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PHP Game Design

Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:35 am
by R4000
Would you be interested in a website that specialises in PHP Game Design.
Short Website Description:
PHPGameDesign.org would aim to provide help to the masses of people who want to create games in PHP, we would focus mainly on aiding others to produce games, building frameworks and maybe creating some in-house opensource games. Most support would be aimed at users who wish to create Text Based, MySQL powered games with unique aims. Support would also be provided for PHP driven flash games and using PHP as a backend/server for applications. PHPGameDesign.org also plans to have a selection of forums for users to aid other game designers. PHPGameDesign.org prospects about 10,000 views per day after 3 months of advertising and would be donation/advertisment funded. Currently the domain PHPGameDesign.org remains unregistered as I want to see what intrest there is in this project before i shell out cash on hosting and domains, then find out that nobody wants it! The whole site would have 3 tiers of administration, Administrators (hopefully around 5), Designers (registered game designers with proof of development) and Normal members.

Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:45 am
by Grim...
Would I have to pay to use it?
(I used to live near Cambridge).

Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:53 am
by R4000
Nah, i would NEVER make anybody pay for infomation on howto do stuff! xD

Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:12 am
by Gimpy
I'm interested.

Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:29 am
by Grim...
Does it exist anywhere, or is it just an idea?

Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:51 am
by R4000
its just an idea at the moment, but im buying the domain phpgamedesign.org

Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 11:15 am
by Grim...
/domain-squats...

;)

Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:54 pm
by R4000
heh, u can if u want :P

but ill just break in and take it off ya!!!! (kust kiddin)

Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 7:09 pm
by Charles256
i'm definitely interested.hurry up and get to work damn it! :-D

Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:00 am
by Maugrim_The_Reaper
No, not another game developer...;)

Assuming it's free I could be interested - I had a similar idea ages ago but limited time put it on the long finger. I've been spending a lot of my free private dev time working on a webgame in PHP (open source) and my involvement in the community over the past few years has demonstrated something like this is needed. At one point I even had a domain for the idea registered...

I think it's a good idea, because at the moment there is no real centre for PHP game developers, and it shows in the poor quality of most open source game projects I've seen get started. It's a bit weird when a buggy insecure PHP game can be ranked in the top ten (PHP/Turn-Based Categories) of Sourceforge afterall. Not pointing fingers at Phaos :), the game I mean is Solar Empire - it's very very insecure. I'm working on a fork, and before I completely hijack the thread...

Interested - give me a shout and maybe I can offer real help in between playing Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion...

Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 2:36 pm
by R4000
Hey all, the site is up... no content yet.

http://www.PHPGameDesign.org

what you think of style? I tried to get one that isn't really game based, but not really techy.

Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 2:41 pm
by neophyte
Nice design! However you should vaildate your code there are few minor problems... :roll:

Other than that I like it.

Good jerb!

Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:04 pm
by R4000
Heh, i don't do validating code... I think its a pointless task when even with 100% valid code it looks different on different browsers.... I code for it to look good on all browsers, not for it to validate :)[/rant]

Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:15 pm
by feyd
:roll:

Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:39 pm
by Roja
R4000 wrote:Heh, i don't do validating code... I think its a pointless task when even with 100% valid code it looks different on different browsers.... I code for it to look good on all browsers, not for it to validate :)[/rant]
Well, you just guaranteed I won't ever visit, and neither will the majority of the devs on Blacknova Traders, or the Yahoo blind gamers group, or...

Way to tell a huge potential part of your already tiny audience that you don't care!