Welcome to the new Gaming Forum! It has been suggested to re-introduce a gaming centered forum and, considering we on MFGG have a long history that could be considered related to gaming, here it is! [b]Trial run[/b] However, before we can fully welcome this board in our family, we'll have a trial run of about 1 month. If there is too little activity or the forum causes more trouble than it's worth, it will be axed again. Let's take this opportunity to prove to ourselves, that a gaming forum is really what MFGG needed all the time, by keeping this forum clean, organized, informative and of course fun. Have a look at the [url=http://phpbb.mfgg.net/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=16000]Gaming Forum Rules[/url] topic before you post. Please understand, happy posting! PS: If you have any suggestions related to this forum, post them in here.

I am pleased

All of a sudden there's a new change. I am happy that gaming related topics finally separated from general chat for organization.

Guinea, is the trial run over? I can still see the trial run despite it's already May.

[quote="Jaden1291 the Toad"]Guinea, is the trial run over? I can still see the trial run despite it's already May.[/quote] It hasn't been a month yet. Not that it matters, this seems to be going pretty well so I don't see why they wouldn't keep the gaming forum.

Yeah, I'd be OK with keeping the Gaming Forum. I can't think of a lot of reasons to scrap it.

[quote="VinnyVideo"]Yeah, I'd be OK with keeping the Gaming Forum. I can't think of a lot of reasons to scrap it.[/quote] To do so, is to invoke the wrath of Sithis. Really though, the gaming forum seems to be doing really well. We should definitely keep it.

Now all that's missing is a CCC.

What's CCC? Crowd Control Cruiser?

The CCC? Oh yeah, that's the [color=orange]Civilian Conservation Corps[/color], where young unemployed MFGGers go to plant trees and make America great.

Casual Conversation Castle? I'd prefer a Pointless Post Palace CCCombo breaker

The CCC/PPP has been the root of a mass multitude of problems in the past. As much as we all miss it, (And yes, I miss it too) it's just a bad idea, because it would attract the wrong type of crowd to MFGG.

What if it was hidden for each member until they've made more than 200 non spam posts?

That's what the CCC has tried. It lead to a divide between those that had access and those that didn't. Exclusive forums are rarely a good idea, at least in MFGG's history.

Forget the CCC/PPP, I miss the Arts Board.

[quote="Kritter"]Forget the CCC/PPP, I miss the Arts Board.[/quote] Graphics and Audio has more or less taken the place of that board entirely. Different name, but the same functionality still exists.

[quote="Nite Shadow"][quote="Kritter"]Forget the CCC/PPP, I miss the Arts Board.[/quote] Graphics and Audio has more or less taken the place of that board entirely. Different name, but the same functionality still exists.[/quote] Perhaps it needs a rename then, because i'm seeing plenty of topics in there that aren't related to fangames, but the board name (and its original intention) kind of suggests that's what its purpose is for. Plus, art isn't just graphics and audio.

You have a point, Kritter. Perhaps a name change would be appropriate. I'd like something that says "You can post art and game resources in me", maybe something like "Arts and Resources"?

Yeah something like that, I mean i'd like to see gaming resources posted still, but i'd also like to see people post other stuff like they do now with just posting art, or even someone posting a short story they wrote etc The forum description would need a slight change too I guess

From my time on MFGG I can make the following observations: 1. No PPP / CCC. It was defined as "where you make stupid posts" and on its best days was effectively a second General Chat. When MFGG was new and we were a very close-knit dozen or less members, this worked out. By the time we left the ezBoard it had effectively become the /b/ of MFGG (I admit my younger self was a partial contributor to that) and stayed that way from then on. 2. The forums are related to a fangame site, but forums are inherently community-orientated, so all the subforums should reflect this. 3. The moderators were not able to effectively police large numbers of individual forums, regardless of how many we had. 4. MFGG members are generally unable to notice if you nest forums inside of other forums. My idea of a "perfect" MFGG would be set up like so: HEADER 1: MFGG - [b]NCFC:[/b] visible only while NCFC is near; only NCFC or forum staff can post here, and it's basically specialized News - [b]News & Events[/b]: unchanged - [b]General Chat[/b]: some of its topics are now better suited for the forum below this one - [b]ShyGuy's Toy Box[/b]: for forum games such as "Rate the avatar above you!" or "Continue the story"; also allows user-run contests or giveaways - [b]Gaming Discussion:[/b] for discussion of non-fangames, inviting to servers, etc. HEADER 2: FANGAMING - [b]Fangame Showcase[/b]: in any NEW topic you have to post at least a (new) trailer or several (new) screenshots, or ideally a playable executable (demo is fine) - [b]WIP[/b]: Replaces the WIP topic in Fangame Showcase. Much looser requirements for your game to get a topic here. See "Fangame progress". - [b]Fangame Discussion:[/b] equivalent to Developer Discussion - [b]The Artist's Block:[/b] equivalent to Graphics & Audio / Arts Board, topic tags dictate whether the post deals with sprites / music / multiple things HEADER 3: ARCHIVES - [b]Archives[/b]: As-is, including having subforums (normal users aren't expected to look in them anyway.) [b]Fangame progress[/b] The system above has one problem: what do we do about actively updated WIP posts / topics once the game reaches a presentable Showcase-worthy state? My idea was that users would be allowed to make multiple Fangame Showcase topics for each different-enough release of the "same game" (normal flooding rules apply), but only one WIP topic which they may keep actively updated between "proper releases". This is so that moderators do not have an extra workload of moving fangame topics between the WIP and Fangame Showcase forums, because we should be reducing their workload as much as is plausible.