I've been keeping notes over the past few months our new article system has been in use and have several tips for both new and current authors to make your content better for people to read and also better for me to work with when it comes to publishing them. All these tips are in addition to the g…

First off I am utterly blown away by how the community is coming together to start posting articles. One of my biggest hopes for this approach is that we can really start exposing the very best articles available on the internet in one place. At the end of the day learning is the most important thi…

Forgive the lateness of my reply

Actually, I'm here to give y'all an update as to what I'm doing regarding gamedev lately. Since the release of the Gamedev Collection series (still available at Amazon, go get them now), I have been doing very little (and by that I mean no) billable work for Gamedev…

In my last post you got a chance to Read about some major changes to our site reputation system in the works . This post will discuss some of the preliminary point breakdowns.

Your goal hopefully is the same as our goal: use this special place that we developers have here to help each other as much …

Everyone this week got a pretty sizeable ratings boost. Why? Because you guys are all so awesome. One of the core objectives that we as a site set this year was to give our members more of a chance to shine. It's tough as a site to figure out ways to do that, and we've tried to do that sort of thin…

Some of you may have noticed our new "Classifieds" system, created to replace the Help Wanted forum (now closed to new posts) and address a number of issues resulting from the use of a simple forum for recruiting. In a moment we'll take a look at some of the features Classifieds offers and the reas…

I want to make everyone aware of a change we made during a recent review of our moderating procedures and policy. We've enabled the option for users to see their warning level - this will appear as a bar beneath your avatar under each forum post you make and also in your profile page. It appears ex…

Just want to make a quick official update about some of the changes and additions you may have noticed we've made to the moderation team over the past few months.

New Senior Moderators

Community Manager Washu and myself appointed two new moderators to the Senior Mods council - swiftcoder and jbadams…

Open Tagging vs. Closed Tagging

When we launched the site upgrade and announced that we had a new tagging system, it was also made clear that this system was closed, which meant that we supplied the tags you all could select from. The primary reasoning behind this closed system was to reduce what I …

Note: This post contains images from the next version of our site from areas still under development and are subject to change

In shaping our future we have developed a number of principles that will shape our future direction in a way that will be very positive for the game development community. O…