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Ahh Ok, thanks for reporting those. I'll take a look tomorrow. I know of a few of those, but not submitting highschools is a bit of an issue.. I also gotta fix up those missing images.

Welcome :) You should post your project when its ready.

Welcome to GDU :)

What is the Established Games forum for? This forum is to filter out the more established games from our User Submitted Games forum. The Established Games forum is for project topics that either have a decently long demo (more than an introductory scene for example), or are very close to having a demo such that you can make a complete topic with all the required details such to create interest for it. Other games that are less established should be posted in the parent forum, User Submitted Games. Required Contents Topics in the Established Games forum should have the following A demo (not required by highly recommended) An introduction or storyline overview 3 or more Screenshots, or a video or both Credits if applicable It is also recommended that all images be uploaded using your Manager's uploader to prevent dead images. This can also be accessed via the fixed header while writing your topics (the 'upload' icon, which is visible on your screen right now if you are logged in) Structure your topics Topics should be structured with clear headings. We recommend using the following BBCode (example http://www.gdunlimit...f-arcatis-demo/): [size=6]My Heading[/size] Or your own images for headings, for example: http://www.gdunlimit...xpdemo-legacy/8 Tag your topics The forums for submitted your games are for games of any type and any engine. Thus it is appropriate to tag your topic title with the engine used. Here are some examples [RMXP]My RPG Maker XP Game [ACE]My RPG Maker VX Ace Game [GM]My Game Maker Game [unity]My Unity Game Don't use spoilers for your main content It's a common trend to use spoilers in your topics, even for all of the content. Try to avoid placing valuable information, particularly screenshots and downloads, into spoilers. Instead try to refine the text of your topic to keep it interesting. Walls of text are intimidating for your readers and this may put them off. Spoilers should be used for additional and lengthy information only. Contact us for any help Send a PM to Marked or Tomo2000 (the local moderator) if you need any help with the guidelines, or you have a topic ready to be moved from User Submitted Games into Established Games. Do not re-post your games, we will move them for you.

That's been at the top of the mission statement for quite a while. Of course not much has been done towards this goal. It's extremely difficult. Believe it or not GDU is changing literally every day (currently on a break from uni). Right now I'm building the framework for the future. For example, if anyone had read my latest announcement closely you will find the link to my latest creation which I will announce soon. It can be expanded into more engines without the need for me to be around, so any staff member. I think that is what I'll be doing until the end of my admin days here, so really such an expansion isn't going to be done by me. I'm building things up the best I can and my hopes are to attract more members through the site and subsequently more potential staff members who will lead the way in expansion from RM. So eventually, we will get staff members who are experts in other such engines and have a more complicated staff hierarchy. Enterbrain.

This is really fun.. *recommends* Looking forward to it being expanded.

It's so hard to pick. I know 3/5 of the members are as good as gone, all former staff, but they all contributed before falling in active.

I don't think that's what we need to be competitive. Somewhere along the way a culture of non-contribution developed here, I've seen members here who have posted things at other forums but decided not to post the same thing here. The most disheartening for me to see is the lack of replies to the games section. We're all about making games, and we need things like good support, feedback, resources, tutorials, etc. Not so much competitions. Not that we don't need competitions, I just think we need them for other reasons :) Saltome is right about why. Although I would say not enough competitors rather than none at all. The stats for our visitors has remained pretty strong. I think if there was a proper competition held then participants would come. You also get that member who signed up just join the contest. If we held a contest officially, managed it properly and advertised it around the site, then I think it work. I like the idea of a contests manager who organizes the contests, keeps people interested on the forums and on our social media accounts, etc.

Haha. That's a good idea though, using points to unlock the member title. I do plan to make points a pretty part of GDU life :P http://www.gdunlimited.net/roadmap (see points system).

Not points, posts. You have 4 already.

Yeah you need a 100 posts, but until then, it will change once you get to certain post counts. I think the next one is at 25 posts.

You can just PM me things. But yeah, the choice of RPG Maker was an experiment I did many years ago. I was trying to make a badge show up in topics for each engine a user made. The skills are also really old and the titles need to be changed. I've left them alone because I had planned a new profile system. I actually started it 1 year ago (long before gdu went live) and you could probably see the new profiles if you knew the URL. But since then I have improved the gdu system and my own skills in php that I need to rewrite it entirely, which won't happen until I get the more important sections done. This is what I had for the skills. Go to this URL and change around the numbers and see what happens http://www.gdunlimited.net/profile/skillset/50/150/250/100/300/200 I cant render it in an img tag because it doesn't have an extension.

