Scene Diskmags

[CoDeMaN]

Anyone on DBF thought about doing a diskmag ?
Lots of you capable of coding the mag itself and
lots of members of this forum to help out ....

Scene news ? (whats left of it)
Coding tutorials ?
Demo reviews ?
Interviews ?
+ more

[Shockwave]

There are a couple of good scene mags available at the moment, tbh it's not something I'd personally code because for the mag to have respect it needs to be coded by a group with a strong scene history, to ensure good interviews and such. Also producing a magazine is a lot of work, personally I wouldn't want to take it on. And anyway Pain and Hugi cover the bases as far as I'm concerned.

What I would like to see is some kind of Scene charts. Devience were going to do something with them. That would be worthwhile. This would make demo reviews pointless. Demos are free, anyone can download them so who would really be interested in a review of something that doesn't cost any money?

Scene charts would be great. Mags are as far as I'm concerned a waste of time, except for nostalgia fans and the tremendously dedicated who can do a good job on them. You only have to look at the stick that Adok gets for Hugi and wonder sometimes why does he carry on when all he gets is a dogs abuse for what he does. (even if he is as nutty as a fruitcake).

[CoDeMaN]

LOL @ Nutty as a fruitcake .... But to carry on i spose he must be ....

Just one thing if anyone does wanna do a diskmag .... dont call it GRAPEVINE

[Shockwave]

Mmm. Yep I can see that could be a bad Idea

[taj]

One thought though - does it have to be a scenemag? I mean there is life beyond scene.
Do a BasicMag...which happens to include lots of sample code to do effects. There is
way more than enough talent in Basic on this board to do that. I mean way. Hell
do a bboard mag - who cares? Scene != life && life!=scene. I'm told.

[Shockwave]

The question is open then, maybe more people will take up the idea.
Like Taj says it definately needs it's own niche. I don't think there's anything out there that shows how to code effects in basic and the other languages we cover here?

[benny!]

Nice topic here.

I agree on shockwaves earlier post. Scenemags might be a lot of work. Furthermore,
articles on the internet have the advantage that they can be updated very easily,
the readers can interact / comment the articles and they are accessible as soon as
they are released. So, at least in my eyes, reading technique articles in a scenemag
is old-fashioned.

On the other hand - if you think about anything like a scenemag done by this community
we not release somekind of chart / collection of all the tiny's competitions in this forum.
For example, why not release a mag-like production with the results of the forums competitions
(i.e. screenshots, description, maybe short interviews of the winners etc). Furthermore you
may have some articles/news focussing on other board-projects ( see Community Projects /
Work in Progress ).

This could have a little marketing effect for this forum to get some more users.

Hmm ... just a thought 

[Shockwave]

The thought of encouraging more new sign ups is attractive Benny I must admit...