THEY KILLED FANGAME DISCUSSION!, But it's more Organized Now

LOL, couldn't they have kept the WIP Game Section?

It is a lot better this way IMO.

I might post that SSMFGG engine I have lying around...as soon as I find Im4everkool or giygas.

HII SHROOMGUY!!!

And to make this post more important, I like it the new way. The games will get more attention and maybe the board won't be filled with a bunch of "I can't make a game make it for me tehe" topics.

OH SHNAPZ!!! POST IT!(I can't phoshtan from mah wii)

Anyway Oni, what Im4everkool said.

more like fixed it

There's a news topic about it.

I don't know...I want to make more progress before we start a topic on it. Plus, the engine has a few bugs in it that really need fixing. We also need to refine the story a little bit more.

They killed it, then brought it back to life in a better way.

Agreed. Here's a Few Sub-Board Suggestions:
Game Maker
TGF/MMF
MechaSource
THose 3 Boards would help a LOT with Organization!

No they would not. Who cares what a game has been made in? That would only serve a purpose if you want to call out for a random team and this is actually what we want to get rid of.
If you have questions on those programs, you go to Help. Easy as that.


Also, glad to hear that everyone prefers the new layout. ^-^

I'm not making sub-forums for clickteam products and Game Maker. If anything I want to encourage REAL programming languages, not separate the fangaming community some more.

The way I see it is that sites like SFGHQ are miles prower ahead of us in the fangaming department. Sonic Robo Blast 2 has been around a decade now, yet there are very few 3D Mario fangames to speak of. I want to see all sorts of crazy development projects! I want to attract people who use all sorts of different programming languages, from Python to J# to BASIC to Squirrel. There's hundreds out there, yet MFGG has always been geared towards Clickteam and more recently Game Maker.

Clickteam products & game maker products attract young audiences. Because of this, you have people who start at a young age with GM/MMF, then end up using it for a number of years and strengthing their skills. Nearly everyone at SFGHQ all use MMF. There's only a few handful of games that use real programming lanugages.(Sonic robo, nexus, *******ized and maybe a few others.)Most are fine with GM/MMF's programming methods.)

If you want to attract users who use real languages, then this site would have to be changed to orginal indie development. If it's fan-game related, you aren't going to get that much of an audience. You aren't going to find many who are 13-15 that are willing to learn and make a game in pure programming language. They have enough trouble with using GM/MMF.

We improved it to the better, this way the main is for it's actual purpose and not requests all the time.

Still more games than MFGG has to offer

site won't change but the FD has never really been restricted to just fangames. It was just named before "indie" became a buzz word.

And even if it isn't a big audience right now, a community that supports the development of stuff outside of the clickteam/gamemaker line will no doubt widen this audience. I bet there's loads of people on MFGG that want to tackle something like C++, but, having looked at the syntax and not understood it and then having looked at existing tutorials and not understood them, have essentially given up. I see very little reason why MFGG can't help turn that around while doing everything it already does.


I suppose you could call it the "Friends for Xgoff" movement. There's like, less than five active people on this forum that understand Lua.

Eh, I think MechaSource might change that a bit. But it still won't get people to learn C++.

I really think someone should make some C++ Game Programming Tutorials. Or C#, that'd be good too. I could ty to teach you guys my limited knowledge of SDL.NET for C#... Hmm...

The problem with C is that it takes forever though, but I guess if you guys want a several-year project I guess that'd work too

but leave me out

You can make Lua Projects in C++. That's actually one of the most common ways of making Lua Projects.

As I said somewhere else, if you all write text-based tutorials for various languages on the Wiki eventually they'll be organised and linked up and stuff. And then if there's errors or it's not particularly simple or whatever, others can edit the pages.

A good place to start is a page outlining the principles of various programming languages. I.e. different data types and what the syntax means etc. I know it's a bit of a lame thing to do but there's literally nothing there at the moment.


Hell, even MechaBowser could write MechaSource tutorials when the time comes. That Wiki's designed to be able to cope with loads of stuff.

Sweet, though I think it'd be hell to keep track of all the functions.

Oh and if I make tutorials, where do I put them? In the MechaSource article or a new one?
I assume the first.