If you're not familiar with the concept, click the link in my signature.
At the moment, it's so under-developed that I almost feel ashamed for all the important entries I've missed out.
If you have a good suggestion on how to improve it, reply here.
Otherwise, what I mainly need now is contributions. Just PM me an entry that you think is important enough to be in the only AGS-community-terms compilation out there.
Please feel free to rewrite already existing entries. Many of the current articles are far too brief.
Some guidelines for entries:
* Keep it eloquent and pertinent. Use very subtle humour if any. The more high-brow lingo, the better. Don't be affraid to be lengthy; the current average article length is far too short.
* Personal entries should concern people who've done extra efforts to help/improve the community. Game-creators will have priority, as well as historically important members before currently active. If the person have been member for less than a year, they might not be relevant enough. This is just a rough measurement, though.
* Games need to have been somehow groundbreaking for the time of their release, or specially nominated/rewarded/reviewed, etc.
* The articles can be slightly argumentative, albeit not apparantly subjective/biased.
* Write about anything that concerns the history of AGS, the community, the various "companies", the zines, the in-jokes or set expressions, basically anything you can come up with.
* Don't write about yourself or your own creations
* Please include pictures.
* Check spelling before sending.
Contributors will be credited on the page.
I look forward to reading your articles!
An easy-to-update, user-submitted, PHP-based version of the dictionary, a wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki) for those of you who know what one of them is, would be a good idea... If CJ were willing to provide the database connection details, we could have a wiki that connected to the forums so that people who were registered on the forums could add to and update the wiki...
Still, I'd prefer some sort of editor, so that there is a certain quality of the articles.
[self criticism]This is also why I encourged people to modify the already existing entries. [/self criticism]
Can I write an article on ultimo?
Edit: Sorry, I was up till 3 am last night, can't see straight.
Not if you can't even spell 'write' properly, no.
How about LucasFan's 250,000+ downloaded game/remake of Maniac Mansion? Even played by thee Ron Gilbert.
Perhaps it would be cool to be able to submit suggestions but instead of them going straight into the dictionary database, they can be seleted, sorted and edited by someone, or some people, before going on it? :D
Well.. I like the idea of a Wiki.. As I believe they CAN be moderated..
Also.. It's LilGryphMaster (Little Gryph Master) Where did Gryphon come from? :-p But if you want to follow suit you can just label me as "Edmark, Andrew"
I would like to see it indexed in some categories (i.e. person, game, editor-related, netspeak, etc). That way one could for instance quickly look up all games that made it into the dictionary.