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The contest page should link to the scoring page. https://alphacoders.com/contest/author-score

A few days ago I picked up Wargroove, and it's been a blast so far. The game is basically built around Advance Wars nostalgia, and then runs with it. The commanders and different factions are suberb.

• Pixel Art is great
• Love supporting indie devs
• $20 base price

Another modern quality of life improvement is that you can easily change the difficulty on campaign missions. For younger players, or people not great at turn based strategy games, this is a beautiful feature.

I definitely recommend checking it out

Hey everyone!

A bit ago I posted about moving small wallpapers off Wallpaper Abyss and onto Image Abyss. You can see the reasoning here.

Anyways, this process has officially started! If you're a bit curious about how we are doing it - we are going nice and slow. There are a bit more than 2,000 wallpapers 1024x768 and smaller - and those will be converted to Image Abyss over the next month and a half.

David West
Alpha Coders

Yeah it's a good one

The special raffle for February is an author raffle! Add author information to your submissions, or other submissions without author information, and get a nice prize for helping out! Alpha Coders is made better when we have lots of accurate author information for content - so your help is VERY appreciated!

David West
Alpha Coders

Buying is looking like it's working for me. If the user is still having issues, have them post so I can ask questions.

Crashing by ILLENIUM

Spotify: spotify:track:7egj375ez0KtF3bYCfAHdZ
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eyMLeFvVBg

One of my most recent finds.

Chocolate

Hello everyone!

I wanted to let you know about a change that is coming to Wallpaper Abyss. Wallpaper Abyss is over a decade old, and in that time a lot has changed in terms of screen sizes.

Some of the original image sizes we allowed on Wallpaper Abyss simply aren't relevant as wallpaper today. Sizes like 800x600 and 1024x768. Resolutions like these are used by a very VERY small percentage of our users.

Soon we are going to mass convert 1024x768 and smaller images from Wallpaper Abyss to Image Abyss.

This will be something that happens occasionally as technology continues to move forward

Please let me know if you have any concerns or questions.

David West
Alpha Coders

I've reduced the required number of captions by half This should make it easier to get on the board and see where others are!

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Q: My content was moved from Wallpaper Abyss to Image Abyss. I think it should have remained at Wallpaper Abyss.

A: You can ask the moderator why. If you want to escalate the issue, you can contact our community manager (linked above) or even email admin@alphacoders.com. Please do not delete the content, and upload it to where it was moved from, as that is a violation of rule 5 above.

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I may have underestimated how much time it takes to generate good captions.

When the contest ends I will automatically change the top tier prize to the person with the most captions - so please don't feel discouraged!

For example, if the top user makes it to 300 captions, I'll reset the tiers to something like 300, 100, 50, 30, 5

In the next couple of days I will cut the scoring requirements down a bit preemptively as well

One Headlight by The Wallflowers

Spotify: spotify:track:0z1b34WikhOH9ZxU8QDWcv
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzyfcys1aLM

An oldie but a goodie

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Hello everyone!

We recently implemented captions across most of Alpha Coders. So for the month of January we are doing a special raffle for captions!

Captions are a lot like names, but you have more room to go outside of the box. You can think of a clever name for the image, or describe it. We have two voting options for captions - accurate or funny - so you can submit captions that either accurately describe the image, or even make a clever joke about the image!

Let me know if you have any questions!

David West
Alpha Coders