Game Devigner

To My Readers – Some Changes

by Paolo on Jun.22, 2009, under Meanderings

With the few comments I’ve gotten, it has reinforced some of the things I will be doing to the blog.

When I originally started the blog, I grabbed a pretty Wordpress Theme and modified it.  With some tweaking, I made some of my own changes, but found them inadequate.  Now that I am more comfortable with Wordpress and PHP, I will be doing some radical changes soon, among them is switching from white text on black background to black text on white.  According to most studies, it is better for readability.  And besides, black backgrounds are so 90s!

I will be laying out the site to be more vertical friendly which will allow for more posts per page.  Also I will be reorganizing all my categories and tags specifically for Game Design, Story Design, Industry News, Theory and Indie Spirit.  Also, I will be placing my current prototypes and published games prominently on the page so people can see what I am currently working on.  Space ROX and Strike Eagle are ancient history on my blog and they should be placed prominently on the front.

Also, for those who hate Captcha, I have enabled the ability for people to register on the site to make comments.  Please let me know if you have any trouble registering.

Here are my current projects that I am working on:

  • Freelancing – Website modifications for a client
  • Freelancing – Secure Website Application in ASP.NET for an overseas client
  • Game Project – Summer game to be completed by August
  • GameDevigner.com – Website redesign
  • GameDevigner.com – Prototype-A-Week to be started by September

I took some time to recouperate some energy on Father’s Day.  There is a lot ahead of me.   Most of all, I hope to make some great games for all of you, and make this blog a happening place.  I’ll be getting more technical as my freelancing dies down and I start focusing more on game programming near the end of the summer.  Expect some radical changes to the site design and layout.

Also, I will be keeping “GameDevigner.com” as my blog.  But I will start moving all my published games towards “GameDiviner.com” as a portal for the games and prototypes I will be making.  I think that “Game Diviner” has a stronger potential for branding for a future game company.  However, as a persona, I love the word “Devigner” and will be keeping it for my own personal blog.

And please, plenty of feedback is welcome as these things happen!  (Or even better, before they happen!)

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1 comment for this entry:
  1. Freelance Flash Games

    I\’m interested to see what your new site will look like. And I like the idea for the flash games portal, gamediviner definitely sounds like a game portal.

    What will you be using for the portal? I know emanuele recently released a plugin for making one in wordpress.

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