Slashdot Mirror
Announcing Games.slashdot.org
The Slashdot Game Section will function similiarly to the other major sections on Slashdot, like apple.slashdot.org and Ask Slashdot. Visitors to the direct URL will be presented with additional, more focused, topical content. The best stories in the section will be posted to the main page and shared with a more general audience as they always have been. Logged in users can choose to consolidate Games content to the main page.
You'll notice a few things in the game section that are new. Most important is the addition of our newest editor, Simon "Simoniker" Carless. Simon is a sharp guy who has written for a variety of publications, but also is uniquely qualified since he has a history as a game designer for Eidos & Atari. Backing up Simon is the man of many polls himself, Jon "CowboyNeal" Pater. CowboyNeal is an obsessive gamer, having sacrificed his body for years to become a better gamer. We'll all benefit from his efforts in the field of sitting, pressing buttons and eating snacks.
The Slashdot Game Section will cover a variety of game related material. We will not be limited by platform- we intend to cover the major consoles, new and old releases, as well as computing games. We want to cover classic gaming as well as emulation. We intend to provide occasional original coverage, but mostly, we want to provide more exposure to the existing gaming sites, while providing our users with a place to discuss the major gaming news of the day.
Initially content will be found in the overflow from the Slashdot submissions bin. But as the section grows, we expect that readers will use the Games Submissions Bin to submit stories directly to Simoniker and CowboyNeal. You can also contact them directly by emailing games at slashdot dot org.
We've been looking forward to creating this section for a long time, and I hope you will all enjoy reading it as much as we'll enjoy researching stories for it ;)
Ive been following this for the last couple of days, first i was looking through the Icons list and notice lots of ones with the (games) tag but nothing in - thats odd??. :-)
Then i notice some things being posted under a games.slashdot.org. Odd never seen that before, and its not in the sections, must have missed it...
Now it all makes sense
Anything that means you can waste more time on slashdot when you need to do work cant be bad.
What prompted the move to ads in a slashbox at the side then??
Slashdot - The one stop shop for procrastination
Perhaps dupes.slashdot.org? For all those other dupes there hasn't been room for on the home page!
Please change it? Ouch.....
The blue on black theme is messing with my head.
Otherwise, good idea.
Will this be added to the Section bar on the right-hand side?
Why not make a Microsoft.slashdot.org for all the M$ bashing? Or a Linux.slashdot.org for all the linux lovers (or is that www.slashdot.org)? What about freaking-stupid-legal-system.slashdot.org for all the people that get arrested and/or fined for doing things that shouldn't be illegal in the first place?
"It's better to have a gun and not need it than need a gun and not have it." ~ Christian Slater, True Romance
Well, whoever this new guy is, he certainly isn't a graphic designer.
Oww! My retinas! I'll never play Conterstrike again!!! You bastards!
'He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.' - Douglas Adams
Great... my proxy at work will probally block this
JESUS...the purple is sensory OVERLOAD. I'm not so sure that the first thing you want to see when you put down your sniper rifle, take off your night-vision goggles and exit the game is a bright white and purple webpage...
I mean...don't get me wrong, the slashdot logo looks cool like that...but so much purple detail all over the place? it's just too much
In other news: DUDE! Games.slashdot.org! COOL!
"p2p stabbing is such a vast, untapped market"
For years Slashdot has had an abundance of game related content. Unfortunately, we've also had limited space to post those stories
You'd have more room if you'd read your own web site and stop posting so many duplicate stories.
Ok, I love slashdot and all, but seriously...
worst. colors. ever.
At least what.. 10 references to that site per day? Better to keep them all in one location to save our sanity ;)
The gaming section colour scheme: 1) Hurts my eyes 2) Gives me a nice tan when I view it on my CRT 3) Features a new colour, infra-purple 4) Is even more garish than Barney the dinosaur 5) Clashes with CowboyNeal's underpants
"We intend to provide occasional original coverage, but mostly, we want to provide more exposure to the existing gaming sites [...]"
