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Geek Culture / Would anyone be interested if I brought back DBG? (An old DBP game review site I had)

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Manticore Night
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Posted: 12th Jul 2004 02:38
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Needs some pics but looks good.

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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 12th Jul 2004 02:49 Edited at: 12th Jul 2004 02:52
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Quote: "Needs some pics but looks good.
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lol yea it says in the update, that I'm going to be adding various DB game characters to the top banner.

And ofcourse, various pics around the site of games.

The hard part right now, I'm having alot of trouble actually finding good games. O_o

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Guhill The friendly one
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Posted: 13th Jul 2004 03:45
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So we can just upload our games to your site. Good, because I don't feel like writing my own website and buying webspace.

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Mattman
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Posted: 13th Jul 2004 04:15
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megaton > go on MSN and we can talk, I have my version of DBG, I can maybe continue that with you

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Benjamin
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Posted: 13th Jul 2004 04:58 Edited at: 13th Jul 2004 05:03
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Yes, 'nice one' Mattman. Ok Megaton, I can't find a CSS file anywhere, which directory would it be in? I have a hunch that Mattman might have deleted it..

EDIT: Anywaaaay, wheres DBG gonna be hosted? I've been thinking a bit and I could possibly get you your own site..$100 a year isnt that much and I could probably afford it, and we could maintain the site together . Also if the site recieved small donations every so often that would help pay for it. Thinking about it, it might not even cost $100 a year, I'll have a look around the net to see what kind of hosting services there are.

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Mattman
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Posted: 13th Jul 2004 08:18
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delete it? are you insane! Why would I delete it?!?

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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 13th Jul 2004 08:51 Edited at: 13th Jul 2004 08:52
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Gee PetRap, you would do that? For me?!



Mattman, I'm sure petrap will give back the file...>_>

p.s: Can't the three of us just get along??

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Benjamin
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Posted: 13th Jul 2004 09:11
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Quote: "delete it? are you insane! Why would I delete it?!?"

lol calm down Matt, I meant perhaps you deleted it to upload another version of it or something.

Quote: "Gee PetRap, you would do that? For me?!"

Sure I would, buddy! *nudge* Seems like it would be a good project for the both of us(even though all I would do is help with maintaining it )

Quote: "Mattman, I'm sure petrap will give back the file...>_>"

I havent got the file..well, technically I have(I backed up everything on a CD a while ago) but erm..I can't find the CD. I'll have a look for it tomorrow .

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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 13th Jul 2004 09:14
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lol
and I just told Mattman "don't worry, petrat backed it up on a cd"



well I hope you find it...we won't be able to use the current design without those psd files.. (I still think it's ugly though)

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Mattman
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Posted: 13th Jul 2004 09:21
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ugh

Well, if you would be so kind as to send me main.php (I know it there, I can see it but I can't get to it) I would be a very happy fellow

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Cian Rice
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You need need 3 reviewers and average grade for all three like in EGM. ('Cept they don't show an average review)

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Posted: 14th Jul 2004 13:50
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If you need any help finding some good hosts I know of a few .


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Benjamin
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Posted: 14th Jul 2004 18:32 Edited at: 14th Jul 2004 19:18
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Quote: "You need need 3 reviewers and average grade for all three like in EGM. ('Cept they don't show an average review)"

3 reviewers per game or just 3 reviewers reviewing seperate games?

I'll try and find that CD then shall I..

EDIT: Mattwomen, add me to your msn list . Oh yeah, I seem to have found the website in a RAR file..strangely enough uploaded to excaver.com . I'll go get it and get the DBG files.

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Andy Igoe
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If you like I can knock up a banner for the top of the page, but i'd really think hard about 800x600 support. 85% of visitors to my site are still using it...


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Benjamin
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Posted: 14th Jul 2004 19:58
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I still use 800x600 too.

Uh, megaton, theres one slight problem. The DBG files arent in the RAR file

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Posted: 14th Jul 2004 21:10
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...So what is?!


