New forums (was 'Game design forum')

[Useless Hacker]

[BlueCat]

Here's something we could do. I know of a hack I can install that would let us have sub-categories, forums within forums. The new categories appear on the front page under the main categories.

For example, under the Community main category there would be a 'Resources' sub-category. Click that and you get a page with either more sub-categories or the forums under the sub-category, like 'Art','Music','Selling your Game',etc. In the future, any of these forums could be turned into a sub-category with separate forums on the next level down in the hierarchy.

There would be some risks involved of course These hacks invariably give us trouble for at least a few hours while I panic and try to work out what's gone wrong. And then there's the bugs... oh the bugs :evil:

I'm willing to give it a go though if people are happy with the idea. I think the way to do it would be to get the mod installed and then convert each forum to a sub-category one at a time.

Sounds like a plan to me :idea:

[TheLion]

Sure, give it a go ! I have been thinking about that for a long time, however I didn't know there where hacks for it !

If there are bugs I'll gladly help you to (try and) filter them out!

[BlueCat]

Ok now we have more room to add forums, let's decide what we need.

We've already seen a few suggestions in this thread but we have to work out how to fit them in.

Here's my first attempt, * means category or sub-category, all others are forums:

DGDev*
--News
--Site feedback (was Forums)

Community*
--Chat
--Your Projects
--Marketing and Distribution
--Help me!

Design*
--Technical*
----Documentation
----Tools and methodologies (I made that up, lol)
--Creative*
----Visual
----Music and Sound Effects
----Game Ideas
----Story writing

Programming*
--Getting Started*
----Delphi Basics
----Tutorials and Links
--Graphics*
----OpenGL
----Direct3D and DirectDraw
--Sound*
----DirectSound
----FMOD
----BASS
----OpenAL
--Networking*
----Network Programming
----DirectPlay
--Input*
----DirectInput
--AI*
----Artificial Life
----Genetic Algorithms
----Pathfinding
----Neural Nets
--General
--Game Programming
--Kylix

Game Libraries and Components*
--A3D nGine 2003Ar
--DelphiX
--GameVision SDK
--GLScene
--GLXTreem
--PowerDraw
--Project Omega
--SDL
--Xcess Game Development Kit

OMG we're turning into GameDev :shock:

That's 26 forums/sub-categories on the front page, so it's a little less than we have now. And 39 forums all together.

What do you think? Is that enough forums for now?

[WILL]

Turning into? Hell this is better than GameDev. I like it!

[Crisp_N_Dry]

That seems like an excellent way to arrange things. Good work. I assume most of the bugs in the sub category hack have been ironed out. I was rather surprised when I saw 55 new posts in every category yesterday. I thought all my Delphi applications had compiled at once.