I have been working on a site for an all-adventure community. This site is mainly for finding downloads and archiving great software and all software in general related to Adventure Games. But its biggest feature is the social aspect of it and the development aspect of it. The site is a great portal for finding resources that will help in your game development and a great resource for finding the latest news and stuff. The site is a work in progress. But I need your help. I need you to check out the site and tell me what you think of it, what you would like to see/ what improvements I need to make and what would have you all keep coming to the site as a main Adventure resource site.
For now let me tell you the main features it has:
General site features:
You can translate the site into several languages.
You can bookmark the site to Google, yahoo, twitter, etc...
You can search the site.
Awards and Hall of Fame. HOF coming soon.
Store-- Coming soon.
Social features:
Forum
An IRC type chat engine built into the site itself.
Private Messaging
Users have a personal page
Users can have blogs.
Users can create and join User specific groups.
Resources:
Downloads(Games, engines, tutorials, etc...)
Wiki
WebLinks
Publish your game with us... Not yet implemented.
Fun:
Fan Fiction section
Fan art section to come soon.
Team Development:
Project starter/Personal Projects
Post a search for a team.
Profile/Profile Searching:
You can see your user page.
You can see your awards.
You can add what games your working on.
You can put in contact info.
You can tell us what your 10 favorite games are.
You can specify what skills you have and to what degree you can use them.
You can specify what languages you speak.
You can upload personal files.
You can have a user gallery showcasing your art work or art and images in general.
You can have a personal guest book for yourself.
AND THERE WILL BE MORE AS I GO.
A note about "Project Starter/Personal Projects". This is a great tool. You can create a project (Game, or Engine or whatever, as long as its adventure related). You can add users and give them permissions and access levels. Your project can have news and task assignments and a calendar. You also have a private forum just for your project members and more. Everything stays private or public depending on your settings. You can also upload your files. I feel that this is a great way to get Teams working and organized on projects.
What I will need from you:
I need input and suggestions. If I can have board moderators and even site administrators, that would help immensely. If you have resources, games, tutorials, artwork... ANYTHING that you can upload to the site, that would help content-wise. Bug-testing would also be a big help. Eventually Donations for server costs would be helpful as well. If you want to host specific sites for specific projects, such as RON or anything, that would also help with content and visitors. Also promote the site where you can.
Future items:
Shop
Hall of Fame
Adventure Top Sites
Anything you can think of.
Thanks all for listening and for your help. The site is http://www.adventurestockpile.com .
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Update 6/08/10:
Well, I updated the site with a better looking design, imo anyway, for adventure games. I have some downloads there, so you can check it out. Let me know what you think. The site is on a new server which will be shared with http://www.jediorder-swc.com and it allows for unlimited space and bandwidth. Enjoy. Thanks.
http://www.adventurestockpile.com
Joseph, this sounds amazing. I haven't looked at it yet, but from what you've written it sounds like a great project. I'll be happy to help in any way possible, either it be from general ideas to graphics and etc.
Good job man! I'll look at it as soon as I can.
Thank you! Also, keep in mind its a work in progress, so it will look undone and empty until more users are signed up, more downloads are available and some better graphics are present.
Thanks man!
If you don't recall me offering, I'd love to help out in any way too. Seems you have a great plan and idea there. :D
Update 6/08/10:
Well, I updated the site with a better looking design, imo anyway, for adventure games. I have some downloads there, so you can check it out. Let me know what you think. The site is on a new server which will be shared with http://www.jediorder-swc.com and it allows for unlimited space and bandwidth. Enjoy. Thanks.
http://www.adventurestockpile.com
There's a place to login but no way to register that I can find :(
S'okay.
Found it in the News and Articles section. which is an odd place to put registration form.
I have to modify the menu's a bit and re-organize them. Sorry about that. ;)
Okay. The menu's are fixed. All I have to do now is make the wiki work and get the memberlist to update correctly.
Anything else would just be a new feature that would be added.
Anyway, I added a few more downloads today. The total count for downloads is up to 60. Not that impressive, but I am hoping to get that number into the hundreds by the weekend. We also have several video tutorials and lots of web links that might actually surprise you. Right now the two big downloads available from the site is The new Adventures of Zak McKracken and Zak 2: Between Time and Space (German of course).
Enjoy. I will post more updates here.
I've seen the site by the way I have trouble re-uploading the game file, I can't find where exactly I do that, but it seems so full of things to explore!! :D
How big is the file you are trying to upload? The upload tool only takes files up to 64megs or less. The other big files I have on there I had to upload to an FTP Directory and then link it as a mirror.
I am going to eventually be creating or updating the tool to allow unlimited size downloads eventually. Are you trying to upload HG2G? I already put it in there, if thats the case.
Quote from: Joseph DiPerla on Wed 09/06/2010 01:12:29
How big is the file you are trying to upload? The upload tool only takes files up to 64megs or less. The other big files I have on there I had to upload to an FTP Directory and then link it as a mirror.
I am going to eventually be creating or updating the tool to allow unlimited size downloads eventually. Are you trying to upload HG2G? I already put it in there, if thats the case.
I know its uploaded,I just want to update it. Because I've changed it today (again).
LOL. I updated it 5 minutes before you posted this message.
Hmmm, this looks good.
However, I tried to register, got the email, clicked on the activate link and got the success message.
I then tried to login (from the original page), and it said that I haven't completed the registration process and should look in my mail. When I clicked on the activation link again it said that the activation link was already used...
I tried to refresh and login again and got the same message.
Also tried to re-register but it wouldn't let me cause the email is already taken.
So, in short, I'm stuck...
I see you as registered and approved. Try clearing the cache, going back to the site and logging in and you should be all set to go. Hopefully.
By the way, we have around 80 downloads so far and counting. By sundays end, I hope to have over 250. Look for older versions of AGS, some AGS game award winners, Garfield and some SCUMM/SCI/AGI stuff.
Quote from: tzachs on Fri 11/06/2010 23:33:55
Hmmm, this looks good.
However, I tried to register, got the email, clicked on the activate link and got the success message.
I then tried to login (from the original page), and it said that I haven't completed the registration process and should look in my mail. When I clicked on the activation link again it said that the activation link was already used...
I tried to refresh and login again and got the same message.
Also tried to re-register but it wouldn't let me cause the email is already taken.
So, in short, I'm stuck...
I'm in the same boat...
Hmmm. I need to look into that. I will report back soon.
Ok, I figured out where the problem is. Now I Gotta fix it.
Ok, try now.
Thanks, it works now :)
A small comment: I looked at the statistics and saw 0 males. So I thought, cool, I'll update my profile and be the first male!
Only I didn't find anywhere to update your sex...
Yeah, I might have accidentally removed that statistic from the profiles. I will put that back in there soon.
OK, thats fixed too. Just go into your profile and select your Sex.
(http://www.screen7.co.uk/junc/yoursex.jpg)
Nice design, hoping for some content soon 8)
Yeah, right now I got some videos and lots of downloads. I am working on adding that sort of content first and then I will add some of my own blogs and reviews and such.
For those of you following, I have updated to the latest CMS version, so the site should be faster and secure. I also got the chat working again and the memberlist is working properly as well. More stuff to be done. Keep watching.