Restoring the former glory of Pixelation!

[Seiseki]

So, having looked a bit at the stats on the bottom of the page, it seems like there's a steady decline in recent years.
I thought that the rise of indie games like Minecraft would have more of an effect, but I guess most of those guys go to tigs or PJ.

I doubt we could actually reach the former "glory days", which seems to be in 2007-2008.
But it would still be nice to boost the stats a bit, especially the amount of replies which are at an all-time low. So threads are still being made, but they're not getting much attention.

I think the first thing needed is to bring back the old skin! The forums lack the former serious/slightly intimidating aura that the skin brought.
The current skin is just so uninspiring, I can promise that there will be a stats boost when the new skin is implemented.

I also think we need more activities, the Totem pole was really fun and a nice initiative, but it didn't get any closure?
I'd love to start an activity thread, but I'd have to do some planning first.

Tile-based collaborations haven't been done in years it seems, would be awesome to have a new one of those.

[Corinthian Baby]

I'd like to see some more commercial critiques. I know I have some ideas for some. Or more stuff like Helm's cluster study from Altered Beast, which was awesome.

[PixelPiledriver]

the Totem pole was really fun and a nice initiative, but it didn't get any closure?

I apologize for that.
Just a case of bad timing for me.

[Seiseki]

the Totem pole was really fun and a nice initiative, but it didn't get any closure?

I apologize for that.
Just a case of bad timing for me.

Yeah no problem, it's was awesome anyways.
We just need more people to start activities.

I was actually thinking, since collaborations are quite popular.
What if someone would code a forum script, allowing people to select a tile and upload an image (or enter an address for remote hosted).
The tile would appear as 'reserved by <username>' and only that user could upload a tile in that place.
An overlapping tile system could be used for isometric.

I'm wondering what a coder would charge to develop something like that.
If people here are interested we could try some kind of donation drive to get a system like that in place.

I'd also be willing to pay someone just to get the forum skin in place

[Crow]

I'm wondering what a coder would charge to develop something like that.

Nothing, as I am the one coding here, and I could see myself implementing something similar in the future I do have some nifty plans for the forums, and ptoing is working on the skin, or so I hope. So far, I've done some talking with him, and I still need to talk with the others about my ideas and plans. Don't expect any miracles, though. I'm also quite busy myself, and big changes can take a while.

[Ryumaru]

I really enjoyed commercial critiques and the activities that coincided with them. It would be especially cool to take one game that was well received in it's time with mostly subpar graphics, and  have an activity where it's spruced up.



I might just be looking for an excuse to revamp pokemon red/blue.

[Crow]

I might just be looking for an excuse to revamp pokemon red/blue.

My god, I was thinking Pokemon Red/Blue when I read that last sentence of your first paragraph.

[Seiseki]

I might just be looking for an excuse to revamp pokemon red/blue.

My god, I was thinking Pokemon Red/Blue when I read that last sentence of your first paragraph.

That would be awesome in so many ways!

I'm wondering what a coder would charge to develop something like that.

Nothing, as I am the one coding here, and I could see myself implementing something similar in the future I do have some nifty plans for the forums, and ptoing is working on the skin, or so I hope. So far, I've done some talking with him, and I still need to talk with the others about my ideas and plans. Don't expect any miracles, though. I'm also quite busy myself, and big changes can take a while.

That would awesome. But I'd still be willing to pay for it and I'm sure others would too..

Which reminds me, wasn't there a donation button?
Would be cool if you could donate and receive a forum badge or something for a limited time, how is the forum funded by the way?

[Carnivac]

I doubt we could actually reach the former "glory days", which seems to be in 2007-2008.

I consider the 'glory days' to be way before then.  Perhaps around 2003 or 2004 back on the old blue and black site with the bruce lee banner.  But that may just be when I was more heavily into it all.  Perhaps one was a golden age and one a silver? 

And oh god I just felt so old then realising the era I mention is about a decade ago now... argh...

[Seiseki]

Woha, the stats do not go that far back..
And no wonder they were glory days, when the gameboy advance was the current gen handheld.
Not much going on for indies and the pc market though..

Haha, oh man..

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