BonusLevel docs, Community

Community

On BL (BonusLevel.org), a game is also a community. As the author of the game, you must also follow carefully the life of your game. The most popular the game is, the more levels will be designed by the community around it. All levels have to be checked and accepted before being featured, and the game's author is the best person for this job. This is an important workload, but, luckily, the most pouplar the game is, the most likely you will find administrators to help you in this task.

Administrators

You can invite some members to become administrators.
Admin level 1 can accept the good levels and reject the others.
Admin level 2 decides for the offical levels.

Levels policy

It's important that all level designers and administrators can rely on common rules. The game policy (about accepted and rejected levels) can be displayed in the level editor's intructions (that can be edited through the submition form).
Example :
1 - We will not accept levels that are too difficult.
2 - We will not accept levels that are too similar to a previous level.
etc...

Official levels

You must always think twice before making a level "official". Especially if the game has highscores enabled.
Why? Because if you change your mind later, the scores of the players having played this former offical level, will be higher than the scores of the players that didn't play it. Actually, the system will correct the scores after a while but this is not instantaneous and therefore, it might cause some errors on the highscores board for a couple of days.