*cross-posted on irishgaming.com/forums* http://www.gamecraftersguild.com
The Game Crafter's Guild has gone through a full upgrade and now boasts a whole new set of features. The GCG web portal was originally set up by Specky last May. It is intended as a place to support and help collaboration and creativity in gaming and roleplaying. The original site had a page for collaborations and downloads. I've upgraded the site and it now has a forum (based on the rather cool Vanilla forum software), wiki (based on DokuWiki which has support for public and private user groups), collaboration with comments and a download section with comments, star ratings and tags. Heck, there's even a spell checker! All integrated via a single login. You can keep up to date by using the numerous RSS feeds, by email or by using an lj account (gcg_ie), as all news, downloads and collaborations are cross-posted there. The *big* feature is that we have a Pligg section. What's Pligg I hear you cry? The idea is simple. Users submit stories about Gaming and Roleplaying. Other users comment and vote on these stories. Once a story has enough votes it appears on the Pligg frontpage. If you use digg.com or reddit.com you'll know exactly what this is. You can read more about it here: http://www.gamecraftersguild.com/p/faq-en.php . AFAIK, we're the first to have this specifically for gaming and roleplaying! (Just to note, it's not fully integrated with the rest of the site. Login/logout etc. is fine. This will happen over the next week, so the link for it is: http://www.gamecraftersguild.com/p ) The site is in "alpha" testing right now and needs some real bodies to start playing around with the features. See whats useful and what works (and obviously what doesn't work and isn't useful too). We're still fleshing out text and look and feel in many places. If everything is good, we'll make it all official. When Specky announced the site way back when, many people said they thought it was something needed. Some of you made offers of content for the download section (it's not just for scenarios btw). Now would be a good time to follow through! :) If you have any feedback, good, bad or indifferent, you can reply here or just get involved in the site and post your thoughts on the forum. Suggestions for new features are also welcome. Oh, btw, that webpage address again: http://www.gamecraftersguild.com Mark -- http://thedeadone.net http://irishgamingwiki.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/igaming/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/igaming/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
