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Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: DJ Omnimaga on December 06, 2005, 09:12:00 am

Title: A new coding utopia awaits
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 06, 2005, 09:12:00 am
Those who haven't visited the forums much lately probably noticed some slow but major changes again as well as banner slogan changes. Since the past days Omnimaga is going through a major change that will be important in its history. I am pleased to announce that the TI-85 archives are back and the front page is now the forums, the portal being now an alternate page due to non working redirection hack from Invisionfree.

And this is not the only update ;)

Omnimaga is no longer only RPG related, it's now also a programming group as well for all calculators as well as PC. As you can see the slogan changed from "Your Calculator RPGs Headquarter v2.0" to "A New Coding Utopia Awaits". Thanks to Necro for the name idea. :) Basically it's two website into one: you now have a section where you can download the best calculators RPGs in the community as well as discuss the featured ones under developpement and right under that you now have the staff project section. The current staff includes dragon__lance and necro, who are working on a joint Zelda-RPG project, CDI, who was a news editor here once, who is working on two RPG projects while bringning us Metroid on our 83+, BCturk, working on a Pirate action-RPG and Ranman, a senior member of the TI community who has been great support and currently working on a port of Ultima V classic to 68k calculators. Welcome to all those members to the team and we are working forwards for their awesome projects! :ru13z:

There are other staff that still need to be approved at the moment and we are still hiring so if you have nice projects and are willing to join send me a PM with projects you are working on and if possible screenshots of previous or current work and you might become part of our team. We accept computer, TI, Casio and HP programmers for any language! :)

UPDATE: Daniel Thorneycroft (tifreak8x) has been added to the team, but has been made Manager because he took the website link manager job as well whenever he has the time to work on it. He is working on a Pokémon Game and TI-City, a very massive text-based RPG based on Medieva for the TI-83+SE. Welcome to the team as well. :)

UPDATE (2005/12/07): Spellshaper has been added to the team.
Title: A new coding utopia awaits
Post by: Spellshaper on December 06, 2005, 09:33:00 am
Kevin u forgot an option: "Would like to join but probably don
Title: A new coding utopia awaits
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 06, 2005, 09:34:00 am
oops :Pblah.gif

*adds it now*

I hope you can still finish BM though :Dbiggrin.gif

I am still debating between voting for I dont have enough time as well instead of i am alerady in because I havent coded much lately :/  
Title: A new coding utopia awaits
Post by: Spellshaper on December 06, 2005, 09:37:00 am
yay 100% don
Title: A new coding utopia awaits
Post by: Master Jc on December 06, 2005, 09:54:00 am
Yay, good changes for all...  I also want to see what this group is made of!

Once I get a new USB cable...  :(sad.gif
Title: A new coding utopia awaits
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 06, 2005, 10:03:00 am
*cough*PTI*cough*
Title: A new coding utopia awaits
Post by: CDI on December 06, 2005, 10:12:00 am
*cough* *cough*
Title: A new coding utopia awaits
Post by: arti on December 06, 2005, 11:12:00 am
I'd like to join too! I'm working on a nice arcade-style game for the 68k calcs in C. However, due to current lack of time I will not reveal it, as I do not want to announce a project that might take longer than expected to be completed. Perhaps I will relese it this holiday season though, a Christmas Day or New Year's relese would kick ass :)smile.gif Oh, and this game I'll make will be multi-platform eventually: internet via Flash, calcs via C, and GP32/GP2X via C :)smile.gif
Title: A new coding utopia awaits
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 06, 2005, 11:39:00 am
well considering you are alerady managers what will happen is that once you work on it again and announce it you'll get a forum for it immediately, like tenniksid493 with The chosen one. :)smile.gif
Title: A new coding utopia awaits
Post by: tenniskid493 on December 06, 2005, 12:39:00 pm
Yea..thanx for that Kevin...it saves me having to code a webiste to host everything like screenshots and demos on
Title: A new coding utopia awaits
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 06, 2005, 12:40:00 pm
I might enable uploads in the future for staff but they will be periodically deleted once new updates come out because I only have 16 MB on IF forums
Title: A new coding utopia awaits
Post by: Ranman on December 06, 2005, 01:58:00 pm
I hope to see Dysfunction, TiFreak8x, and Spellshaper join the group if only part time. ;)wink.gif
Title: A new coding utopia awaits
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 06, 2005, 02:25:00 pm
well its kinda part time :)smile.gif basically you still code for calcs but get your projects featured on front page forums instead of in individual topics or sub-forums
Title: A new coding utopia awaits
Post by: tifreak on December 06, 2005, 02:45:00 pm
Yeah, yeah, I am pmin now... :)smile.gif

I still get to keep my own site, right?  B)cool.gif
Title: A new coding utopia awaits
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 06, 2005, 02:48:00 pm
of course :Dbiggrin.gif and dont shut it down Its awesome once it gets more programs I might come her emore to download my stuff O_Oshocked2.gif I had like 2 website when I was active in EPS (this one and my blog)

