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The bounty hunting page instructs "If you want to help, you can create a new project then from this project's "manage game" page you can overwrite it with a copy of the official project you want to work on", so I did that, and now I have a copy of Hearts that I can modify - great, but on closer inspection of the game's code, I saw that I also overwrote every instance of "Hearts" with "TutorialHeartsAdmiral". Which screws up the variable names, and also gives me fun error messages like '${player_name} gets all tutorialheartsadmiral and the Queen of Spades: everyone else loose 26 points!' Sure, I could just do a Find and Replace on each file, but is there a proper set of steps to make a modifiable copy of an existing game without causing that problem in the first place?

Well, a project is a bunch of text files, so indeed copying a project with a new name relies on renaming files and replacing text
For most games the project name is distinctive and this goes smoothly, but indeed for some games with a more generic name, it can be messy. The worse I have seen was the "Toc" project...

Can you at least put a disclaimer on the Bounty Hunting page, so future contributors don't get caught unawares?

admiralspunky wrote: ↑02 February 2021, 19:13 Can you at least put a disclaimer on the Bounty Hunting page, so future contributors don't get caught unawares?

Actually that was the reason for mentioning "or request access to the official project from studio@boardgamearena.com in some special cases" I think