Plantform specific discussions?

Boysano

Hi, hope this is correct place to post.

I'd like to suggest a few more categories for this forum since it is growing so fast...like platform specific and art specific.
Will help like minded (local) individuals to network...

Category suggestions:
"Suggestions"
"Game Maker"
"Unity"
"Construct"
"UDK", etc
"2D art"
"3d art"
etc

dislekcia

The general idea is that if a particular area of discussion (whatever that might be) overwhelms the forum to the extent that people are complaining about not being able to find other discussions, it'll get its own category.

Creating categories that then sit almost empty is designing a system that makes a place feel useless. We had that problem showcased all too well with the old SAGD forum.

So if you'd like those categories, start threads that would eventually need to be in them, then make those threads totally badass so everyone posts there :)

Elyaradine

Plantform-specific discussions sounds awesome.

Boysano

challenge accepted

dislekcia

Elyaradine said:

Plantform-specific discussions sounds awesome.

Does Vine Form count? Because Earthmother-based healthmonsters are always fun to play :)

edg3

We should totally have a game dev discussion where responses take 9 seconds or less to type/say :P

Boysano

i'm glad to see the "plantform" topic works as a marketing tool for this topic.

I like your idea @edg3 and even think a insit chat system can work, but maybe it should be limited to word count and not time?
how fast can you type...or is that part of the meta game - the higher level you are the faster you can type..

Boysano

I'd like a focus group on Game Maker...locally...instead of creating a SA group at the GMC.

Karuji

Kinda curious what you would want to talk about with regards to GM, and why it would need an entire section as opposed to a singular thread ;)

Boysano

I'd like to talk about it with locals mostly, instead of just random strangers internationally, which i also will do in any case. if not why not.

I see GMS plans to completely revamp their surface drawing and GUI screen drawing now to make it cross platform generically in the engine. I like the tech blogs of mike daily, so that is a good place to start

I know there was a past thread, but it is a mess trying to find info in it and reply to it in a contextual way...since it becomes a thread covering many topics in GMS and GML...maybe that is just how my mind works.

Karuji

Threads tend to end up like conversations IRL. You start talking about one thing and then move on to another. If you find a certain post pertinent you can bookmark it in your browser, and use the quote functionality to continue talking about it at another point in time.

I mostly work with GMS, and have written a couple of my own 'tools' to solve some problems I found the editor particularly obtuse in dealing with.

I'll go rez on of the GM threads later, and post what/why I did in it.

Bensonance

@Boysano

Just post a new thread every time you have a GM:S oriented thought :). As a GM fanboy myself, I'll be guaranteed to comment : P.

Karuji

I just rezzed one of the GM threads for some discussion with one of my recent GM problems (I could probably keep the Pandawlf blog rather frequently updated with the GM fixes I come up with)

Boysano

What are all your GMS usernames?
I'd like to friend you and support your forum topics there as well.

Karuji

Karuji. I don't really ever post on GMC. When I do it's normally to tell YoYo they are doing something stupid like not freeing the memory that screen_save() uses once it is done saving the .png file. (Which was really fun since it lead to zX crashing at rAge due to a memory leak)

SkinnyBoy

@Boysano I don't fit into any of categories you mentioned. I prefer using SDK's instead of pre built engines, so that will be discriminating to me because I wouldn't know where to put my post.

tbulford

Was disappointed that this was not a thread about different platforms for game development. Just saying.

Boysano

@SkinnyBoy - my point was to have categories for all, even SDKs or whatever, the power that be say they want more content for specific topics before they receive that achievement, so I think you misunderstand my intent. I'm actually just trying to make more GM buddies, since Unity has taken over haha

@tbulford - good point, kept the title for authenticity of topic content replies...always wanted to see a bonzai desktop pet game, that takes lots of years weeks to grow

[Edit] at this rate all I will achieve is a "Plantform Specific" category unlock

tbulford

@Boysano may bad didn't even notice the typo in Plantform that's probably because I make so many typos myself they just skipped.