Announcing: THE JALAK REGISTRY

The Noble Robot · **Joined:** Fri Nov 10, 2006 5:34 am **Posts:** 769

EDIT: The website has been up for about a week now, and it's recently been greatly improved. More features, improved layout and organization. Also, you can now post your unique Jalakbloc sculptures and challenge the community to duplicate your efforts! Check it out.

I've created a database for Jalak games called "the Jalak Registry"

I've also included images of the "gameboard" and the "Blocs" for people to download and create game diagrams.

Check it out, sign up for an account (you can add games without an account, but you can't upload images), and register your Jalak game!!

http://jalak.heywetried.com/

I made this whole thing in less than 6 hours, so it's not finished. I intend to include more images, as well as links to guides on Abstract Strategy games, and more information on making games specifically for Jalak. I'd also like to include a rating system and streamline a more fluid image upload process.

Other goals include developing a complete notation system for the Jalak board (which I'm making progress on), and supporting multiple languages.

But the site is 100% functional as is, so don't hesitate to start uploading your creations (If you create an account, you can also edit your posts, so you can always update and add info and images/screenshots later).

Please provide comments/complaints/bugs/etc in this thread., as I'll be spending the next week refining the site, and I could use your help.

Can someone also please copy/paste this post to UO, I don't have an account over there. EDIT: Apparently, I do have an account there, never mind, then. :oops:

Thanks, y'all! It's way past bedtime for me!

C'ristan · **Posted:** Sat Aug 04, 2007 2:45 pm

Great job, TNR, in keeping with your excellent Minkata mapping

I take it the Latin is a temporary thing? :lol:

Jimbo · **Posted:** Sat Aug 04, 2007 3:20 pm

Very god job, Robert and ur latin is excellent except for a few grammatical errors. Thx. :wink:

The Noble Robot · **Joined:** Fri Nov 10, 2006 5:34 am **Posts:** 769

Yes, the "latin" is generated dummy text called Lorem Ipsum.

It is temporary.

C'ristan · **Posted:** Sat Aug 04, 2007 6:02 pm

Gotcha. I knew I'd come across its use before, didn't realise that it was such a standard methodology in typesetting - cool

mystysteve · **Joined:** Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:50 am **Posts:** 46

C'ristan wrote:

Gotcha. I knew I'd come across its use before, didn't realise that it was such a standard methodology in typesetting - cool

It sure is... and has been for centuries, actually. :wink:

Stellaflora · **Posted:** Sun Aug 05, 2007 7:32 pm

Wonderful, very nice!

I've already uploaded a game I'd made (Race to the Top), although I can't seem find where to input my name, there seem to be more identity fields on the feedback then the actual item it'self

The Noble Robot · **Joined:** Fri Nov 10, 2006 5:34 am **Posts:** 769

In order to identify yourself as the game's author, you need to sign up for an account on the site.

If you'd rather not do that (I want to let people post anonymously), feel free to put your name somewhere in the content of the game's rules.

Oh, I see you've done that. :-)

I can see if I can put a name field for anonymous users. Although, while I don't want to force anyone to sign up, I would like to encourage people to, so maybe I shouldn't add that feature. Taking that into account, does anyone have a strong opinion on this?

Also, I'd like to, in the future, allow visitors to the site be able to filter results by game author, and for that system to be useful, it would require more people to sign up.

Stellaflora · **Posted:** Sun Aug 05, 2007 11:10 pm

Arr, I see, I haddn't noticed that bar at the top. :oops:

I've made my account and updated my entery accordingly

subumbra · **Posted:** Mon Aug 06, 2007 7:50 am

**Geek talk alert. Non-wirehead explorers ignore this post.**

Nice site NR. Good to see a fellow Drupal developer in action. One suggestion: You should enable Clean URLs and use the Pathauto module to automatically generate URLs from Node titles. That way if someone bookmarks a game, they can tell from the url what is is instead of just "node xx".

The Noble Robot · **Joined:** Fri Nov 10, 2006 5:34 am **Posts:** 769

Good suggestion, sub. I've already got Clean URL's enabled, but I'll look into that module. Thanks

EDIT: I configured Pathauto to the Registry and it's all set for using Wiki-style URLs for games, categories, and users. Again, thanks for the tip!!

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