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Lol I forgot this may be embarassing for me. Don't forget that 2006 was the first year I started using forums and i was pretty young. All the hints there are relevant. Maybe ill decrease the date range if no one can find it. It's supposed t be a challenge :-

Treasure Hunt Welcome to the Treasure Hunt contest. How it works The first person to post a link to the page(s) that contain the following treasure wins. Hints -The treasure is hidden in a post -It is in the first post of a topic -It is in a topic between the date ranges of 2006 - 2007 -It is hidden in one of my posts -This page may be useful to you http://www.gdunlimited.net/about-us -One of the following numbers may or may not be significant: 8, 16, and/or 24 Prize The prize is a 1-month subscription to the site. Please note that the subscription prize is mainly recognition of the winner and does not provide a real benefit in terms of site-usage as we do not have any official subscriber system. Good luck in your searches! I shall post further hints if no one finds it fast enough.

The idea is optimistic enough without the challenge of a theme :P I think in the contest topic we'll make sure people understand that a game doesn't need to have 100hrs playtime. However this gives me an idea. To make sure everyone submits a legitimate game, we could require that each game have some common element. For example, its defined in the contest rules that the main enemy/bad guy be one that the contest gives you. To the extent that we provide the graphic and name. Some common element like that so each game has its own spin on how that enemy is defeated. Or it could be the hero. Or it could be the hero AND the bad guy.

I've never thought much of w3schools. Only when I started out did I think its a good resource, but I do on rare occasions use it for reference. That's just my opinion, I haven't used many of these sites to learn. I find tizag is pretty much an alternative of w3 schools. One way if you know you may not be getting this info available is if they use the old php functions to connect to a database: http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mysql_connect.asp To use those are considered a sin in web development... If you're going to pay, make sure you look around at all your option first. I find tutorials on general things in PHP so boring. I tried learning php from w3schools and gave up within a day. And that's saying something considering what I can do in PHP now. I learnt PHP from extending on top of joomla, maybe you could give that a go

Merge function is correctly broked :/ I agree, I wouldn't pay a cent to learn that stuff without a qualification at the end of it. There's way too much free stuff content out there and self teaching is superior to anything you can pay for. That's kinda my point, I was talking about if you're a 1-man team :P I may have been misleading when I said the programming part is bigger than the design part, I take back that statement. I probably said that because programming is a lot more advanced and html is very simple, css getting a bit more complicated. The point I really wanted to make is that if you're a one-man team, there's not much you can do with only html and css in your skillset in terms of making a website.

My vote is against a theme. I think it should be free and the main challenge being the time. The original poster, railfan101, PM'd me informing me that he will be too busy to run the contest. He was also afraid of being attacked despite what I said in PM and despite the posts in his favor in this topic. Which I find really unfortunate. So instead, as I said before, this topic will be used to discuss the parameters of the contest and get a feel for who's interested. Then in November we will make an official topic and it will be an official GDU contest. People have talked about submitting their previous works. The contest is called "game in a month" which sorta implied the challenge is the time. I don't think anyone will be against a rule that states you can only start the game at an official start date?

Interesting :D I think the HTML and CSS more fit the label of design rather than development. If you really wanted to take the fast route, you should just dive straight into PHP and make some apps. I've never done any tutorials on HTML and CSS (aside from googling what certain things do) and they both just developed as I made things in PHP. It really depends on what you're wanting to do. After this you may be really good at HTML and CSS, and that's great, but you can't make a site with that. Unless its a static site. And even a static site, with HTML alone, you actually have to copy and paste html pages and you're duplicated you code over and over. So if you ever wanted to make websites or extend current websites, the html and css part is like the bit at the end of it, and quite a small part. Unless, of course, you're the UI guy. I find this really useful: http://css3generator.com/

D::::: That's really cool!!!

Weclome to GDU

GDU is just a forum right now :/ So you're correct. It just looks like a theme change from rmxpu. The only simple explanation as to the difference is the perfect IPB integration using our own unique system and the potential to develop web apps quickly and efficiently that plug straight into the system.

Agreed. Of course my strategy isn't a forum, that's absolutely the entire point of GDU. You can see that here http://www.gdunlimited.net/mission-statement It's just a forum at the moment because I'm one hobbyist working alone. If a forum were to be successful however, I'd just register a domain name that is exactly the software name and slap some forum software onto. Boom, instant success. Why not throw ads everywhere too.

Lack of confidence? I think I lack more optimism than confidence. But yeah, I know, I've been told before that my own negativity is a bad reflection. The truth is that it's a negative situation. What I mean by time may beat us is that after my exams I immediately go into full time work, and I've got a life outside all of my obligations too. I was passionate about game making and providing a place for game makers. But rmxp is 8 years old now, and enterbrain has its own forum and much more monetary resources than we do. Even though they exploit people. The staff here are no longer active and its rare that a new member comes in and stays active long enough to be considered for staff. It took me 22 months to get GDU live and since then activity has gone down. What kind of a person would continue? I have the option to work as much as I want, who would choose to develop under these circumstances and give up the alternatives? Do you think its rational for me to continue? In saying that I have faith in my ideas and my ability to create something superior to any other competitor, in terms of functionality. Even though its irrational, damaging to my savings and has a low shot at success. I probably wouldn't bother if it was easy.

