In the eyes of Robin Monks

GMking.org’s Game Development wiki service, GMpedia.org, has finally reached its 600th article milestone! Our 600th article was the “temp_directory” article, which discusses the temp_directory global variable in Game Maker.

We’re really glad to having reached such article count, which indeed makes GMpedia.org one of the most comprehensive game development and Game Maker wikis out there (not simply taking into account an article count, but also the nature and length of the articles available).

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Ought-o.  This can’t be good.  

Drupal is getting a wordmark, and it looks very web 2.0.  It’s still going through it’s finial stages of development, but, I have some quick concerns about it.

1. “This will not be a design by committee process - the Designer will have the final word”, that’s worrisome.
2. Drupal is many things, but, it still doesn’t have the power to change the laws of physics (that’s coming in Drupal 8 ).  The “droplets” shouldn’t be coming out of the u for no reason.  I mean, no one wants a logo that looks like it’s sweating.
3. Why is the d a different color?  Please tell me you don’t plan on using that seporate from the rest of the word mark?
4. the space between the d and l feels awkward, as does the shape of the letter p and a, it looks like they are they, watching you
5. Learn from others mistakes.

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There are lots of ways to be involved:

1. Working on an Experience Strategy for Drupal.org
2. Creating a framework to understand the Drupal.org audience
3. Having a Mass Wireframing Frenzy (Come wireframe with me!) 
4. Doing a big online card sort to help solve the information architecture challenge! 
5. Wondering if D.O should be one site or several? 

I, of course, have some thoughts on all this

First of all, I don’t agree with the conclusions in #1.  I don’t think drupal.org, at least right now, has being a social site as it’s #1 goal.  Not to mention that groups was supposed to take over the social aspect.  Now groups vs. forums is a big mess and a nasty headache.  I personally don’t like groups, but if they want to use it, go the whole way!

Wireframe for a new intergrated bugtracker

#3, well, I have my own wireframes to contribute!  I see this redesign as a great chance to get some of my developer wish-lists into drupal.org.  See one of them at right.

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It seems Template Monster is now offering Drupal themes as part of it’s collection (it also previously offered Joomla themes).  Top Notch Themes was hot on their case, and showed some horrific tables-based markup and hard coded block CSS selectors in one of the Template Monster themes.

drupal4hu also brought up Template Monster themes, twice.  Looks like Template Monster is going to need to step it up a notch if they want to applease the Drupal community.  CSS based markup would be a nice start
And also, non-themeing related, if you want a humorous journey of browser identification themes, ending with Google Chrome, you’ll need to check this out!

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This just made me laugh.  Thanks to Glazblog for sharing!  Also worth noting that the JavaScript engine in the next version of Firefox will be FASTER than Google Chrome.

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Szeged inspired a boat-load of blog posts, tons of bugs, lots of documentation, hours of video, a wack of patches, and lots of other great stuff that no one thought to tell me about ;)  I’ve been spending some time going through what’s happened at Szeged (being on the side lines myself) and digging through all the good stuff to find the real gold nuggets from the latest Drupalcon.

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Photos

One great thing about Drupalcons is you have dozens of people with camera phones and camera snapping photos of every IRC nick and Drupal developer that get within range of.  This provides a great opportunity to put some faces to the names.

Video

Many sessions were videotaped, and are up at the sessions page on the Szeged Drupalcon website.  They make for some great watching!  The “State of Drupal” session by Dries is always what I find most interesting personally.  I’ll be watching with interest :)  It should be noted most of the sessions also have the slides available too, listed on the same page.

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GMking Audcast #4 has been released!

Topics covered in this audcast:

Cage Match: 00:50

Loads of Game Maker mags: 02:18

G3D Effects library: 04:45

GMTV Merge with GMking: 06:26

Game of the Week: 7:27

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