser enabled setting, possibly?

[H-Hour]

It's probably a plugin that you'd have to remove/disable from the plugins menu. It's probably this plugin.

[squamulus]

Hmmm. I don't know if it's because it's the new wordpress, but I don't have any plugins installed, let alone an actual directory to look at them. I took a screenshot of my menu bar and even did some forum trolling to find out what, precisely, is going on. Could it be that it's integrated into the new wordpress?

Looking foolish,
samuel

[squamulus]

To disable the previews there is a little link on the window that pops up that allows you to get rid of them. After doing some strenuous google-work I found this to be the only solution, since I currently have no plugins.

But! On an even more helpful note...

We've collected 40 nominations so far. The voting starts toward the end of the week, so I'll keep you posted about when you should run over and click the UFO: ALIEN INVASION button to get your game to the top.

Thanks for the help with wordpress ^^
samuel

[H-Hour]

Hmm, could be integrated into the theme, not sure. Let us know about the voting!