July 10, 2013
I've been keeping notes over the past few months our new article system has been in use and have several tips for both new and current authors to make your content better for people to read and also better for me to work with when it comes to publishing them. All these tips are in addition to the g…
April 24, 2013
First off I am utterly blown away by how the community is coming together to start posting articles. One of my biggest hopes for this approach is that we can really start exposing the very best articles available on the internet in one place. At the end of the day learning is the most important…
April 24, 2013
Forgive the lateness of my reply
Actually, I'm here to give y'all an update as to what I'm doing regarding gamedev lately. Since the release of the Gamedev Collection series (still available at Amazon, go get them now), I have been doing very little (and by that I mean no) billable work for Gamedev…
Actually, I'm here to give y'all an update as to what I'm doing regarding gamedev lately. Since the release of the Gamedev Collection series (still available at Amazon, go get them now), I have been doing very little (and by that I mean no) billable work for Gamedev…
May 21, 2012
In my last post you got a chance to Read about some major changes to our site reputation system in the works . This post will discuss some of the preliminary point breakdowns.
Your goal hopefully is the same as our goal: use this special place that we developers have here to help each other as mu…
Your goal hopefully is the same as our goal: use this special place that we developers have here to help each other as mu…
May 11, 2012
Everyone this week got a pretty sizeable ratings boost. Why? Because you guys are all so awesome. One of the core objectives that we as a site set this year was to give our members more of a chance to shine. It's tough as a site to figure out ways to do that, and we've tried to do that sort …
March 23, 2012
Some of you may have noticed our new "Classifieds" system, created to replace the Help Wanted forum (now closed to new posts) and address a number of issues resulting from the use of a simple forum for recruiting. In a moment we'll take a look at some of the features Classifieds offers and the rea…
March 04, 2012
I want to make everyone aware of a change we made during a recent review of our moderating procedures and policy. We've enabled the option for users to see their warning level - this will appear as a bar beneath your avatar under each forum post you make and also in your profile page. It appears ex…
February 21, 2012
Just want to make a quick official update about some of the changes and additions you may have noticed we've made to the moderation team over the past few months.
New Senior Moderators
Community Manager Washu and myself appointed two new moderators to the Senior Mods council - swiftcoder and jbadams.…
New Senior Moderators
Community Manager Washu and myself appointed two new moderators to the Senior Mods council - swiftcoder and jbadams.…
January 09, 2012
Open Tagging vs. Closed Tagging
When we launched the site upgrade and announced that we had a new tagging system, it was also made clear that this system was closed, which meant that we supplied the tags you all could select from. The primary reasoning behind this closed system was to reduce what I …
When we launched the site upgrade and announced that we had a new tagging system, it was also made clear that this system was closed, which meant that we supplied the tags you all could select from. The primary reasoning behind this closed system was to reduce what I …
December 08, 2011
Note: This post contains images from the next version of our site from areas still under development and are subject to change
In shaping our future we have developed a number of principles that will shape our future direction in a way that will be very positive for the game development community. …
In shaping our future we have developed a number of principles that will shape our future direction in a way that will be very positive for the game development community. …
November 28, 2011
[size="3"]The Series:
- Content Revamp Part 1: Developer Journals
- Content Revamp Part 2: Categories and Forums
[size="3"]Overview
The addition of tags to the Invision suite of products is, in our view, one of the more significant steps forward with their latest version of the software. Tagging has proven…
November 09, 2011
In my last entry, I discussed how we were looking to revamp the Developer Journals section of the website, and in this entry I'm going to talk more about how the new site version will handle article categories and forums.
[size="3"]Ove…
October 27, 2011
Alright folks, last week Mike gave you all a preview of what the new front page will look like. I'm here now to discuss in more detail the way you will be browsing content on GDNet with the latest revision of the website interface. There's a lot to discuss, so I'm breaking this up into multiple jou…
October 19, 2011
We're feverishly working towards completing the next iteration of our site. Our goal is to have it out this quarter. As mentioned in my previous staff entry, we are going to be doing a lot with this site to make GameDev.net a great place to share development information with your fellow members.…
September 07, 2011
When you've been around as long as GameDev.net (12+ years) you see a lot of stuff happen around the industry. During that time we moved in different directions as well. This lead us to implement features and resource collections that at this point we no longer consider that important, but have ke…
September 02, 2011
The GameDev.net Wiki (GDWiki) has not seen a lot of attention from us on staff for a number of reasons, the largest one simply being a lack of resources. This has been the case for quite some months now, even before the switch to the new site. The wiki was originally based off of the Game Programmi…
July 18, 2011
Firstly, this is not a post describing how we will solve the rating/reputation system. That is still an ongoing process that will require further discussion internally, with the mods and with the general community. We invite you to continue to leave your thoughts/suggestions and responses to the on…
June 07, 2011
We're going to start seeing some of the benefits of switching over to an off-the-shelf forum system very soon. Invision Power Systems, the company that makes our forum software, is currently beta testing the next version of their forum suite right now on their site at http://community.invisionpowe…
May 27, 2011
Over the last two years I have been personally meeting with several people behind various other independently-owned game development websites. Sharing drinks at various conference parties, we've all had many a conversation about ways that we can work together to better serve our audience in mutuall…
May 22, 2011
We dedicated the month of May to "make things better". To that end we are working on things that have been long-standing issues that have been on our TODO list forever. The reason for a lack of recent staff updates has been that bug fixes make for kind of boring news since they really address ho…
April 27, 2011
Over the past week and a half I've been spending the majority of my time going through the archives of articles and making sure they are formatted properly, images are included, source files are attached, that sort of thing. For most of the time I'm simply going in article number order, one after a…
April 21, 2011
We've introduced an old favorite for syntax highlighting code in our forums and journals. In addition to the standard [ code ] tags that exist now, we have introduced a tag that we used to use readily in past versions of GameDev.net. The "new" bbcode tag that is available for use is the [ source …
April 19, 2011
Last week we launched a pretty huge revision of our news system. In the past our news team has done an amazing job sifting through news and in some cases summarizing what we considered important. We have been actively listening to feedback regarding our news over the past week and have implemente…
April 13, 2011
One of the things we've always wanted to do at GameDev.net is to have a steady staff of news editors that provide you with the best source of original game development news around. The problem is this would take a lot more resources than we have available. Fortunately there is plenty of good news …
April 07, 2011
This past week I was finally able to start looking into the various problems that exist with our articles after they have been moved over from the old site. One of the main things that has been bugging people is that they aren't quite so easy to find these days. You can no longer run a search on ar…
March 29, 2011
Ahh.. I love spring and especially the start of baseball season. Things have been very busy at GameDev.net and there has been a ton of conversation and planning regarding the upcoming changes to GameDev.net. This is a very exciting time for the site as we'll be making some very big changes in th…
March 22, 2011
A lot has changed at GameDev.net in the last few months, and now that we're preparing to enter our next phase of improvements I'm starting to think that it might be time to explain some of the bigger picture stuff happening at GameDev.net, along with how we got to where we are today.
The last few ye…
The last few ye…
March 17, 2011
We're going to be launching a new area of the site shortly that has been a highly requested feature among content producers and independent software developers. Our GDNet Marketplace is YOUR store. What we're looking to do is find the very best content producers and developers that already create…
March 09, 2011
First off I'd like to reintroduce myself to those of you who don't know me. My name is Michael Tanczos, and I'm one of the original creators of Gamedev.net (along with Dave Astle, Kevin Hawkins, and John Munsch). We felt that it was about time that we start to improve our line of communications w…
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