The Power of Pride Bundle Team appreciates your trust in us as Pride Month rolls ever closer. We tried to be as thorough as possible on the main jam page, but if you have a question that wasn't answered there, please feel free to ask here! Chances are that someone else may be wondering the same thing.
Alternatively, if you would like to ask a question privately, you can email us at powerofpridebundle@proton.me with a subject line starting with "[PoP2026 Question]". Thank you!
Hi, I was wondering how you judge financial need, since I didn't notice anything in the form, and it's not always obvious from social media etc. In my case I would want to get across that my financial need is relatively *low* as queer game devs go, the money would definitely be useful but my basic needs are all met.
Hi Spiral Atlas! This is BáiYù of tofurocks here. The last question in Section 02 is "Would you like to opt in to receive revenue from the bundle? If you opt out of receiving funds, you understand that you are waiving all financial compensation and this decision cannot be reversed." If you answered No to this question, then the form will not lead you to Section 03 which will ask "How do you intend to use funds raised from the bundle? Please write in as little or as much as you would like."
Reasonable answers to the Section 03 question are generally something like "Gas for my car is expensive where I live, so this will help me get to work," "I'll use it for groceries," or "I'd like to upgrade my drawing tablet." I hope this gives an idea of the types of answers we get and usually approve!
WAIT. I MISREAD OPT IN AS OPT OUT AND ACCIDENTALLY OPTED OUT. I AM A DUMBASS. Ok that is absolutely on me, I'll send an email to discuss it but I guess worst case I am helping other potentially poorer queer people make ends meet haaa. Good thing I asked, and thanks for getting back to me so quickly, or I'd have had an awkward surprise later on!
"For Zines, Tabletop Rulebooks, and other files delivered in .pdf format that are not considered Books/Novels, pages of the work must be customized to a certain degree (something like Arial text on plain white pages is considered not customized)."
1. Can I get some clarity on what the aim of this rule is?
2. How could someone who DID have a draft that was, to use your example, Arial text on plain white pages potentially alter it to be acceptable for submission?
Hey aliengeometries, this is BáiYù of tofurocks here.
Not to be autistic and overly literal, but I think I need more clarification or examples here of what "customization" means to you. I guess my actual zine has body text in Georgia, but I can't add borders without compromising my design, both aesthetically and in the technical sense that it's optimized for home print, so I would have to add the borders to the active printing area and therefore resize or remove images and significantly rearrange the text to accommodate them. Do images count? Does visibly intentional text formatting, such as footnotes, count?
As this is a collection of short stories, it would fall under our Books/Novels rule, which does not require individual pages of the work to be customized to a high degree.
By the way, we wanted to note that the name of the pdf has a (2) in the file, so it's "Life's a Zoo (2).pdf" rather than "Life's a Zoo.pdf", which seems unintentional just in case you wanted to fix that!
I’d like to submit to this with my Bonus Pack which released in 2023. It includes a steam key if you manually build the bundle.
My question is, would it be possible to get an exception to submit my older game “He Fucked The Girl Out of Me” with it as well as it is meant to be an artbook for that game?
Thank you all for putting the bundle together!
I have a question about licensing. The music I’m using in a potential entry has seemingly contradictory licensing requirements when I go around to the musician’s various websites. I will replace the music if I can’t get the terms cleared up. That change would be done by June.
If I don’t submit to the bundle early, there’s an uncomfortably high chance I won’t return to the entry form until April. So do I submit the project now, or I should I wait until I’m completely confident about all the licensing terms?
Hello Acin, this is BáiYù of tofurocks here. It's unfortunate when assets don't have clear licensing and out of an abundance of caution, I might suggest submitting a secondary project that you're more confident about just in case you're unable to find replacements for those music tracks. Worst case scenario, drop us an email so we can figure out what to do for you.
Thank you.
Status: I’m on the search for appropriate public domain music. After I cancelled my application and posted here, the music creator returned my message that the song (under CC BY 4.0) may not be used for any game, which along with the supposed musician’s Q&A specifically encouraging game use has me questioning if the other side is only spitting out chatbot answers sans awareness of what the English-language statements mean.
This experience has me sore about using audio for anything published. I’ll make ebooks out of my games to reduce risks for the bundle.
Uh oh, that doesn't sound right! Can we ask what browser you're using? Most of the moderation team is using Firefox or a variant of that, and we just found the official CryptPad FAQ that has a list of extensions that may break the website. After you've taken some of their recommended steps, try this link below one more time:
https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/YCmnVL1L4FGVcMB8Iz7mXGynikk7tPsK3buRxtdqT...
If that doesn't work, shoot us an email and we'll see if we can get a workaround going for you.
Hi Team Boke, thanks for your patience!
Filling out the CryptPad form and submitting your project(s) to the jam is everything required from your part at this time. Both appear to be done, so that should be good. Once the "jam" is over, we will be manually reviewing all of the submissions. If your submission is approved for the bundle, you will be informed via email with next steps. We anticipate this happening around the 3rd week of April.
The latest Public Updates post brought up another question from me.
For representation: I interpreted that area’s description on the form as asking about minority ethnic or disability representations as expressions of queerness.
I didn’t count characters who’re depicted only as queer PoC or disabled but not queer in ways specific to being PoC or disabled.
Is that how representation on the form was meant to be interpreted?
We appreciate you thinking deeply about the representation in your game. The form's purpose was more general - "Does your project feature lesbians?," "Does your project feature people with x disability?," etc.
There's no need to resubmit if you don't want to, but if you truly feel the need to re-do the form to clarify the representation in your content then let us know via email so we can track down your first application and make a note.
Abashed to be asking this again, but I'm getting the same error: trying to fill out the "Social Media Post Form" and "Streamer & Press Contact Form" you emailed us, and Cryptpad is just giving me a "this account was deleted due to inactivity" error. Previously some combination of turning off my VPN and checking for Firefox updates fixed this, I have no idea why, but those aren't working this time. Are there any alternative methods of taking care of this step?
Hi Rob, we answered your email but for anyone else encountering this issue, here's what we wrote:
We haven't seen this error message before but we can confirm that the CryptPad account that the PoP Bundle Team is using is certainly still active. If you use a few extensions on Firefox, check this official FAQ for things that may not play well with the site: https://docs.cryptpad.org/en/FAQ.html
If the issue persists, please let us know and we can send you the questions and input your answers for you.
