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From: "Steve Dunn" <stevedunn@dial.pipex.com>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english
Subject: Re: Site restructuring suggestions.
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 17:26:56 -0000
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>
>I think you need a real/fictional
website editor we can talk to. Maybe
they
>could be a rad japanese game designer
with a rad name like 'Sosumi
>Motospazi' but then again you probably
have better ideas. What would be
>great would be if the website turned
into more of a games designing
>magazine, with articles like Edge but
with more code and less pathetic macho
>posturing.
    I read Edge this morning.  The
postman was walking along the street
reading it, and said 'hey, dya know
Grame Evans is in this issue ?'.  Can I
have your autograph ?
>
>Anyway thats what I came up with in the
shower this morning. C'mon 500
>people post your great ideas here.
>
    Not really being for expressing my
opinion, but I'll have a go.
Hooowwwwwww 'bout a 'resources' page.
It's all very well having tons of demos,
but what would be nice is a seperate
section listing;
Models
Sprites
Backgrounds
Sounds
C++ Classes
C functions.

All with a nice 'preview' button next to
em.  That'd be nice.  I could help with
the classes section.  In face, funny I
should mention that,  I've got a
minituare vesion of this on my home-page
(~steved).

Steve



>Definitely
>
>        rad website == rad demos
>
>I'd like to see some rad graphics.
Personally I like the twee hello kitty
>stylee skateboards and stuff on scei,
gives the place a bit of culture and
>might make the long haired marlboro red
smokering 'Yes'-listening scum on
>scee.yaroze.profile choke on their M&Ms
dipped in nescafe granules.
>
>Then again I guess SCEE bods hate
cultural imperialism and want to feel
like
>theyre doing their own thing so why not
commission some student at a local
>art college to redesign in some style
likely to inspire us to think about
>designing great game demos, cos
basically the site/program as it stands
>looks like it was made by tech support
engineers who know the API.
>
>I think you need a real/fictional
website editor we can talk to. Maybe
they
>could be a rad japanese game designer
with a rad name like 'Sosumi
>Motospazi' but then again you probably
have better ideas. What would be
>great would be if the website turned
into more of a games designing
>magazine, with articles like Edge but
with more code and less pathetic macho
>posturing. Maybe you could persuade one
of your ultra-enthusiastic team
>leaders at SCEE to write a fortnightly
game diary so we can follow the games
>designing process on a real game
("look, just don't mention GTE
>instructions"). You might even
commission some down-at-heel drunken
hack to
>do some interviews on game mechanics.
I'm sure it wouldnt cost that much
>compared to a days tech support
engineer time.
>
>An official 'free stuff for Yaroze
kids' page might be nice, I'm sure we
can
>send you lots of share/freeware links
to fill it cos at the moment that info
>is scattered in a thousand corners.
>
>Anyway thats what I came up with in the
shower this morning. C'mon 500
>people post your great ideas here.
>
>