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Glad I pinned this topic now. B)
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Mon fils et moi.
ma sœur et moi.
Mes amis et moi.
et le dernier mais non le moindre, ma cherie.
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Anybody heard of this genre? I came across it a few months ago. I think there's a demo out there somewhere where you put your headphones on and close your eyes. There's another one where you've been captured and about to be tortured. It's pretty amazing.
[http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/12/deep-sea-the-scariest-game-ever/](http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/12/deep-sea-the-scariest-game-ever/) -
Open source engine, lots of tutorials and "How to make this cool feature X" articles, and a drama section, please.
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I'll probably carry on as I am. I act a fool, I'm helpful, I keep things moving, I make people laugh and then I tell them straight to cut their shit out if they're acting up. People seem to take me seriously for it.
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Oh. My post didn't post.
Basically, we wouldn't moderate the Drama section - unless it gets really, really bad. That's the point of Drama Section, because people are always crying that the moderator team is "Supressing" their free speech on unlikable matters.
Furthermore, people would be more willing to speak about borderline topics and having banter in general, without worrying about a moderator magically appearing, deleting/hiding their post, sending them a scary PM and a warn or ban. If somebody says something someone doesn't like, don't retribute with a response - just make a thread and post a link in response so that flaming can be diverted. Sort of like a multi-threaded topic. -
> I've been the leading seamen at my shop
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> For the record, I did start from nothing here as well. It was 6 years ago, and I had no talents. Now I'm a professional front end developer. There's a whole life story here, but I can trace my beginnings to 6 years ago, at the blue/skulls smf eclipse that we all loved. Put it back to how it was.
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> Yukiro seems to think that the old ways aren't the right direction. He's too concerned with taking it in another "new" direction, and that's wrong, in my opinion. It was great as it was before Amish ruined it. We don't need another clueless owner who thinks he can turn it into something new.
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> It wasn't broken, don't try to spit-shine it into a pretty little turd-flower. Put it back how it was.
I agree to an extent. Eclipse had its issues; such as lack of engine support, all the moderators/admins were expected to pick and choose when and where they should put some work in. Flaming was a constant issue, and like I said a moment ago, they stamped down way too hard on everybody everywhere on the forum, because of the few.
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So whilst we were talking on Eclipse Skype chat over microphone, I was rambling on for about two minutes to complete silence. When I finished, I got "Good speech"'s. I've never given a speech in my life.
To summarise it, Eclipse once was and should have always been, open source, free and about the community. Eclipse is not a commercial prospect. Eclipse has always been and should always be, about the community. The advertisement of "Free MMORPG Maker" brought many immature, underage, naive kids to the forum. Ten (sic) years on, including myself in that previous description, look at us now. Programmers, Pixel Artists, Graphic Artists, Musicians. I'm working on my own thing. Stephan, Elliot Brown, General Awesome; programmers from nothing. Baron; pixel artist from nothing. Kreator; Pixel artist *and* musician; from nothing. Jungletoe, one of the most notoriously annoying faggots to ever grace the forum got hammered and tossed around like a fruit juice in a rabble of disparate children. But he stuck it out, gave the middle finger and now he's celebrating a recently steam-greenlit project picked up by a publisher and sitting comfortably in his own development office, [http://playdwell.com/](http://playdwell.com/) .
Eclipse is about the community. Eclipse is a rallying pool for unrealised talent to try their best with a free, open source engine and to harness their possible capabilities into serious game development skills.
I want to see Eclipse back to that. I want to see Eclipse offering not only the (albeit roughly offered) nurturing side it always offered, but to also allow more advanced developers to harness their skills together and make a real go at what they're aiming to achieve.
If ever Eclipse strays from that again, I'm out of here.
Let's do this.
> Not to be "that guy". But I dont like the idea of a community founded on just being a friendly place and kind. Call me an asshole, but berrating people on how they put a point across or when there is personal banter (like whats just happened here) isn't a solution.
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> Some people in topics could have genuine concerns, concerns that not everybody will agree with or be happy to hear regardless of intention.
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> For instance… Im worried about posting this post in case i get banned or warned... thats not a community spirit you should foster, folks.
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> Hell I cant even collaborate with you guys (which is what game development is about) because anything not eclipse is somehow "the enemy" and trounced out.
I want to see non-eclipse games flourish in their own section, as was introduced a few years ago. Like I previously said in this post, people come to eclipse, learn, grow and start their own thing - moving on. I want to keep you suckers chained down here, just for a few more years ;).