I remember putting both EPS and Omnimaga logo in my games. You can just put TIFW one and in the readme put the link to the logo :)smile.gif
Title: A new coding utopia awaits
Post by: tifreak on December 06, 2005, 02:59:00 pm
Yeah I can do that. I will put one to here as well... :Dbiggrin.gif
Title: A new coding utopia awaits
Post by: jonsnyder on December 06, 2005, 05:03:00 pm
Im in two catagories. Yes, but i doubt im good enough and I don't have enough time. I still need to complete my first game.
Title: A new coding utopia awaits
Post by: tenniskid493 on December 06, 2005, 05:27:00 pm
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QUOTE (xlibman @ 6 December 2005, 20:25)
well its kinda part time :)smile.gif basically you still code for calcs but get your projects featured on front page forums instead of in individual topics or sub-forums  

 Being staff wouldn't be much more work than you are probably already doing on your game.  I'd say go for it and maybe you'll get lucky.
Title: A new coding utopia awaits
Post by: dysfunction on December 06, 2005, 05:46:00 pm
Sorry Ranman, I don't plan to join, as I already discussed with Kevin on IM a few days ago. I'm done with programming groups, at least for a while... though I'll see. The only point in joining this group would be to be part of the community, and I already am, aren't I? I'll be here about as much as I would if I were on the team, I'll still work on the same projects, and give updates about as often.
Anyways, enough about me. Congrats to everyone who was hired!
Title: A new coding utopia awaits
Post by: Spellshaper on December 07, 2005, 01:58:00 am
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QUOTE (tenniskid493 @ 7 December 2005, 5:27)
Being staff wouldn't be much more work than you are probably already doing on your game.  I'd say go for it and maybe you'll get lucky.  

 If that
Title: A new coding utopia awaits
Post by: tenniskid493 on December 07, 2005, 02:04:00 am
Well, I'm not sure on all specifics of it (ask Kevin) but I'm pretty sure its just continuing working on your game and you get your progess posted on the front page instead of a sub forum.  You also get global moderator privelages but people at Omnimaga are really good about following the forum rules that you barely ever have to fix or change anyones posts.
Title: A new coding utopia awaits
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 07, 2005, 03:14:00 am
I agree with that stuff, staff wont have global moderator privilege like managers though, they can moderate their own projects forums as well as the free discussions but not the whole forum. They have a front page forum though.

I still hope to se you around dysfunction. What I fear now is that Revsoft is kinda inactive and it would be sad if their members left and decided to go all at MaxCoderz instead because in the big forums the only one I visit is UnitedTI so I would probably lose contact with lot of people in the community :(sad.gif
Title: A new coding utopia awaits
Post by: tifreak on December 07, 2005, 07:43:00 am
*Fixed front page news article, It said I was workin on a game for DOS, so I changed that to 83+SE...
Title: A new coding utopia awaits
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 07, 2005, 07:49:00 am
err yeah I must have misphrased it, I wanted to mean that your game was based on a DOS game, my bad :Pblah.gif
Title: A new coding utopia awaits
Post by: tenniskid493 on December 07, 2005, 08:05:00 am
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QUOTE (xlibman @ 7 December 2005, 9:14)
I agree with that stuff, staff wont have global moderator privilege like managers though, they can moderate their own projects forums as well as the free discussions but not the whole forum. They have a front page forum though.


Woops my bad.  :Dbiggrin.gif
Title: A new coding utopia awaits
Post by: tifreak on December 07, 2005, 10:46:00 am
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QUOTE (xlibman @ 7 December 2005, 13:49)
err yeah I must have misphrased it, I wanted to mean that your game was based on a DOS game, my bad :Pblah.gif

 It is based off a telnet game... :)smile.gif

Anywho, thanks for hiring me. Do you think I can get a forum just called Age of Darkness Series?  
Title: A new coding utopia awaits
Post by: saubue on December 07, 2005, 11:08:00 am
I already have a programming group; if I'd had none, I'd like to join for sure! :)smile.gif
Title: A new coding utopia awaits
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 08, 2005, 10:38:00 am
QuoteBegin-tifreak8x+7 December 2005, 16:46-->
QUOTE (tifreak8x @ 7 December 2005, 16:46)
QuoteBegin-xlibman+7 December 2005, 13:49-->
QUOTE (xlibman @ 7 December 2005, 13:49)
err yeah I must have misphrased it, I wanted to mean that your game was based on a DOS game, my bad :Pblah.gif

It is based off a telnet game... :)smile.gif

Anywho, thanks for hiring me. Do you think I can get a forum just called Age of Darkness Series?  

 hmm generally I put forums only for projects and since you discontinued AODR I deleted it :(sad.gif I though about putting an archive with links to old staff programs and have discussions for them