The solution to the problem is certainly a tough thing... But the first step is making sure that we all know about the problem. This video portrays New Zealand as corrupt as hell, and the government is and it sickens me. However, its the current party in power that is so pro-american, and they certainly will not remain in power next election. As the video said, its the PM John Key who is so eager please and to me he is scum. In saying that New Zealand fortunately has some redeeming features. Our judicature (the branch of government that is the courts) is sufficiently separate enough from the executive (the PM and his corrupt actions) that Kim Dotcom will be fairly trialled and will not be extradited. Similarly, our media isn't controlled by government and the video above was played at 7pm on one of our few news channels for all of NZ to see. This shit makes me sick. I know where you're coming from when you say "a world revolution" is the only way, but I know the situation isn't as dire as that. At the end of the day we're the one who makes them all the money, and most of elect who's in power. We have the power but we need to collaboratively use it.

Hi all, This is a must-watch video regarding the Megaupload case: The US trying to extradite Kim Dotcom from New Zealand to the US, and both country's seething corruption. Its 15 minutes but you do have time, just watch it. It also explains why actors are shamelessly interfering with the electoral system labelled "democratic" by supporting one side in the media. There's also a poll - multi-choice i case you don't agreement with the statements there.

That's a pretty poor service :/ You should consider moving. I hear wordpress is pretty good.

Well you know, it's tough. I see your forum is mainly about the RPG Maker's from enterbrain and therefore its a direct competitor of mine, and we're direct competitors of the official forums. We're both screwed really. I have been running this site since I was 15 so I had a bit of a head start, you may say that's a negative reflection on my management skills.. Comparing your my site to yours, not to sound cocky, but you're comparing something so extremely inferior on all levels. And that's purely because you use a free hosting service. You have control on so little control whereas I can literally control every pixel that you see on the site. That said, a site such as yours can easily beat a site like this and many have. A simple forum free-hosted forum can be extremely popular with a good team. The main asset the site has right now is a vision, the ability to realize it, but time may beat us.

I used to use Dreamweaver, but I switched to NetBeans mainly for the project handling features that dreamweaver has but were more difficult to use. Yeah the CSS tags seem infinite to me.. Not to worry, I've got a detailed page of all examples of all UI elements. So you'd be all good there. More challenging is the template language which you can see at the top of that image. I've also got a tut on that. It would take a few days, but you know, all you gotta know is HTML and the rest if looking at your references. The actual loading of the page is more complicated. You've got to define which view to load in the controller, as these are static files, just content loaded from files. "View" and "Controller" are just some MVC architecture jargon, if you don't know already. Its simple, its just splitting functions into to different functions, thats why you see no php in the above image. I'm not sure when I'd need anyone to help with this. As far as software pages go I've got to design a consistent layout for them yet. That could take a long while with my exams :P But I'm keen to prioritize those because we need such pages up asap.

...you forgot to mention how impressed you are. Well if you can write this by hand, then you can make GDU pages :D Yeah i notice the error in the code too... >.

Dude, that comment cut me deep just now. I guess you've been inactive for a long time.. or ppl arn't reading my posts about why the move to GDU isn't just a design change. There is no CMS. GDU is 100% written by me (using an PHP Library called Hydrogen). I've tried to credit all the 3rd party stuff I've used here: http://www.gdunlimited.net/about-us Remember how you PM'd me bout integrating IPB with Joomla? I made GDU, my own system, to integrate perfectly with IPB (minus a few javascript and CSS issues here and there). You see how you're logged into the homepage? These variables that tell you that you're logged in come directly from IPB's system and through the GDU system. Similarly, the layout markup and CSS (so basically the theme) is all the same. Example, notice how the GDU Survey notice is on absolutely every page? It's like the ultimate integration... and it allows me to develop things like we've talked about in this topic very quickly. The possibilities are unlimited...

Yup, I intend to. Thanks a lot :D

Lets consider the purpose of the topic for a moment. Googling a bunch of engines without properly looking into them is just going to dilute the list and the topic becomes useless. That may not be what you meant, but I think we should keep it high quality. Is it inside of the game itself?

Yup, recently in fact. For game reviews, I'm thinking of keeping them confined to the games section. Of course this limits reviews to games uploaded to the site with demos available. For video game reviews, a separate forum sounds like a good idea to me. For Game Software on the other hand, I had a few ideas. Since our shift away from specific engines, I've been thinking of ways to get more software out there and get visitors trying new software to see if they like it. Part of my idea is to create pages for game development software (eg, this rushed page which is purposely semi-hidden right now http://www.gdunlimit...pg-maker-vx-ace) that both show off the engine to the visitor, not so much to sell the software to them, but get across that engines benefits relative to other engines: try to match the software to the person. Also on these pages I thought of doing official GDU reviews: What GDU thinks of this particular software and we how we rate. Similarly, on the very page, I thought we could allow user-submitted reviews, moderated of course. So say I'm a new visitor coming to see the page. I can immediately see screenshots of what the engine is capable, its features, a GDU review and GDU members' personal reviews. Of course this is also limiting in the sense they're all GDU pages and thus recommended by us. That wouldn't provide for a random member wanting to review some random software. EDIT: btw noob, you helped my uncover a major issue with my code. You have noticed this topic wasn't loading before. Luckily its all fixed, that would have taken a very long time to find otherwise.