Guild Wars 2

I’m thinking of boosting this API while it’s young, and what’s better than a coding contest. The problem is in the prize pool. I want to gather a significant prize pool, preferably at least 1000$. Given the size of the GW2 playerbase, that’s a small amount. However I want to do this in a way that’s, for lack of a better word, unscammable. I’m fine with using my own paypal as the in between account, but most other people probably aren’t and I understand that.

So, suggestions needed on how to do this properly. Is there a good and honest way for such things already available?

My suggestion would be to try and convince an ANet employee (for reputability, perhaps another community leader) to launch something like kickstarter. Kickstarter itself cannot be used for contests, but maybe a similar site can be used.

OP, I don’t understand what your goal is in hosting a contest. Could you explain a bit more?

Killer Rhino.6794:

OP, I don’t understand what your goal is in hosting a contest. Could you explain a bit more?

I’d like to host a contest that has people make a piece of software based on the api. The one voted best by the community would win. Given a neat cash prize, I’d presume some nice things would be made by the better coders of the community.

Because I’m not a good enough programmer myself, it would be my way of supporting the api, to make awesome stuff happen. It’s literally the first thing I thought of when this forum sprung up.

Mathemagician.1836:

My suggestion would be to try and convince an ANet employee (for reputability, perhaps another community leader) to launch something like kickstarter. Kickstarter itself cannot be used for contests, but maybe a similar site can be used.

I would love that, they’re free to contact me at any time.

Usually you would start a content to make people contribute, but if you look closely on day 3 of the API, there are already a lot people working on things, so a contest does not really make sense to motivate them (they are already motivated).

Also, while this first release of the API is definitely nice, it’s still not much and the possibilities what to do with them will be reached rather quickly. So I would suggest you bring this topic up again, when we have more interesting API access.

poke.3712:

Usually you would start a content to make people contribute, but if you look closely on day 3 of the API, there are already a lot people working on things, so a contest does not really make sense to motivate them (they are already motivated).

Also, while this first release of the API is definitely nice, it’s still not much and the possibilities what to do with them will be reached rather quickly. So I would suggest you bring this topic up again, when we have more interesting API access.

I will keep that in mind. Maybe I’ll revive this in a month or two, if API development slows down (hope not)