New forum suggestion

[Pumaman]

Ok, I've created the new forum.

All tech forum moderators, please move any solved threads with useful answers to this new forum once they have run their course in the main forum.

[Evil]

I think it is good idea all around. Do we want to move the Tutorials thread there too?

[Andail]

This forum will work until it gets so big that nobody knows what's covered there and what isn't, and people won't bother to check all the threads, thus will once again ask questions already answered

[Evil]

Why dont we start a thread with a list. All of the threads are listed by number (title by number) and there is a list in a stickied thread of what is covered by what number. They could be aranged by what the subject is, give a description and then give the number. Then you go to the thread with the right number. Maybe even links if we wanted.

[remixor]

I think this is an excellent forum.  I can already tell it's going to be really helpful as long as people actually check there.  I do see Andail's point, however, and Evil's suggestion is a good one assuming there's someone to actually maintain such a list.

All in all a good idea as long as it's kept managable.

[magintz]

I think the website idea is better. i think it would be cool to have it like the games page and we could have categories for the type of resource e.g art, scripts, code, templates etc...

Sounds like a good idea, and I offer my assistance in moderating this new system, whatever it is.

[remixor]

I think that no matter what the solution is, it should center around a forum (even there's some sort of list or index somehwere else).  The reason for this is that websites almost ALWAYS just stop getting updated.  For proof of this, check most AGS-related websites that aren't the official AGS website.  No matter how many times people say "I'll keep it updated!" it eventually just dies.  Forums, on the other hand, are visited by all of us constantly and there's no reason they would fall out of use.  Also, they're much easier to find for newbies, who are the people who could theoretically benefit most from such a forum.

[Matt Brown]

is this forum going to have moderators?

[remixor]

It doesn't need moderators, since nobody can post new threads in it.  The moderators from the tech forum just move threads over.

[Migs]

I think the website idea is better. i think it would be cool to have it like the games page and we could have categories for the type of resource e.g art, scripts, code, templates etc...

Sounds like a good idea, and I offer my assistance in moderating this new system, whatever it is.

Yes, I will supervise also.  I'm good at delegating responsibility to others, so somebody make me an AGS mod so I can help.  :

[Matt Brown]

ah, remix0r, didnt notice that. I guess that was a dumb question then.


I like this idea, hope it works out

[OneThinkingGal and ._.]

Glad people like it. ._.

About the whole it'll be too big thing. Well, first I don't think this will be a 'newbie' forum per se. Newbies who are too lazy to search will always post questions. People with half a brain tho, will go look in the forum to see if anyone has done it before, better, or differently.  

I kind of see it as similar to the microsoft knowledge base. That's huge, there's no way you could go through it all reading. But you can always search it. Programmers, being the geeks we are, read it randomly or sometimes sequentially as well, just to keep stuff in mind for future reference. Its just good to have solutions that you know are working solutions in one place.

Oh yeah, evil's suggestion is good too, as long as someone competent is in charge of the list. I don't think every thread on the forum can be on the list, but something like an FAQ maybe.

[InCreator]

Some ideas here, too. Like translations - from time to time someone asks for translations for a game. A new forum topic is usually created, there always some AGSers who'll like to help and in a week or so it travels into history of this forum.... Until new AGS game developer asks for a new one. Why couldn't there be something like 'Translations' corner where are all games listed, which currently need translations - maybe with their text dump files, too. It's pretty obivious that no developer would wait for new translators forever and every game has some kind of a "translate deadline" after which the game will be taken down from the list. At the moment, forum topics  about this stay there forever (or at least too long). This could be a systematized (uh..) thing about translating games. But this was only an example - we could have such "corners" about many other things.
And posting there could be somehow controlled/limited too - because there's too much cases where someone asks for something (like translation) then few guys offer help and third one says "you from Taleban" or something like that and that gives hundreds of offtopic posts about politics in middle east - so topic starter can only dream about translations he needed.

Just maybe I'm not a person to say this, but this forum & site is a bit more than a place to download and learn about AGS. It feels more like an adventure game developers home or something like that. So - there's millions of things CJ could pull out from resources page and make "mainstream" - like have a page for free (donated) characters and other things like that.
But then we start to call it AGC... Adventure Gamers Central... and this is something CJ probably wouldn't want, right?

After all, he has a lots of work to do without these ideas - we're all impatiently waiting for new releases of AGS and planning to write our testaments to his name. God bless the Chris...

Uh, just noticed that my english is bad as hell - hope someone understood what i was trying to say (sorry).