Developer Diaries

General Discussions
#1

Now available on JGF. E.g. (using Kev as a guinea-pig):

http://javagamesfactory.org/views/view-devdiary?title=Tilt%204k

…also demonstrating the ability for multiple people to post to the same diary.

How it works is that each game has its own diary (or not), and all the people who are marked as authors of the game can post their own entries into the diary. It records the name of each poster just to keep things clear.

I just put this together very quickly tonight, so right now you have to ask me to create the diary for you (just takes a couple of clicks) but I’ll try and fix that ASAP so you don’t even need that.

I’ll also setup a news feed on it so that new diaries + updates get sent to the news section automatically (like they do with new games)

#2

PS: I’m not being sarky in that post - those were Kevin’s own words in his first experiment with an earlier version (went through a couple of different of attempts tonight).

#3

Coo, now thats brilliant! Really easy to update…

Kev

#4

24 hours later, I’ve added in most of the obvious missing features. So, now:

  • you can edit existing entries (fix spelling mistakes etc)
  • attach images to each entry
  • …and it autoamtically generates thumbnails for them, so feel free to upload large images
  • on your profile page, it automatically links to all devdiaries you’ve ever written an entry in, e.g. http://javagamesfactory.org/views/view-profile?name=kevglass currently has two on the go :stuck_out_tongue:

Still to come? Maybe…

  • index page where you can see all the diaries, which ones have been updated recently, etc
  • somethign similar to IOTD (I had the same thought as Onyx when I saw the demise of flipcode :)) pulled automatically from images attached to diary entries
  • links attached to diary entries that are then tracked and automatically collated and listed in the resources section of the site. Maybe not worth doing, it’s just an idea someone suggested
#5

http://javagamesfactory.org/views/devdiaries-index

(see above link)

A few more diaries have been added, including a devdiary for the Volatile Engine, with some nice long info from DP about what they’re up to…

#6

What about a comment system ?

#7

To comment on diary entries?

#8

Yep.

#9

I’d quite like an RSS feed if thats possible. I could then keep my dev diary on JGF but embed it in my game page with a restyle. That’d be really nice.

Kev