Looks snazzy, but.. but.... where are the graphical resources? I am having trouble importing these text-based resources into my preferred game making engine of choice!
Seriously though, is that section just not up yet? It doesn't have to be RPG Maker-centric. Even just a giant pot of various graphics would be pretty neato. After all, that's what brought me to GW way back in '02. I came for the pretty pictures.
read the op.
You know what would be dandy? A forum skin to match the colour and feel of the new main site. This skin could become "GW Classic" or something along those lines.
theres this handy thing called the mod forum perhaps you should take a look........
rpgmaker suck but I really like to see a huge archive or section for games just like the old times
other sites do this; use them. this isn't going to be an rpg maker site again.
-When you click on a link to a post generated by a quote tag, you get the "The topic or board you are looking for appears to be either missing or off limits to you." error.
this is unavoidable, since your posts are stored in hidden forums, but we're working on a way to integrate quotes into the comment system in a better way. if we did this, the links would obviously be removed.
-It would be nice to have a "PREVIEW" option before you submit an article.
yeah, this is also at the TOP OF THE LIST of things we want to work in very soon.
-Are articles still linked to the forum in the way that the blog posts were?
-What forum tags don't work in the comments?
the articles are still linked, and all forum tags should work as a result since comments are forum posts. don't use dohtml tags.
Wasn't something already done to allow for submitted resources? Wouldn't it be easy just to toss that into the system since it's already done? Or did you decide not to do that since we didn't get that many resources?
probably, but that thing was a piece of shit. also, it was decided bu a bunch of us that it was lame and served no purpose to have the same resources a ton of other rpg maker sites have, and have had for years now. it's lame, offers nothing over the numerous other rpg maker sites, and we do not want to be your #1 source for chipsets. like i said, the only way we would do graphic resources would be if they were non-maker specific and were either exclusive to gw or incredibly rare.
Also, a while back there was an enormous effort to find all of the games we used to store at GW. Where did they end up? I really miss having that games list. Finding games on the forums is hard to do. Currently my best source is rpgmaker.net, which luckily is keeping track of things.
95% of them sucked, so they're gone forever. we're not going to have a colossal, comprehensive list of every trashy game made; it's just not the idea. as you said, rmn does this, so if this is what you would want, they are your best bet. we are taking a wider focus on indie games in general, and only posting reasonably good ones.
The front page feels a bit too wordy for me, which pushes me off a bit from it. If we're looking to attract new members, what they see first is very important. I'd suggest shortening up the page so that you don't have to scroll at all, and do that by decreasing the amount of text shown (or something). I like the stuff on there, just now how it shows up.
the entire site is based around articles. if the front page is too wordy for them, i don't think the rest of the site will appeal to them much, either. it's four featured articles with big headlines giving a general idea of the articles, and a small paragraph underneath giving a more detailed description of the content. i honestly do not know how much more basic this could be made, and i am inclined to say i don't want to cater to a bunch of people who apparently find big titles and 100 words "too wordy".
It's hard to find the forums. I don't like having to click an extra button to get there. I'm lazy. (of course, I have it book marked, but still) I'm just complaining now.
yeah, we need to add a link to the forums on the main page. it'll probably go under the banner.
I will admit, I was very underwhelmed looking at it. After seeing all the hype, I was expecting more. Though now that we have something, we also have something we can expand.
what hype? the development was kept pretty much UNDER WRAPS until i posted this topic. to reiterate, this isn't whatever gw you've heard about. it was conceived about two months ago as an idea, so unless you have heard tons of hype in the last sixty days about a site most people did not even know was being made, i do not think the hype applies to this version.
man that menu thing is messed up. I know why its happening, maybe if i get an hour this weekend ill re-code that properly (its using javascript for image rollovers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!).
this is what happens when you don't have a web developer....
I've noticed that our "real name" is shown in comments, rather than our current forum name.
Will this be changed.
Also, is there a way to change your "real name" or would that mess up the database or something.
it's not a priority. it bothered me with the staff, so i changed steel's real name, but the site still displays it as dangerousned regardless of the fact that it's not anymore, so it might not even do any good to begin with. this really only applies to the staff, since they're the only ones i care about this with, but we'll look into it eventually.
Why can't you just change the skin of the website to match the forum?
because the forum skin looks kind of boring and default, and i think most people would prefer the mainsite's color scheme, if only for a change of pace.
ps PAY NO MIND if this post is brusque. i'm worn out, is all.
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