Flixel Fundraiser Credits

[larsiusprime]

• [ ] Create a list of backers from the fundraiser
• [ ] Include it in flixel core somehow
• [ ] Make it 100% opt-in, hidden behind a define (FLX_BACKERS ?)
• [ ] Make it simple, easily formattable, & configurable by the developer
• [ ] Optionally create a FlxCredits demo, and/or FlxCredits class for flixel-addons

Here's a rough sketch of what the implementation might look like:

Class FlxBackers
{
   public var listSansHeaders(get, null):Array<String>;    //just names, no headers
   public var listWithHeaders(get, null):Array<String>;    //names & headers
   public var headers(get, null):Array<String>;            //just headers, no names
   public function getList(headers:Bool):Array<String>;    //function that does the work of getting the names
   public function getSection(name:String):Array<String>;  //function that gets just one section by header name
}

The data itself would look something like this:

With headers:

["#Super Funders","John","Jane","#Funders","Alice","Bob"]

Sans headers:

["John","Jane","Alice","Bob"]

Just one section ("Super Funders"):

["John","Jane"]

[larsiusprime]

Here's the current credits list:

https://gist.github.com/larsiusprime/27257c67f736758344ce0f4ba7ea0116

[Tembac]

Shouldn't it include the HaxeFlixel team and Openfl team credits in case we wanted to include you in our games? Is there any other way to give the tools teams credit?

[Gama11]

That's a bit tricky actually, who do you consider to be part of the HaxeFlixel team? The members of the GitHub organization? There are people who contributed a lot, but aren't part of that. However, you probably wouldn't want to include all 92 contributors (not to mention other repos) either...

[Tembac]

I think that the top 10 or 20 contributors deserves credit. You are the people doing almost all the work here.

[Gama11]

That's the problem though - where's the cut-off point? There will always be some contributor who just barely didn't make the list and might be upset about that.

[Tembac]

Why wouldn't you want to include the 92? If we are going to include all the backers, 92 contributors is not that different.

[MSGhero]

I don't think any contributors should be published. That seems weird, I wouldn't want my +- 1400 in the credits of someone's game.

[Gama11]

A bit late for this now...