User:Invisionary

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Invisionary -- also known as "Boy of the Laurel Wreath" -- is the creator of the Independent Game Development Directory "Pax Tsukuru" and is the resident diplomat. [Be wary.]

[edit] History

Invisionary has been a spectre to the RPG Maker community for several years, but only decided to become involved in it after receiving hosting as a birthday present on January 3rd, 2006. Professing to be a neutral party, he began work on his brainchild, titled "Pax Tsukuru". The simple services provided by his work became a source of intentionally silent fame among the webmasters and staff of Pax Tsukuru's "member" sites and its "registered creators."

[edit] Pax Tsukuru

Logo

Pax = Latin word which means "time of wide-ranging stability".
Tsukuru = Japanese word which means to "make" or "create."
Pax Tsukuru = Cross-lingual pun meaning "a time of stability for the makers."

[edit] Concept

The "ultra-independent" game development field is at war with itself. It has been in this territorial dispute for over a decade. The territory in question... is manpower.

The communities of these mediums claw at every opportunity to recruit gamers towards using their medium. Blindly doing so, when a gamer delves into the engine or method and finds it to be not worth their time, they usually quit the field entirely and their potential future as an independent game developer is wasted. For the want of manpower, quite a number of potential greats have passed through this war and were decimated by it.

Each community constantly tries to assert that their engine or method is the best, never realizing that they perpetuate this stupid war each time they do. The ultra-independent game development field shouldn't be cut-throat to survive in.

Pax = Latin word which means "time of wide-ranging stability". Tsukuru = Japanese word which means to "make" or "create." Pax Tsukuru = Cross-lingual pun meaning "a time of stability for the makers."

We the anti-war effort, Pax Tsukuru. We are color-blind to the war raging around us. C++ VS. Sphere VS. Python, etc. None of that matters, their uniforms all look the same to us. Why is community fighting community? What good could it accomplish? Why can't we all just accept that different people have different tastes in what they want to have to do to be a creator?

Join Pax Tsukuru, and assert your neutrality.

We are an not-for-profit organization, as in done-for-fun!

[edit] Services

Directory of its members and games.
- Flexible search term system : Search terms can be added onto the end of the homepage URL to narrow results.

Games : igdd.org/write/search/terms/here
Members : igdd.org/members/write/search/terms/here

Every member is listed by what engines/methods it supports.
Every game is listed using various "tags"

Genres : Strictly referring to interface aspects
Themes : Strictly referring to environment aspects
Engine/Method : The medium the game was made in.
Condition : The game's stage of development.

NOTE: Only these tags have valid search terms. Using anything other than the tags listed here will generate an error.
Every day, a random member and game are "featured" on practically every page in the IGDD. (The only time this isn't true is when someone searches with only one search term.)
The member and game with the latest news are displayed on the homepage.

Generated from the RSS feed.

A dynamically-generated RSS news feed!

Valid RSS!
Members and Creators can post to the feed at any time.
You can point your RSS reader to this URL or to simply http://www.IGDD.org

Java "anytime anywhere" Chatroom

Rights within the "lobby" room

"Representatives" from the various member sites get "operator" status

If more than one category of engine/method is supported, "half-operator" status may be given at Invisionary's discretion

General staff get "voice" status
Creators of registered games also get "voice" status

Member staff and registered creators can choose to get a "nameplate" which replaces their name in the chat.
Members can opt for their own room and have the IGDD Javachat allow access to it.

Google Custom Search bar can be used to search all content related to IGDD.org

Began crawling recent content as of 7-7-07 (PTv4's release date)

Publically-available web statistics.

[edit] Contact Info

AIM: Indy Game Dev Dir
MSNM: Webmaster@IGDD.org
Email: Webmaster@IGDD.org
Chat: http://www.IGDD.org/chat
IRC: irc://irc.whahay.net/IGDD.org

[edit] External Links

IGDD.org - Independent Game Development Directory
IGDD.org/members - Member Directory
IGDD.org/games - Game Directory
IGDD.org/about - About Pax Tsukuru
IGDD.org/join - Join Pax Tsukuru
IGDD.org/chat - IGDD.org Chat!
IGDD.org/faq - Frequently Asked Questions
IGDD.org/rss - RSS Feed

Invisionary 625 edits since September 22, 2006