Torque Game Builder Bounties (Part 2)

First of all, if you missed my first post about them, we're reaching out to the community to help get some art and sample assets into Torque Game Builder with a chance at making some cash for your time!

Read more about it in my previous plan : Here


It appears there's been a bit of confusion over the bounties that we posted the other day for TGB that I should clear up.


Submitting Large Bounties

Because mantis is already being overloaded, we suggest using YouSendIt.com to send us your bounties if they are over 1MB in size. While mantis says it's max upload size if 5MB the apache server only allows up to 1MB, so if your files are larger than that, please use YouSendIt to submit your bounties and also post a note on the bounty itself. All YouSendIt submissions should go to justind@garagegames.com

Bounty-Awareness


Bounties are awarded based on the first accepted submission to the bounty so it's a good idea to keep an eye on a bounty that you might be working on so that you can know when other submissions are added and/or accepted-it's a bummer to work on something for a while then find out someone beat you to it yesterday. You can help combat this by being 'Bounty-Aware'.

Knowing your bounty status

The first step to being bounty-aware is to know the status of your bounty. When you're browsing the bounty list, bounties are listed with a color. This color indicates their status which is of great use to you hunters out there.

New - New status is highlighted with the color Red
The New status means that the bounty is open game for all hunters to take a stab at.

Assigned - Assigned status is highlighted with the color Blue
The Assigned status means that a bounty has been turned in and accepted with some minor adjustments before it is resolved.

Resolved - Resolved status is highlighted with the color Green
The Resolved status means that a bounty has been turned in and accepted, but the hunter is still in the process of being compensated.

Closed - The Closed status is highlighted with the color Grey
The Closed status means that the bounty has been accepted and the hunter has been compensated for his efforts.

Tracking Your Bounty

After finding a bounty that meets your status criteria, you need to track your bounty's status while on the hunt. When you are viewing the details of a bounty in the mantis tracker, there is a button on the form that says 'Monitor Issue'; just click that button and you will get email notifications about activity on it.

Hunter Pro

Once you have mastered these two techniques you can rest assured that when a bounty changes in any way that you know about it, and also be sure that your bounty hasn't been claimed so you don't do unnecessary work.


Beta 3 Bounties

Some bounties in the list are labeled for Beta3 compatibility. We are releasing a new Beta at the end of this month and at that time bounties to be paid, must comply and work with this revision. Not terribly much has changed that will require changes, but it may be necessary. If there's a suitable submission and the author agrees to update it to work with Beta 3 before it's release, we may Assign the issue to that person.


Hope this helps clear any questions you all may have had up. Happy bounty hunting!

Cheers,
-Justin