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[Santewi]

SickBoy, I thought it would be like this:

Game development
-Artistic section
-Technical section


Artistic would include modelling, texturing, level design, etc., and technical would include scripting, shaders (more complicated ones, not just diffuse+spec+normalmap) and so on.

Edit: to clarify, the "Game development" would be the, well, main(?) forum, with those two as subforums in the same way as General chat has Forum shop and Travian server as subforums.

Edited by Santewi, 14 April 2012 - 04:17 AM.

[GasTrox]

What if we finally make use of tags? I mean, within game development forum, each thread has its own tag (be it Technical, Programming, Art, whatever), and we don't have to make subforums, because, well, the whole site is full of them by now (which, btw, I think some should be removed).

[Santewi]

GasTrox, on 14 April 2012 - 11:12 AM, said:

What if we finally make use of tags? I mean, within game development forum, each thread has its own tag (be it Technical, Programming, Art, whatever), and we don't have to make subforums, because, well, the whole site is full of them by now (which, btw, I think some should be removed).

Well, you see, if the subforums for the Offtopic were removed, all those threads would be now in the main "Offtopic" forum, which would be crowded with stuff. I check the offtopic forums, but I'm not interested in anime, forum games or roleplaying at all, so now it would have all those. I think it's better to have the subforums to keep stuff organized.

[Thetruecrow]

I think sub forums are okay, but we really don't need subforums inside of subforums.

Off topic should be fine the way it is, but a lot of it isn't used anymore.

[GasTrox]

What I think should be removed is the freaking Plug subforums. The activity is nearly none and it wouldn't hurt anyone. Maybe merge it inside of another WoW forum, I don't know. Anyways, I digress. Just make the forum and we'll see later if it needs subforums or what.

[Neglected]

SickBoy, on 13 April 2012 - 08:31 PM, said:

Those are not common for game creation. C# is primarily for Xbox 360 development, although it is gaining popularity. C++ is still industry standard. HTML5 is still too new to be much of anything except a bunch of high concept shit.

Game development these days is all about C++, LUA (for modifications, not necessary actual development), and Java for Minecraft (primarily). You can toss Flash and any scripting language related to suites like RPG Maker and whatnot into the pot as well.

That's not to say they *can't* be made in other language, but a game development sub-forum would have +90% of its posts for C++.



But Nightbane is right: there is no point in arguing this. The question is whether to make a game development sub-forum (which I probably will), not whether I'm going to make a shitload of sub-forums for each programming language (which I definitely won't). A game development forum would include EVERYTHING... concepts, art, programming, audio... anything game-creation-related would be in that area.

Lua*

I'd be up for this. I'm really starting to learn industry standards for game programming now (which includes JSON/Protocol Buffers, C++, C#, Lua and Python), and I'd love to have a section dedicated to this.: P

[Santewi]

Nice, would be great if people who can actually code were interested in this Because with the minimal knowledge I have about coding that section would be pretty dead

[AngelSandy]

You need to take me in on that Neg.. ;_;
I can code too.. D:

[Santewi]

I like how this is coming along.

[SickBoy]

Forum added (and thread moved to it). I'll expand the forum as needed, but for now we will just have a single section. IF it gets popular, I will create sub-sections for things like releases, WIP, help wanted, LFW, programming, art, etc. Just depends on what seems to need a sub-section.