Scirra_Tom

Here in the UK I was under the impression that to claim that products are on sale, you should show the previous price and should have been selling at that price for a meaningful period of time.

It appears to be rampant practise on Steam to list an item and put it on sale almost immediately. I understand why sellers do this to attract more attention to the product, but ultimately I don't think it genuinely serves sellers and buyers positively.

Just a small idea I've had, and can't find anything similar except for specific boycotts.

A browser plugin that:

- Users submit boycotts (eg "Evil Corp Boycott" which has 100 websites listed) - Browser plugin users sign up to boycotts - Anytime you browse a website in one of the boycott lists it asks you if you want to continue, or visit an alternative page - Could even extend cleverly into product listings (EG "Evil Chocolate Corp" products on Amazon are obscured)

Boycott as a service if you will! If users wish to go to an alternative, perhaps there's some referral bonus you can get to monetise the plugin.

Boycotts never seem to be effective as it takes education, conscious effort and meaningful numbers. If this sort of plugin got enough reach I think it solves a lot of those issues.

For this years Global Game Jam, we're doing an open access period for Construct 3: https://editor.construct.net/

Construct 3 runs in the browser, we've written all the JS code ourselves and it's packed full of interesting tech we think HN would be interested in! Our latest beta introduced Z elevation which can do cool effects such as: https://twitter.com/LastMoonGame/status/1086920331443474433

To help give a little back, we're also donating $10 to the charity Special Effect (https://www.specialeffect.org.uk/).

Making a full game engine run in the browser was a huge challenge, but we think we've nailed it! If you're looking for a game engine to use this GGJ we'd love you to consider Construct 3. Happy to answer any questions if anyone has any!

Max 500 games