Collaborations is a feature we built into our project pages, allowing multiple Cartrdge users to belong to a project and to add posts to it. Here’s a quick guide on how collaborations work!

You add collaborators in the project settings page. You can do this when creating a new project, or of course for an already existing project. Scroll down the page, right below the tags input box, and you’ll find the collaborators section.

As you can see above there are two columns. In the right column are the users who are already part of the project; the person who created it will always be part of it, and cannot be removed. The left column is where you’ll search for collaborators. As you type in the searchbox (you can use either a name or username) results will begin to appear:

To add a user to the project, just click on the ‘+’ next to their name. They will then be moved into the righthand column:

If you’d like to later remove them, simply click the ‘-’ sign and they’ll be off the project.

Once a user is part of a project, a few things will happen. Their avatar will automatically appear on the project page, which makes projects an awesome way to show off your team:

Each collaborator will also be able to add posts to the project, which can be done in several ways. The first is from the create a new post form. As you can see in the image below, when creating a new post you will have the option to add it to any of your existing projects (and a search box to help sort in case you have many to look through):

You’ll also be able to add existing posts to a project from the project settings page. We used the same two column approach, with the left column used to search for posts and the right column displaying posts already part of the project. An additional detail we added is the ability to add any or your collaborators’ posts to a project. They’ll appear in the left hand column along with your own!

Something to note is that currently, all collaborators on a project will have near-admin privileges. This means they can edit the settings, but not delete the project entirely.

And that’s your Collaborations how-to guide. We hope you enjoy this feature!

We’ve received many requests from the community over the past few months to build Following. Ask and ye shall receive - we’re happy to announce that the feature is now live! You’re now able to follow each other, and moving forward your homepage when signed in will be a feed of the posts from the people you’re following, starting with the most recent.

We’re super excited about this, as it means that you can now personalize your experience on Cartrdge! If you want to follow only programmers who specialize in procedural generation, go for it. Or perhaps you’re interested in animation, and only want to follow the people who do that. Or maybe you’d like a mix of artists, composers, game designers and trailer specialists. It’s completely up to you! And we’ll still have the Staff Picks and All Posts feeds accessible so you can easily discover new people and the things they’re creating.

As you can see below, the Follow button will appear in several places and function predictably. Follow a user and their posts will begin populating your feed.

Here it is on a users’ profile page:

On an individual post page:

And on the user thumbnails:

We plan on giving you the ability to follow projects soon as well. What that means is that any post added to a project by one of its collaborators will show up in your feed, even if you’re not following any of those people. It’ll be a great way to keep up with a particular game or interest (remember, projects don’t have to be games specifically), without needing to see all of that users posts if you don’t want to.

We’re pumped to have following in your hands, and of course curious to hear what you think. Feel free to reach out to us at this email with any feedback, or even just to say hi!

Until next time,

The Cartrdge Team

We’re pleased to announce that discovering people and the amazing work they’re posting on Cartrdge just got a whole lot easier. Starting this very moment, most of the information on the site is clickable!

As you can see, this functionality extends past the tags you can add to a post or project, or the skill tags on your profile. We’ve made the Platform, Controls, Engine and Genre fields clickable as well!

As you may have guessed, what this means is that when you click on one of these bits of information, whether it’s a tag, platform, engine etc, you’ll then see a search result related to that term.

Let’s use content (posts/projects) as an example. If you click a tag on a post, you’ll get a search result of all the other posts that also have that tag. Even cooler, on that same page you’ll also get a result of the all the projects with the same tag, separated by tabs like we do on the home page. See below:

If you clicked “voxel” from within a post, then you’ll land on the post results first. If you clicked on it from within a project, then the projects will show up. Pretty simple!

The same goes for user profiles. When you click on a skill tag, you’ll see a search result of all the other people on the site who have that skill. Looking for someone who excels at 3d art? We’ve got you covered:

At the moment, this is the full list of terms that are clickable:

These are clickable on User profiles and will return a User search:

• Skill tags
• Industry role and Geography (coming soon)

While these fields are clickable on a post or project and will return a Content search:

• Game Title
• Platforms
• Engine
• Controls
• Genre
• Tags

Until now you might’ve been wondering why we ask for so much information, whether it’s when you’re creating a profile, post or project. It’s a fair question, since you couldn’t really do much with any of the info. That changes today! Being able to click and search through all of these fields will make the site a much easier and more interesting place to discover not just new work, but also the people creating it.

We’ve got lot’s more functionality planned for search, and this is just the first step. But making all of this information clickable will greatly enhance the browsing experience, and make Cartrdge an even better place to share what you’re working on.

We hope you’ll enjoy this and find it useful. And as always, please do get in touch with any feedback or suggestions on how we can improve things.

Cheers,

The Cartrdge Team