Welcome to the 2012 review of GDU. So... what happened on GDU during 2012? RMXP Unlimited to Game Dev Unlimited September 11th The most significant event of the year is easily saying goodbye to RMXP Unlimited and old Joomla CMS website. I have fond memories of mornings in 2008 where I would work on articles for the CMS before school, where I first learnt to write HTML. The transition to GDU was a smooth one, but probably over-hyped and was expected. Most members saw the move as merely a change in design and at this stage in GDU's life, it's still hard to convince everyone of the beauty of the new system. I'm sure this will change during 2013 :) The death of an RMXPU Legend May 22nd Apparently. It was announced that our beloved Kiriashi had passed away by Polraudio, who got the news 2nd hand over IM. It is most likely hoax, I personally took it as a dramatic resignation from staff. Yep, I'm pretty sure Kiriashi is alive and well, but probably not the same as we knew him. I still try to antagonise him nonetheless to drag him out of hiding. This very paragraph is an example of that :) I guess I could just talk to him on Skype.. Top Topics of 2012 The whole year (Topics started after the 1st of Jan, 2012. Excluding scripts from the old RMXPU scripts archive) Topic Views Posts Author Announcing gdunlimited.net 5,404 98 Marked Moonpearl's Animated Custom Menu System 4,682 55 Moonpearl [RMXP]Heretic's Caterpillar - Extensive Feat.. 4,579 78 Heretic86 Kiriashi Passed Away 4,197 54 Polraudio RPG Maker VX ACE trial released - direct download 3,235 27 Marked The Great Downtime December 3rd - December 17th Oh, this was just a few weeks ago. The "Great Downtime" was the longest downtime for many, many years. It was so sever that it has earned its place in history, with its own page on wikipedia: GDU'ers worldwide went crazy on the GDU Facebook Page. Here are some quotes: GDU Socialite How dare there be down time! GDU Socialite How many cores do you have? GDU Socialite Cross all 99 of my problems.. ^ No idea what he meant by that. Tomo2000 Well, F*** The Great Downtime lasted a full 15 days, and was topped off nicely by a cherry-on-top hacking and subsequently being flagged as a malicous site, slaughtering our traffic with a 50% reduction. Good news however as these effects seem to be finally over with traffic restored to its normal level. As you can see, well deserving of its own title. And in case you were worried, GDU is completely clean: A foreshadowing of 2013 So what do we have in the works for 2013? Hopefully you've already seen our roadmap. Since GDU going live in September we have crossed 2/9 off the list and the plan is to cross them off one by one. In March we moved a lot of content off the website into forum topics. So our priority is to get those sections back up first before getting to the more unique sections planned for GDU. Also to feature in 2013 will be some fresh new faces in our staff team. If you're interested, stick around ;) Have a good New Years and see you all in 2013

I think Pol is going to want to handle the Member of the Year. It's an official thing we do here, so.. I don't think MOTM should run for December either because the forum was down for 15 days. MOTM is supposed to run till the 15th day of the month, and then nominations happen. So it really can't work I don't think. It's up to Pol though, I'm sure he'll see this topic. Either way, MOTY is definitely an important thing we must do.

Yup that's exactly what I wanted to know, thanks mandanchi :)

Is it or was it this screen every time? If this was popping up when you accessed the site directly then we may have been flagged by software. This from a topic I'm getting help from Any info from you guys will be useful. Our traffic has taken a dive since this happened and I need info to make sure visitors arn't getting warned off.

Oh damn, I hate when that happens. I once wrote a tutorial and accidentally closed the tab and lost the whole thing. I never rewrote it. I thought everyone knew about that bug. I will have a quick look now.. Maybe this shoulda been a PM? :P Don't forget to structure it with steps/headings ;) EDIT: Yeah the HTML seems to be fine, but why it does not work could be several things and could hours to debug. Instead I'm going to remove it for now and come back to it when the entire forum theme is updated.

A few questions.. Who else is getting the attack site screen? For those of you getting it, does it happen when you access the site directly? (or when clicking a link in google search) Are you getting it constantly, or did it happen just once?

Yeah, people miss it. It's tricky getting people to notice all the little things. Maybe if they cascaded in with a fade-in animation.

I have since made an announcement for the Engines section: http://www.gdunlimited.net/forums/topic/9391-official-section-engines/ Post there now, imma lock this one. VX isn't up now as you can see, but I'll have this image on the server till I get around to writing up the page :) Thanks!

These? http://www.gdunlimited.net/forums/statuses/all/ I was thinking of putting it back up there temporarily, but that would take quite a while. The original plan was to have 'em in the "dashboard", but I decided to push that down the list of stuff to build. Some people are unaware we have a submenu. Have you ever seen this?

Oh why not? :http://www.gdunlimited.net/forums/gallery/category/2-autotiles/ I can't see what's in it right now coz my internet isn't cooperating.