I'm also constantly pushing for a "Drama Section" that will allow people to piss and moan and fly off the handle all they like, to filter all the flaming, faggotry, bigotry, hate speeches and neonazism to one little shithole so that the rest of the forum can put it on hide and not have to roll their eyes in every thread, or to fear prosecution from overly-sensitive admins waiting for a flame to pop up, like waiting for a spout of lava from a boiling volcano covered in a sheet of obsidian. -
[13:58:27] Azkanan: I'll make a thread in Admin Zone about this, but basically, I think we should all have individual roles and titles, rather than "Owner", "Admin" and "Moderator". Obviously we can still do each other's work, but we should have a main focus each.
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We will need a way to make sure people can get to the people they need to speak to, a highlighted url on the front page and footer of every page, which leads to the "I need help" page.
Here are a few, whereas I'm sure the names can be themed or not.
**Forum Overlord:** The owner.
**Engine Technician:** The developer(s)/designer(s) of the engine.
**Web Technician:** The developer(s)/designer(s)/bugfixer(s)/etcer(s) of the website.
**Public Relations Manager:** Advertising, liaison with other forums when/if needed and such.
**Complaints Manager:** Complaints handler - make sure they get investigated and handled fairly. Be sure and steadfast with your final decision. Executing that previous sentence correctly will give Eclipse a good reputation.
**Arcade Manager:** Richy's job - find new games, add new games, hold tournaments, clear the leaderboard once in a while when it gets stagnant, come up with new ideas to keep it interesting.
**Projects Manager:** Eclipse Projects manager. Keep an eye on the games people make, make sure they're in the right section, kept up to date, kept clean and acceptable, etc.
**Shoutbox Moderator:** Keep the shoutbox clean, advertisement-free and happy. Make people feel welcome, keep the conversation going.
**Contents Moderator:** Keep the forum clean, advertisement-free and happy. Make people feel productive, welcome and keep conversations going with open-ended questions.
**Engine Support:** Learn everything about the official engine. Keep on-top of engine questions and bugs, making sure they're answered and reported to the development team. **Make tutorials and "cool things you can do with X"**.
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As for boards, as previously mentioned in a skype phone call, we should split boards by free and paid. We should also make it so that every game slaps an "Age Rating" banner across the top of their thread, just a simple by-colour and single label. -
All these years, and we still have this ban-plz-unban situation? Jesus. Unban the fuck after a couple of weeks, like Marsh said.
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> Ill mess with the colors when I get home but I was going for the very bright saturated feel.
No logo ever was bright and saturated with rainbow colours. Ever.
You know which ones were? The ones people don't hear about.
As for the logo, I'd probably make the main studio title smaller except the first letter, for it to stand out, perhaps add some opacity to it. I don't know, I'm a pixel artist, I don't do this vector stuff. -
Seth
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Oh. I thought Helladen got banned months/years ago. Or should have been? -
Seth
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I reckon I'll try and reboot it if Eclipse goes free.
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Bump, right?
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Bare with me.
Allow for the application of political parties. These would be special types of groups.
Political Leaders can then attempt to sway the forum masses to vote for them.
Ruling Political Parties rule for one week.
And then we need to come up with a reason for wanting to be the ruling political parties, beside the title of "Prime Minister of Eclipse Forum" tag or something.
Thought I'd throw this out there for discussion.
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Bonjour mes amis! Mon français est très mauvais, mais je voulais dire bonjour du personnel admin. :)
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Yeah cool alright, we'll just enforce Marshall Law on the shoutbox and wind up with warn-ban drama every night then. Remember how that ended?
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Take out Kibbelz' features, intellectual property under contract, he could sue you, etc etc etc. And get somebody else to rewrite them in.
I expect *an* open source engine, pixel art competitions again, a forum gaming zone and a Drama Thread to redirect all flaming and hearty debates to a single part of the site, rather than nazi admins and their hammers, squishing anything that could might even possible 1% lead to flaming. Then you're off to a good start. -
Let me know if it gets too much, I'll buy Eclipse off your hands ^_^
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So how long till I can buy this place off your hands and get the community back to the good days?
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Howdy everyone! The forum is now up and ready for fine adventurers such as yourselves!
It's all still a bit beta, some of the graphics needs fixing up, but it's completely accessible and usable.
Come check us out!
[www.KelethorGaming.com](http://www.kelethorgaming.com/community/index.php) -
Thanks guys! This is going to be awesome, honest.
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> whats with the French?
Gwen, I miss you. Skype me or something? :(
And whatever happened to the other one, I forgot her name, sweet jesus. There were two main admin womens back in the day. Ends in A I think?
> Azkanan your boy looks a lot like you
I'd be worried if he didn't.