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    Co-Founder / PGD Elder WILL's Avatar
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    Passing The Torch

    Hey everybody!

    Yup, it's true... I'm hanging up my Pascal crown.

    After 4+ years of doing everything that I do with PGD... It's time for me to move on to do my own thing. I've learn much from building and running the now biggest Pascal game programming community on the net. :thumbup: It definitely has been a great run, but alas, all good things come to an end.

    I'll be around handling some things still, just not on the same scale as once was. And once the PGD Annual is done I'll have officially completed my final duties and goals that I wanted to accomplish here.


    My greatest hope is that others will continue their efforts in making the Pascal and Object Pascal languages and all of the development tools that support these great languages ever more popular and push them into the mainstream as they used to be and will be again.

    That said Dom is going to need a new 'partner' [size=9px](or some partners)[/size] as it where to help him with PGD. A new 'me' as it were... [size=9px](:lol: good luck! )[/size]

    I may have a hand in helping out with that if I can. PGD is a larger community now and it is gaining popularity, especially during events like the 'PGD Annual' competitions. More help is required to help grow and maintain it's increased visitors and site members.

    New and existing tools like Free Pascal, Lazarus - Game Developers Edition and Chrome are opening opportunities for new platforms and mediums for making games using Object Pascal. Such ongoings need to be researched and made popular by way of news items, reviews and articles to get others interested.

    This stuff is not easy to do on your own. We are sort of pioneers for future generations of programmers who will either take up these projects or pass them buy. So we have to help each other out and work together if we want there to be something left to pass on.

    This has always been my vision of PGD the community.

    If there continues to be others that are willing to help build on top of what we have done here, I can see PGD lasting for years to come.
    Jason McMillen
    Pascal Game Development
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    Thanks for everything and good luck with your future endeavours.
    [size=10px]"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." -- Paul Dirac[/size]

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    Hey Jason!

    Sorry to hear that the community looses one of their "heads". But I am glad that the community had this head for some very nice years.

    I thank you very much for all you have done here. I know that there has been much enthusiasm and a lot of work in this.

    May you find a worthful successor...

    Thanks again and the best of luck to your future plans.

    Dirk
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    Thank you and good luck!

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    Passing The Torch

    Thanks for everything you did, and wish you all the best!
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    Don't be a stranger WILL. I wish you the best, of course, but it is always a sobering thing to see an administrator step down and pass the torch onwards.

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    I would also like to thank WILL for his tireless dedication to PGD and the Pascal gaming community! A lot of stuff you see before you would not be possible without WILL's energy! Even this year's competition has been largely handled by WILL. He is an asset to any team!

    Thanks again and we hope to see some of your game projects featured on the news page.
    <br /><br />There are a lot of people who are dead while they are still alive. I want to be alive until the day I die.<br />-= Paulo Coelho =-

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    You guys all do a wicked job on PGD. I hope this is able to continue even with you, Will, not quite as involved as you have been.

    All the best...
    The views expressed on this programme are bloody good ones. - Fred Dagg

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    Co-Founder / PGD Elder WILL's Avatar
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    Thanks guys!

    I'm glad to have had an impact.
    Jason McMillen
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    I've known for a while that you would be stepping down, but its still sad to see it actually happening.

    I hope this means you will have more time to make games for us
    William Cairns
    My Games: http://www.cairnsgames.co.za (Currently very inactive)
    MyOnline Games: http://TheGameDeveloper.co.za (Currently very inactive)

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