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 Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 1:41 pm Post subject: Genre Categories 2 |
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Okay thanks to all those folks who contributed and voted on some proposed changes to our Main Forum Categories. 
The winning option has 3 parts to it:
- Adjust HEM to General Fiction and Experimental
- Make Forum Descriptions clearer on what they contain
- Encourage Authors to write blurbs on their storygames.
Okay. The first one Smee will take care of I'm sure.
The blurb item we'll give to the Main Forum mods to manage. Hey, that's Smee again. Note the deft delegation skills here... 
But the second one - making Forum Descriptions clearer on what they contain, still needs some input, if anyone is still willing.
So we have the three categories - as they stand at the moment,
Fantasy, Sci-Fi Future and Horror, and what will become General Fiction and Experimental category.
My initial thought would be to simply list related genres/subgenres in the forum descriptions. This might (in theory) help place storygames and find them. So in the General Fiction category (which might need a lot of describing!) we might have Mystery, Romance and Westerns, for example.
In Skiffy, we could list Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror, Suspense, etc.
How does that sound?
Or any other ideas? If so, let's hear them!
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| Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 1:48 pm Post subject: |
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First part complete - but the sections don't actually have a place for a description - what we come up with will need to go in the description for the non-SgoTM genre forums.
Alternatively, we put an empty, locked forum at the top which can serve as a description
Going to need a new picture for there too, that is more 'General Fiction' than a Jester
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| Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 3:18 am Post subject: |
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I was going to post something here, but then I forgot. Probably partly due to old, old age, and partly due to drunkenneess!
G-Fie eh? Mmm. I'll have to think about that, needs to be catchier.
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| Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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ARMY DUDE! ARMY DUDE!!!
GENERAL fiction! Make it the Ifian Barracks!
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| Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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| scissorkitty wrote: | ARMY DUDE! ARMY DUDE!!!
GENERAL fiction! Make it the Ifian Barracks! |
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| Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 12:43 am Post subject: |
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Haha!
Well an army dude is beyond my artistic limitations but I did come up with this while having a go at graphics for the IFYs.
(edit to add a second attempt)
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I like the first one better.
Maybe it should be writing an 'F' or something?
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| Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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Nice!
I agree with China- I like the first on better.
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| Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 1:32 pm Post subject: |
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I like the first one too and also the "F" idea.
however.. i still love the idea of the Ifian Army Barracks.... What about some sort of militia symbol?
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| Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 6:26 am Post subject: |
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Hehe, I'll have to work on that. I also think the army one is the better idea but I dunno if I could produce any artwork that would be convincing enough for that!
Will work on the 'F' in the meantine, and see how it turns out. 
Since there've been no further thoughts posted on what the main forum descriptions should contain, Smee and I have made a few tweaks to the main forum descriptions and you can see them here:
Fantasy
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General Fiction
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