Offering Free hosting, new engine and forum

[Joseph DiPerla]

BE WARNED-- THE SITE IN WHICH I TALK ABOUT IS STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

I have been sending out e-mails to a few people, actually, a lot of people asking them what they would look for in an Adventure Game engine. So this site should now be public to everyone.

About two months ago, I contacted Thomas Mayer about his Engine he was working on. He always had made some promising stuff. I was wondering about its status. From then on we discussed a few things and he had decided to create a new Adventure game engine. He has decided to call the Engine "Scrub".

Let me give you some quick links to look at first and then I will explain some more about the site.

The site can be found here: www.scrubengine.com
The forum can be found here: www.scrubengine.com/forum
Board Rules: http://scrubengine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2
For some news: http://scrubengine.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=35
For some suggestions we could use: http://scrubengine.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=2

This is why you should begin making suggestions now, becouse development has not begun on the engine, but many of you know Thomas Mayer and know about his sciencefact game engine back in the day and even Sage Classic and SFCI.

Check out some links to his older stuff:
SFCI : http://www.tomkatgames.com/SFCI1.htm
Sciencefact Interactive Archived: http://web.archive.org/web/200201051106 ... index.html

You can check out his MobyGames profile here: http://www.mobygames.com/developer/shee ... Id,196072/

So, since he hasn't begun programming on it, making suggestions now would give him an idea of how he would go about it. So the sooner you get suggestions out there, the better.

Now on to the site... I didn't come here to promote this engine. Well, partly I did, but I also come here to get people to populate the site a bit. The site and its name is mostly focused on the engine. But it would be a lot more.

For one thing, it will contain free hosting. In fact, I offer that now. So check out the site. In the future we will become a commercial game company as well. If anyone is interested in joining the team to make adventure games, please e-mail me at [email protected].

The site like I said offers hosting. For now, the hosting will be completely free. I might even setup a MySQL database for you and a your own personal forum.

What else do you get for being hosted on the site? Here is a list of features:
*[email protected] email address.
*Support for PHP
*Real Audio and Video
*Streaming audio
*External Linking
*FTP access to your folder.
*Space allowed? 500 megabytes. If you need more for a promising reason, I will give you more.

Okay, okay what are the requirements? Here they are:
*You can host anything you want, as long as its Adventure Game related. It could be a site that reviews games or previews games. It could be a blog site about Adventure games, It could be even a site on Adventure E-zines. Or if you are making a game, you could host it on mine. You can even transfer all your AGS made games to my site.
*You must include a link to the Scrub main site (www.scrubengine.com)
*When we have a banner or small button image, you must include it somewhere on every page of your site. This is, sorry to say, for promotional reasons.
*No Porn material, or links. Nothing illegal or that would get me arrested.
*If you have resources and games and certain public files, You must allow me to include it on a CD for redistribution on Cafepress.com or lulu.com. The disc would be compiled with other material from the site. The reason for this is becouse the more people join the site and the more popular it gets, the more money I will need to pay for it to stay up. This is mostly for bandwidth and Disk Space. Sorry.

It will also be a site about Adventure Games. So check out the site and make the forums active. Thanks.

Just for your info, some of the boards in the forum are to discuss specifically the following:

The Scrub Engine.
Games you have made in any engine.
Adventure Game Talk
Sierra/LEC Games
Games your making
Finding a team for your project
Specific boards for specific programming languages such as VB, c/C++ , C#, PDA, Reverse Engineering and general programming.
Emulation and other stuff
Art help and much much more. Check it out. Populate it. I am pretty sure you will enjoy participating in the forums as you wait for the site to grow.

Thanks, and I hope this doesn't count as Spam as I am offering something to the community.

[Neo]

Have you considered using SMF for your forum?
http://www.simplemachines.org

[AGI1122]

Yeah SMF is a whole lot better than phpBB. And way more secure as well.