M64’s Games Blog

I have created a news section on the main page of PEG wiki. I will try to separate my personal blog and PEG news, but for now the blog has more readers and so I do some advertising here. If you are actually more interested in PEG project then my personal ramblings, you can subscribe to the RSS feed of the main Wiki page or the Recent Changes page.

Also – I do not know if you have noticed, but Wikipedia has started a donation drive. Remembering how much inspiration Wikipedia’s example gave me and how much time daily I spend on Wikipedia, donating was an obvious thing to do. If you have some loose money and feel the same, please consider donating too. For those impulsive types there is a Wikipedia donation banner on the blog’s sidebar.

Hello my dear readers! I have been neglecting you for a few months and for that I would like to apologize. The reasons were numerous – subsequent attempt to write my thesis, important milestones at the studio and choice and purchase of my first car. But now I am coming back. It will probably take me a few days to get up and running again, but now that I am motorized I do have some more free time in the evenings and I hope that I will be able to put it to some good use beginning next week. In the mean time I will try to restore some contacts in the FOSS gamedev community, catch up on the progress of PARPG and perhaps even setup a site for the post-apocalyptic economic game thing. I hope I will be able to write something more interesting in a few days.

Small technical update about the progress of things. While TheAncientGoat and dmj726 are busy writing universe concepts proposals I have been spending some time evaluating different possible technical platforms for hosting the commundo world lore and asset repository. Options currently investigated are: Drupal, Joomla, ocPortal and MediaWiki (+ some supporting technologies). So far Drupal feels like the easiest one to use, ocPortal is nice because it has many useful features (like wiki, chat etc.) included in the base install (but it is a bit complicated), Joomla falls somewhere in between and MediaWiki has not been evaluated yet. If anyone has experience with those systems and would like to share his knowledge, then I could certainly use some advice.

Aside from that, I have added randomized favicons to blog and fought off a small wave of comment spam. Also I have started a thread I called Design Drills on FGD forums – the idea is to exercise our game design skills by collectively discussing some game idea without any plans or obligations to ever implement it. Unfortunately the thread is not getting too much interest, so if there is someone who reads my blog, but does not read FGD or have not noticed the thread, I would appreciate if you give me a hand with getting the discussion rolling.