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.
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