Mobile Competition Submission Deadline: Q&A Support

[PablosCorner]

Hey Creators!

With the Mobile Competition submission deadline just around the corner, we want to make sure you have all the support you need to get your worlds submitted on time.

Important Reminders:

• Submission Deadline: May 8, 2025 @ 11:45pm (PT) / 1:45am (CT) / 2:45am (ET)
• Make sure to review the official competition rules and guidelines before submitting your world
• If you encounter any technical issues during submission, please let us know ASAP so we can assist you
  
  

To help with any last-minute questions or concerns, we're creating this thread as a dedicated space for you to ask anything related to submitting your worlds for the competition.

💭 Whether you're wondering about:

• Technical questions and troubleshooting
• Submission guidelines and requirements
• Or anything else that's on your mind
  

Critical Warning: Publishing a World as Non Discoverable and then switching to Discoverable Automatically Enables Members Only Option in the Desktop Editor

Please be aware that there is currently a bug in the Desktop Editor which can have implications when publishing your world. 

If you have published your world, with Discoverable set to off, setting Discoverable to on in the Publishing modal in the Desktop Editor will automatically switch Members-Only to on. 

Please make sure that you switch Members-Only to off before you publish your update, as judges will not be able to judge your world if it is set to Members-Only, and it must be available to play on mobile.

If you are impacted by this issue please alert us as soon as possible in the submission thread.

Good luck with your submissions, and we look forward to seeing your amazing creations!

Post Your Questions Below!

[InaCentaur]

it would be nice to see a screenshot preview of your world tbh, instead of an image that doesn't look like it at all. 

[SlayTheGameDev]

Hey, was hoping to clear something up. I've seen a couple others in Discord ask something similar

The FAQ for the competition says:

Can I continue to work on my world after it’s submitted?
Before the competition deadline, you may continue working and update your submission on Devpost. However, once the competition deadline has passed, do not make any modifications to your world. Worlds that are modified after the submission deadline may be disqualified.

As soon as the competition winners have been announced on or before June 30th, 2025, you can publish updates to your world.

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Which has me wondering, is it alright & safe to load into our world in the editor, so long as we do not publish any updates?

I've seen a couple of submissions that were published on May 8th, but have an "Updated" timestamp of May 10th or May 11th. Not necessarily from even making changes to the world, but because this timestamp automatically updates whenever the editor auto-saves (which happens every couple minutes..)

The timestamp I'm referencing:

Thank you!

[stormingdecker]

Interesting point, Slay. Cause yeah, I have certainly opened my world again this weekend in the DE to check on a few things I was wondering about, but did not publish any updates to it.

As you say, I also see the DE auto-saves do update the timestamp, as per the screenshot below.

I don't expect people running the contest to be pedantic enough to disqualify people for clicking (even accidentally) on their world in the DE without publishing any updates, but I do understand the urge to double-check. 😅

[InaCentaur]

afaik a ton of entries are getting silently disqualified due to the members only world bug. 

many of us weren't aware that it kept auto-defaulting to that even after we explicitly set it to public.

you can update your devpost link with yet another duplicated world link, but that won't update the link the judge sees, which might have been your original buggy members only world

judges (to us mere members, these are like super-user people) should be able to view a world regardless of its members only status...

but the fact that they have this bug right at deadline seems like an unfair form of entry weeding. 😞 

[stormingdecker]

@InaCentaur I was able to see your world just fine ("grow homes dp cloned again"), but yeah the publish timestamp on it is May 9th.
Have you been in touch with the dev team on that? I know they posted a "if something went wrong, please reach out" call to creators, and I'm curious if you had any traction.

I did encounter exactly the issue you faced, but I hit it midway through the contest for the Feedback Festival in April. I had to clone my world and delete the old one, and managed to slide that under the door a hour before the deadline when a friend of mine told me they couldn't see the world and I realized how that toggle had hosed me.

Am truly hoping it all gets sorted out and everyone at least has an opportunity to be fairly judged if they had a world out in time. 🙏