Archive for March, 2010

Quickly adding new players to a game

March 10th, 2010

We’ve just added a convenient little form on the Game URL pages to enable you to quickly add a new player to your game. You’ll need to be logged in as the game organiser to use it.

Once logged in, click the ‘Add a new player to this game’ link and you’ll see a little quick entry form to add your player’s name and email address.

Once added, the new player will stay associated to this game (to remove the player, untick his name from the Edit Game screen in the Dashboard).

Setting a maximum number of players

March 5th, 2010

We’ve just started rolling out one of the most requested features – the ability to set a maximum number of players in your game. Once this limit is reached the Game URL will not accept any more confirmed responses (unless someone drops out). This means you can setup your Game URL to accept, for example, the first 10 players, putting everyone else on ‘reserve’.

To enable this feature, simply log in to the Dashboard, navigate to the Edit screen for your game and enter a value in the ‘Player Limit’ field. That’s all there is to it!

Changes to the activity panel

March 3rd, 2010

We’ve made a few subtle changes to the activity panel today. If you’re not familiar with it, the activity panel is a useful log of information relating to your game (e.g. when one of your players clicks yes/no/maybe or when the website makes automatic changes to your game – such as clearing messages or refreshing the date).

The new changes involve the addition of drop-down menus to specify a time-frame to view the log of information. By default the drop-downs will display the current days activity.

We’ve also started logging comments in the activity panel – so you should be able to co-relate these to one of your players easier.