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Re: Gamebuino Games

PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 10:47 pm
by matt
Have you looked at GitLab? whenever I think of repos of things I think of it. It has a built in issue tracking system... and if you checkout digitalocean.com for hosting they have one-click deploy of it!^^ Hope that helps!

Re: Gamebuino Games

PostPosted: Thu Jun 26, 2014 7:59 am
by rodot
Thanks for this suggestion :)
I already rent a server so that's not the problem ;)
I didn't find any way to sort projects by popularity on GitLab ?

Re: Gamebuino Games

PostPosted: Thu Jun 26, 2014 2:25 pm
by treflip
My two cents...

Have you seen TiCalc.org??? That to me is similar to this project in many ways (DIY'ers, Monochrome/Greyscale screens, Forum residence) and I see their community lasting so long because of the simplicity of their organization (Folders/SubFolders.. Tree system) and free programs/information.

If I need something I just go the site and use their tree system under my device model or search box it. I've never paid for a game but have given many thank you's to the developers that helped me understand something. There is no fee for any games/applications/utilities on their sites but some sell with links to other sites (Calc Made Easy, Davinci projects used to be for sale). However the applications that sell are mainly for math and rarely(ever?) do I see a game being sold.

As Drakkar said the Gambuino project is based on a community of DIY'ers and I for one wouldn't be anywhere if I had to pay for the info I've read on Arduino's website and other MCU blog's. Not to be too opinionated, but I for one am just ready to pay-it-forward so to speak with both my games and knowledge of making them.

... this is just my two cents though!

Please improve the way projects are listed

PostPosted: Fri Jul 04, 2014 3:40 pm
by inversesandwich
The current way that code is posted is horrible.

What happens is that someone creates a cool game, then decides to upgrade it by posting code in another post. Then someone else suggests a change. Suddenly the code is scattered everywhere, with out of date versions etc.

The simple solution is a code repository. Github is my favourite (because as a student I get a discounted subscription :) yay!). No only is the code the latest possible, but it records version history so that you can go back if you messed up. Also, you can really easily accept code suggestions and it automatically credits them. And if you don't know how to use git, there are plenty of tutorials and videos etc.

So I urge you to store code using some form of code repo please!

Moderator : topic moved to "Website & Forum" and merged

Re: Please improve the way projects are listed

PostPosted: Fri Jul 04, 2014 3:53 pm
by rodot
Yup I agree with you, that's why I already implemented that on the wiki for all the examples to be up to date with the latest version of the library.

About people games it's more complicated. It's not just about having your code somewhere, I would like to have an actual game gallery, with game categories, user rating, sorting by number of downloads and stuff like that.

BTW GitHub is free if your code is open source. Some people suggested GitLab too.

Re: Please improve the way projects are listed

PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2014 6:37 pm
by zerosimms
inversesandwich wrote:The current way that code is posted is horrible.

What happens is that someone creates a cool game, then decides to upgrade it by posting code in another post. Then someone else suggests a change. Suddenly the code is scattered everywhere, with out of date versions etc.

The simple solution is a code repository. Github is my favourite (because as a student I get a discounted subscription :) yay!). No only is the code the latest possible, but it records version history so that you can go back if you messed up. Also, you can really easily accept code suggestions and it automatically credits them. And if you don't know how to use git, there are plenty of tutorials and videos etc.

So I urge you to store code using some form of code repo please!

Moderator : topic moved to "Website & Forum" and merged


Just so you know, bitbucket is free for private projects ;)

Re: Please improve the way projects are listed

PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 12:43 am
by inversesandwich
zerosimms wrote:
inversesandwich wrote:The current way that code is posted is horrible.

What happens is that someone creates a cool game, then decides to upgrade it by posting code in another post. Then someone else suggests a change. Suddenly the code is scattered everywhere, with out of date versions etc.

The simple solution is a code repository. Github is my favourite (because as a student I get a discounted subscription :) yay!). No only is the code the latest possible, but it records version history so that you can go back if you messed up. Also, you can really easily accept code suggestions and it automatically credits them. And if you don't know how to use git, there are plenty of tutorials and videos etc.

So I urge you to store code using some form of code repo please!

Moderator : topic moved to "Website & Forum" and merged


Just so you know, bitbucket is free for private projects ;)


I have a bitbucket account, I just like github.

I do like the idea of gitlab tho. Rolling Gamebuino's own self-hosted solution would be nice.

Re: Gamebuino Games

PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 5:17 pm
by rodot
I've been thinking about the best way for people to share their Gamebuino games and programs. For me the best solution seems to be the following:

- You put your game on GitHub. On your repo you include source code, binaries, and a nice README.md which presents your game in detail with pictures and all. This way people can fork it, etc.
- On the wiki, on the page "games" I'm gonna create a table/list template for everybody to be able to add their own game (a quick description, a small picture and a link to their GitHub). I'll try to add some sorting features too.

Does that sounds good to you guys?

Re: Gamebuino Games

PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 5:31 pm
by zerosimms
Sounds like a plan Batman!

Re: Gamebuino Games

PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 12:01 am
by rodot
Here is my ongoing work on a new game list... wow, much fancy.
I'm pretty happy, I made everything, all the templates, style sheet, icons, etc. and it starts to look not that bad.