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June 2013
Hmm, I like the categories and sub-categories too. Of course, everyone is going to want to define their own categories for their campaign, or at least, they're not going to be happy with a rigid list of pre-defined categories. I'll have to think …
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Campaign Landing Page thoughts
June 2013
ReverseG - Good point about the recent updates showing what is going on in the game. I'll make a note of that. KillerVP - Also making a note of marking games as remote or "the internet". Not sure what form that would show up as, but it's a good t…
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Campaign Landing Page thoughts
June 2013
Ah, thank God. That makes much more sense. I'll definitely keep that in mind with the redesign, as I hadn't considered the Internet games. Thanks for clearing it up!
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Campaign Landing Page thoughts
June 2013
No designs are posted yet. I have some wireframe mockups, but I've decided not to post them. People will get too nit-picky about the details and not focus on the higher concepts.
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Campaign Landing Page thoughts
June 2013
"Is there any way we can add a pbp/video conference addition to the map?" Whoa! Let's keep focus on the campaign landing page here! That's like me asking if you like the paint color of a bicycle and you saying, "Yeah, but can we have a Lamborghin…
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May 2013
Special tags are definitely one answer, although I'm always worried about that kind of thing. It's a little complicated and I can see a lot of people either ignoring it completely or being confused by it. I hate adding advanced features that get ign…
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May 2013
Thanks for the Wowhead example. Playing with something is so much easier than trying to understand from a text description. Given the information that we have on each OP page, how would you envision something like the Wowhead breadcrumbs? In othe…
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Adventure and Campaign Publishing
May 2013
So I've been kicking this idea around for years, and ultimately I've tabled it every time. It's very tempting from a business standpoint, running a digital content marketplace, but it's a big departure from what we are right now and involves a lot o…
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Player Secrets / User-specific content
May 2013
@Langy - So what you're describing is essentially my pie-in-the-sky idea, but it's much harder than that. At that point you're collaboratively editing a document and not everyone can see the whole thing. It's all slightly different for each viewer. …
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REFERENCE: LIst of Goals for the Reforging
May 2013
A good list, but please include timelines, also from the KS main page: * Original goal, names, and maps is slated for August 2013 * File storage - September 2013 * Custom URLs - October 2013 * Natural Editing (WYSIWYG) - December 2013
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Working quick search bar demo
May 2013
The quick search as shown is pretty dumb. It only searches the title/name and the tags. In order to keep it simple and fast, that's what I went with. My hope is that it's "good enough" for the majority of cases. You'll be thinking to yourself, "I ne…
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Player Secrets / User-specific content
May 2013
For the near future, player secrets will stay mostly as it is, with a better looking interface. The current "edit player secrets" section is pretty ugly. I at least want to make it look nicer. That being said, I have some radical ideas on how to …
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Natural Editing - Tables
May 2013
It's a good question and I don't have an answer right now. We're still evaluating several different tools to allow for the natural editing. Like you can see in the video, it's pretty powerful, but there are a lot of details and questions to address …
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Feature Prioritization
May 2013
Okay, glad to hear that it's not an attempt to force development in one way or another. That's not going to go so well. For now, I'm focusing on the core features that I've envisioned, and I'm doing my best to communicate them here in the forums …
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Good Designers Borrow
May 2013
Some quick thoughts: 1 main thing to remember: We're not trying to pack every little bit of info into this page. This is where you land when you log in and want to see a quick summary of everything going on in the campaign. I'm not sure exactly h…
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Working quick search bar demo
May 2013
@hoptown - Yes, if you look closely you'll see that the entries are grouped by type (blog_posts, game_characters, forum_posts, etc.) My leaning for styling would be to use icons to differentiate between the record types. In the latest examples of th…
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Navigation Menu
May 2013
Hiding tabs (and/or renaming them) is something I've been kicking around, especially because it's fairly simple to do with CSS. I don't see it happening right away, but I am considering it. Breadcrumbs are a tricky one, mainly because there are s…
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Collapsable Sections/Showing Hidden Divs
May 2013
Good ideas, people. Just so it's clear, we're a custom-built wiki on top of Ruby on Rails. In 99% of cases, if another wiki platform has it, we can do it, but it's not something we can just include for free. The downside is...well...we don't get …
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Feature Prioritization
May 2013
Well, the reforging isn't a grab-bag of new features, it's an attempt to take what we have and enhance and redesign it to make it work like I envision. Voting on new features won't really change that. Honestly, I've considered uservoice and I don…
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Wiki templates
May 2013
Well, we're not a commercially distributed wiki system, so we have to reinvent a lot of wheels. I think I see the idea here, with serving the template and the content separately and then combining them client side. I'm not sure that's the route I…
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Semantic Markup, Accessibility, HTML5 & CSS3
May 2013
We'll definitely do our best here, and I plan to use as many of the new HTML5 tags as make sense (nav, header, footer, section, etc, etc). I like living on the cutting edge, and that means using HTML5 and CSS3 to the fullest. On the flip side, we…
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Good Designers Borrow
May 2013
@Langy - Mediawiki has been a long-standing inspiration, but I'm glad you brought it up. There are a lot of pros/cons there that are tough to weigh. For a "pro" in mediawiki, you can do some amazing things. For an amateur, it can be incredibly da…
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May 2013
I would probably roll something like this into "the templating discussed here":http://forums.obsidianportal.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=3004 In other words, you'd probably have to include a template on each page and then use CSS to style it how yo…
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Wiki templates
May 2013
This is a common request, and I want to say yes to it. There are a lot of implementation details to consider, but I think it's possible. One of the main reasons I want to do this is that it would help people deal with any breaking changes that we…
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Good Designers Borrow
May 2013
Langy Excellent points, especially the thoughts about user generated content (UGC). That's something I'm constantly thinking about. Many sites are lovingly designed with every pixel placed exactly, while UGC sites have to conform to whatever craz…
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Welcome Reforge Backers!
May 2013
We will have a lifetimers badge. No ETA on when, but we'll definitely have it. For the Ascendant slashes on the profile pic, I think we may get rid of those altogether. A lot of people have complained about those obscuring their profile images. I…
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Good Designers Borrow
May 2013
edited May 2013
I’ll start us off, and I’ll cheat a little and use Obsidian Portal itself. This is an image of my "Kensing campaign":http://obsidianportal.com/campaigns/kensing , and I’m using one of the custom backgrounds that we allow. I’m also going to focus on …
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Beta testers needed for autosave feature
February 2013
Glad everyone likes it. I've been wanting to do something like this for a while and then suddenly I had some inspiration about an easy way to do it. It's one of the features I love: immediately useful and easy to implement.
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Beta testers needed for autosave feature
February 2013
Yes, for everyone: all players, GMs, free, and Ascendant.
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Beta testers needed for autosave feature
February 2013
Launched! Enjoy!
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