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    New forums (was 'Game design forum')

    How's about a forum related to games design. The non-technical side of things. A place where people could talk about game mechanics but not so much the code stuff. People could post on what makes games fun and why certain mechanics work and others don't and this would help other people with their own designs.
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    New forums (was 'Game design forum')

    Sounds like a pretty good plan to me. We'll have to be careful about the amount of forums, though, since they seem to be growing exponentially :shock: ...
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    New forums (was 'Game design forum')

    Hmmmm, it's a difficult one alright. I know what you mean, Alimonster, I do seem to be using the purple scrollbar a lot more lately!

    A game design forum would be excellent, but I don't know if it's what DGDev is here for (memo to self - must find out what DGDev is here for :? ). The obvious difference between somewhere like GameDev's forums and here is that we only use Delphi/Kylix so the emphasis is on programming. What I'm trying to say (semi-conscious semi-drunk) is that game design isn't bound to any one language/IDE but game implementation is.

    I think we've got most things covered and I don't expect the number of forums to increase much more. It's mainly the game libraries and components category that's seen the most growth

    Personally, I don't have a problem with having a Game Design forum. In fact if we were voting (and I have a feeling we will be), I'd vote for it. There's a great community thing going on here and if we want to talk about game design then being Delphi fans shouldn't stop us :twisted:.

    I'm just not sure where to draw the line. I'd like to hear what y'all think out there in Delphi land.

    [EDIT]Sorry about that - I don't get access to alcohol much these days so when I do it's like I'm 14 again [/EDIT]

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    New forums (was 'Game design forum')

    I think it would be a great idea!

    Designing games is often a big problem and bad design often the most common reason (in my case at least) to quit working on a game. Delphi is the tool to build stuff with but we also need a design to design what to build... I'm not sure but a Delphi design might be different from a C / C++ design or a VB design.

    I would vote for one too
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    New forums (was 'Game design forum')

    Not sure if its exactly game desing but what I find frustrating is running into spagetti code after a month or two of working on a game.

    I'd like to see discussions on how to create classes that support the adhoc development of games. What and how to structure classes, properties and methods.
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    New forums (was 'Game design forum')

    Here's an opinion from the new guy - I think that it would not only do the site some justice(This a community or learning enviroment for Delphi Game Developers, right?), but it would allow us Pascal-Inclined programmers to discuss gamming issues here instead of some other C forums. Why not make this a complete site for us Pascalians to gather here to discuss game development issues instead of having only GameDev.net? I think it would be nice to read a tutorial or discuss programming issues in pure Delphi terms rather than have to translate what someone is trying to explain in C(most really don't know any Pascal!). I would much rather come here and read tutorials geared for Pascal than a C tutorial on some other those other sites or end up having to translate it and bug fix the things that don't translate well.

    It would be nice to have a bigger Delphi community than what exists now. The more of us that come here and post and contribute the better, I say.
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    New forums (was 'Game design forum')

    Couldn't agree more with that That's why I started DGDev, to give us our own place. OK how about this:

    Two new forums, one for the creative side of game development (game ideas, stories, art, music) and one for the 'other side' (design docs, object-oriented design, reusable game classes). I hope you see what I'm getting at

    I don't think we need to break those two forums down into separate ones for all aspects of game design, for example, an art forum (Delphi programmer art?) but we can always change things later if we get hundreds of art topics!

    And we can finally combine the Chat and General Discussion forums into one, DGDev Lounge maybe? :twisted:

    And while we're at it, post any other suggestions on how to make this a better place for the Delphi Game community here.

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    New forums (was 'Game design forum')

    I have said it b4 and I will say it again ... BLUECAT YOU ARE A GENIOUS!!!
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    New forums (was 'Game design forum')

    Sounds good to me.
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    New forums (was 'Game design forum')

    Two more suggestions for forums

    1. Resources - where is the best places to get sounds, images compoennts etc. (Including coparisons between tools etc)
    2. Shareware links - I've takena look at shareware for the first time in a long time and there are some really good shareware games out there. We should be looking at getting our games into this sort of environment. We should look at links about what is required etc. Basically we could call this a publishing forum.

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