Could this be a hint to a slashdot game reviews feature similiar to the current book reviews?
...I hope so
Bored with karma, be a fan/freak
A section which I can waste more time on and go blind. No wait should this be pr0n.slashdot.org then :P
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I've had /. as my home page for some time now, but have constantly needed to resort to other game sites for my gaming information. This is great news, I was hoping for it.
Though, if it's videogames that make you guys believe purple on white is a good colour scheme, then maybe videogames truly *are* bad.
OK, Netcraft shows:
/.'ed too quickly.
The site games.slashdot.org is running Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.19.1a mod_perl/1.27 mod_ssl/2.8.10 OpenSSL/0.9.6g on Linux
Linux on an Xbox? Dreamcast? What? GBA maybe? Nah, it'd get
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Random, useless fact: I type in startx entirely with my left hand.
As a compulsive gamer, my eyes are already in a pretty bad shape. Please, please change the color. Dark green perhaps?
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
I expect the Xbox category to be especially fair and objective.
The coolest voice ever.
Great news about the new section, but what good is it if we can't read it? The colours are blinding and SUPER saturated -- you guys should know that one of the first rules of good layout is to AVOID using garish, high-intensity, saturated colours on the periphery that might distract readers. Come on, guys! Your developers section has great colours -- medium intensity, not too saturated. You really kind of dropped the ball on this one ...
-A.
student of animation and the fine arts
I really don't see why this hasn't been done earlier and why it's considered such an event. I guess the theme took about 3 minutes to complete, and then I assume - given the color scheme - a blind guy was doing the work.
I have a suggestion for a new URL: How about whineybutt.slashdot.org ? 80% of the posts(Please, don't check the exact percentage and post it...I know you people) are complaints about how the color sucks (hard to defend) or how half the other stories should have thier own pages, as they should *never* have been posted on /.
Congrats /.! Best of luck with your expansion.
OK, we need to establish some ground rules early on. We bash XBox, PS2, Gamecube in that order. And I think we all agree the SNES was the best console ever :)
Everybody denies I am a genius--but nobody ever called me one!
Now I gotta start a new character, run him up to level 60, find a new group of people to guild with.... So much to do...
Looks like my game made it on Slashdot. Not exactly front page, but I'm not gonna complain :-)
;-)
I strongly urge everyone to head on over to http://lotgd.sourceforge.net and play on your lunch break, this is a well done game even if I do say so myself
Slay a dragon... over lunch!
http://slashdot.org/games/ also works, as does http://slashdot.org/index.pl?section=games ...
a cheap giveaway like a subscription for slashdot for someone to design a cool logo and come up with a color scheme ? Am sure there are many talented ones out there who would like to get their work displayed !
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Nope, I wont be. The purple-white gradient with white text is rather painful on the eyes. After all the flak this site cops for the fugly, motherboard green layout of the main page this is not an improvement.
Nice concept, but badly executed in my opinion. Let's hope it gets touched up a fraction.
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The current colour, Electric Blue aka #3300CC, is very harsh on the eyes, as many have already made clear.
I recommend using #330066 or #330099 instead. These browser-safe colours are easier on the eyes and more aesthetically pleasing.
Cheers,
CD
Use ISO 8601 dates [YYYY-MM-DD]
Maybe with this as a viable public forum, John Romero will finally make good on his promise to make us his bitch. Come on, John-boy, ante up.
News for Blinds. Stuff that dazzle.
it looks like http://games.slashdot.org/games.rss works.
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...are those colours guaranteed to render identically on Windows and Mac machines with 256 colour displays. This means that dithering [combining two colours to create a third, with grainy results] is avoided.
There are 216 such colours, and a very easy way exists to work them out. Each colour channel [red, blue and green] should be any of the hexadecimal values 00, 33, 66, 99, CC and FF. For instance, 66CC99 means 66 red, CC green and 99 blue.
