digitalBYOND

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Mar 12 2006, 6:59 am
Hey, whats going on over at digitalBYOND?
Theres been no activity there for awhile.
Mar 12 2006, 11:44 am
i've been a bit busy with real-world stuff, so unfortunately digitalBYOND has been neglected. but check back in April- digitalBYOND will return with a new look, and some new content! also, secureBYOND will be merged back into digitalBYOND.

if you have an idea for an article for digitalBYOND, please submit it to [email protected] for review.
Mar 12 2006, 11:58 pm
In response to digitalmouse
what's a real world? =S
Mar 13 2006, 3:45 am
In response to Jimmeh
other people call it 'the matrix'...
Mar 13 2006, 8:30 am
In response to digitalmouse
Heh. Digi is the 'one'
But, I'm glad to hear digitalBYONDs gonna be up an active some more. I go there to read the "bulletproof code" and "green thumb" articles a lot.
Mar 13 2006, 11:25 am (Edited on Mar 13 2006, 11:35 am)
In response to Jimmeh
It's a fun game, but the ending supposedly isn't cool.

I heard the main character dies.
Mar 13 2006, 11:31 am
In response to Hell Ramen
I'm kinda new here, what's DigitalBond?
Mar 13 2006, 11:35 am
In response to KirbyRules
It's on the left under partners.
http://digitalbyond.net.tc/
Mar 13 2006, 11:36 am
In response to Hell Ramen
what != where
Mar 13 2006, 11:39 am
In response to KirbyRules
I am having troubles detecting weather or not that is sarcasm. So I will answer you respectfully.

DigitalBYOND is a competitor to BYONDScape that was founded by "the digitalmouse". It's intent is to give people a place to showoff ideas and help others in many constructive ways, such as tutorials and articles.
Mar 13 2006, 11:40 am
In response to Crashed
I know, I was just showing him how to get more info on it--by going to the site.
_>
Dur.
Mar 13 2006, 3:08 pm
In response to Hell Ramen
Whoops, :P didn't see it. Thanks.
Mar 13 2006, 4:42 pm
In response to Hell Ramen
Hell Ramen wrote:
It's a fun game, but the ending supposedly isn't cool.

I heard the main character dies.


Yea. Agent Smith owns him and then he owns Agent Smith.
Mar 13 2006, 5:16 pm
In response to Mechanios
He was talking about "real life". Look at the parnet ID. He is poking fun at how everyone dies.
Mar 13 2006, 11:21 pm
In response to Scoobert
Scoobert wrote:
DigitalBYOND is a competitor to BYONDScape...

*BUZZ* wrong answer! but thanks for playing!

digitalBYOND (note the lowercase 'd') has never been designed to be a competitor to BYONDscape - far from it. Heck, Guy (aka Gughunter) is one-up on me from the start by paying for author submissions or stringer-reports.

BYONDscape tends to be very BYOND-centric in it's articles and tutorials (the 'Z-tutorials', 'DreamTutor', 'Nadrew's How-To's', and the like) for all experience levels, where-as digitalBYOND tries to cover more general programming practices and concepts that could be of more interest or usefulness to game developers in general. My content varies from personal rants ('Wizz-bang coders'), experience ('Programming: Hungarian style'), discovering game development gems online ('Creating Adventure Games...', 'How to make good quests'), and always include links to BYONDscape articles that I think worth getting some extra publicity, or are appropriate to dust off and re-visit (like Deadron's 'Games from the Garage', and Lummox's 'BYOND can do it better'). this is one of the reasons why i offer my content for free - most of it you can find on your own.

these are not set-in-stone policies of either website, but only the general scope of each from my perspective (even digitalBYOND has a few tutorials strictly for BYOND such as how to install DMcgi and Lummox's SwapMaps article/library),

i will be turning away from a forum-centric system to more of an e-zine style. i recently did up a little MySQL-to-PDF converter script in PHP for a local client, and may adapt that for digitalBYOND so that people can download 'issues' to print or read offline, not unlike http://tuxmagazine.com.

i may also merge secureBYOND (originally aimed at articles to help protect your games from bad people) into digitalBYOND - easier to maintain under one roof.

as always, if you have an article or tutorial you think would be good to share with everyone (and don't mind doing it for free), send it (or your idea) over to [email protected]. and look for the new digitalBYOND layout in the coming weeks.
Mar 14 2006, 1:19 pm
In response to digitalmouse
Heh, the "D" was a typo out of habit...

Anywho, I still see digitalBYOND as a competitor, even if not directly. I would say that "Game Informer" and "PC Magazine" are competitors, even if they don't talk about the same thing. Heck, I had subscriptions to both at one time. Even if it is not designed to be a competitor, it is, although inderectly.

That reminds me, I have been meaning to send in some of my papers to digitalBYOND, even a few that are on BYONDScape.
Mar 15 2006, 1:14 am
In response to Mechanios
Mechanios wrote:
Heh. Digi is the 'one'

and I am smith.
DIE SUCKERS!
Mar 15 2006, 3:17 am
In response to Scoobert
competitor - 'One that competes with another, as in sports or business; a rival.'

digitalBYOND does not, and has no need to, compete with BYONDscape.
Mar 15 2006, 4:13 am
In response to digitalmouse
Well, my guess is that the "competition" notion arises from laziness...

People are inclined to choose between the two sites, rather than visit both, when it is perceived that they offer similar things (heck, even if it is perceived that they offer completely different things, people will still choose which one offers what they want the most)

Even though it is exceedingly simple (and free) to visit both of them, you will still face the mindset that the visitor only has time for one, so they must choose...

And there's where "competition" arises, even if it is not intended by the design of the sites themselves...