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Cian Rice
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3 Reviewers to each game sorry. It's an american magazine not sure if it's in Europe.
Pretty much you have three reviewers who write a review that's not as long as one person reviewing one game put ir clearly states what's good and what's bad and then theres a box in the corner that says something like this:
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|6.2|6.6|9.5|
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|Rob|Joe|Chad|
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And there is medals like bronze silver and gold, which is different in the magazine (silver,gold,platinum)

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Posted: 14th Jul 2004 23:05
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Seems a bit excessive to me, every game having to be reviewed 3 times.


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Mattman
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Posted: 14th Jul 2004 23:28
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indeed, I don't think megaton,petrat and i have the time to review all the games

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Posted: 14th Jul 2004 23:39
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PetRat: What do you mean the files aren\'t in there?

Quote: "3 Reviewers to each game sorry. It\'s an american magazine not sure if it\'s in Europe."


Lol no I don\'t think people would wanna hear 3 rantings for one game.

Andy: Hey, give it a shot.

And mattman, I didn\'t have time to send this to you yesterday so I\'ll just post it here. It\'s the format for the reviews.

DBG site layout
To: Ben and Mattman

Hey, this letter is for both of you so read up.
Mattman said he can code everything to be dynamic, so this is the order of which everything
will be updated.

REVIEWS & PREVIEWS PAGE: The format of the updates on the game reviews page.

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[small thumb of game]

Name: [insert name here]
Date added: [insert date here]
Posted by: [insert posty]

[short game description goes here]

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NEWS/HOME PAGE: The format of the updates for the main/home page.

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[Insert subject here e.g \"welcome!\"]
Date posted: [insert date here]
Posted by: [Insert posty name here]
[Insert message/update text here e.g \"new site uploaded!\"]

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GENERAL REVIEW/PREVIEW FORMAT: The format by which the games wil be reviewed. *strict guidlines*

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Name: [insert game\'s name here]
Download: [insert download link here]
Developer: [insert developer here+link to their site]
Catagory: [insert genere here e.g RPG, FPS...]

[insert actual review/preview here]

Final word: (e.g....)

The good: [cool graphics, awsome levels..etc..]
The bad: [fishhead menu, retarded music, etc]
Quotes: [ \"Best game of 2004 yo!\" -Pet Rat, etc..]

Final score: [insert final score out of 10 here]

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Benjamin
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Posted: 15th Jul 2004 01:35 Edited at: 15th Jul 2004 01:38
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Quote: "...So what is?!"

The only site in the RAR file is the Excaver site. Please don't hurt me Megaton .

Quote: "3 Reviewers to each game sorry"

Does it count if we review a game each and pretend to be 3 different people? . 3. As Exeat said it is a tiny bit excessive.

EDIT: Matt I would appreciate it if you didn't send me fwds, remember, what goes around comes around

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PHP is your friend so are SQL tables, although petrat apparently diagress jk petrat

I'll see what I can do with that. Do you mind sending me your image template so I can get an idea of how its gonna work graphicly.

And petrat, I would REALLY REALLY like main.php from the DBG folder of excaver.com please please PLEASE!

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Quote: "Do you mind sending me your image template so I can get an idea of how its gonna work graphicly.
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Image template...what do you mean?

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Mattman
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Posted: 15th Jul 2004 06:31 Edited at: 15th Jul 2004 06:31
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An example of the layout

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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 15th Jul 2004 07:36
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You know...you can easly do that yourself, but what the heck, I'LL put the text in for you.

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Mattman
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Posted: 15th Jul 2004 08:37
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I just do the programming, I cant do crap with images

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Erm...there are no images involved.
All you have to do is copy & paste the text I gave above. Anway I'll give you the file tommoro.

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Posted: 17th Jul 2004 00:24 Edited at: 17th Jul 2004 00:25
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^_^ *me watches the construction of a new site*

<waves arms> I wanna help. ^_^
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