In decimal notation, this translates to multiples of 51. So 00 == 00, 33 == 51, 66 == 102, 99 == 153, CC == 204, FF == 255.
Most displays can now display well over 256 colours, but it is considered good website design practice to stick to them.
Use ISO 8601 dates [YYYY-MM-DD]
I like the colors. I say keep 'em.
One thing I note, however, is that the games section is not in the slashboxes yet. Hopefully this will be remedied soon.
Also, why is it that the Collapse Stories preference works exactly the opposite of the way it is indicated? Collapse Stories implies that I only get main stories. Unchecking that should get me all stories from all sections.
I had to check it to get all stories from all sections. That's kida opposite, isn't it? All stories from all sections should be the *default* preference, too.
"Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised."
-Marilyn Manson
I hope to see other than comp-based games on this page. I've discovered the fun with MechWarrior and am a long-standing Magic player. I'd love to see these kinds of games covered in this forum.
Tell me, what was more important, that dupe story that you always post, CmdrTaco, or some story about how some Free Software package is at its 0.3.4 release. Maybe the story that was posted 2 days ago on LinuxToday.
Please, you can come up with whatever reason you want for things, its your site, but don't be so blatant about it. You never passed on a story because something else was too important, unless it was 9/11 and someone submitted a review of what they'll think the next Duke Nukem will be about. You spell words wrong, you never check your sources, you never even check your own site (sometimes on the same goddamn page) to see if a story has already been posted. You're a goddamn idiot, and you should stop trying to act smart.
Of course now they'll just block all of Slashdot.org, sigh...
This color will keep me and probably others from the page. Could it be changed?
Slashdot has about the ugliest layout of any major site out there. And this hideous 'games' theme is the worst. Why don't you guys hire a real graphics designer? Other OSDN sites aren't even as bad.
Totally friggn' lame, IMO.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Allow users to choose color scheme in preferences? You can enforce a default, and all the whiners can tweak it to their hearts' content.
Hasn't anyone added a patch to slashcode that actually uses CSS? Jeez.
But I do like the idea. games.slashdot.org and science.slashdot.org... and I wonder where does the time go? ^_^
Fuck Beta. Fuck Dice
Logged in users can choose to consolidate Games content to the main page.
How does one do that?
-Enfors-
I think that as a group we will agree that the Dreamcast was the best console, but whenever put to the question, or defense we will cite the Atari, or a collection of door games as being the true backbone of our civilization.
We will also praise the game civilization.
That is all.
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Thanks. Ever read an 800-page book where you're not sure how to pronounce the main character's name? Just wanted to avoid that feeling here...
Now, where's Pr0n.slashdot.org ?
It's Christmas everyday with BitTorrent.
pudge: Mary-Kate and Ashley Girls Night Out
Nice to see pudge indulging his adolescent fantasies...
Use ISO 8601 dates [YYYY-MM-DD]
Like duuuuuuuuuudddee! Purple, like, rocks dude! If the old guys don't like it it *must* be cool, dude! Rock on! I'm sooooo cool and, like, even groundbreaking 'cuz I said I like the purple - dude!
I'm, like, sooooo cool, even if I am still a virgin, and like, the only girl who'll look at me is the one on my new XBox game....
My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?
May I suggest a simple fix:
ZAPWorks great, I use it a lot.
And Games.Slashdot is suddenly a lot easier on the eyes...
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Agreed.
Why not a pixellated version of the logo instead? That purple.. burns..
Tho color is a lot more tolerable if the saturation is reduced. Here is a comparsion The original color is the 100% saturated one.
I would like to see a scripting.slashdot.org for news about perl, python, ruby etc.
Is someone (CmdrTaco) thinking about this?
Suckage is bad! Give the gaming site a redesign. Puuleeze!
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
hah you told an AC troll to check his facts, welcome to slashdot ;)