What is Inkubators current project???

[BinarySpike]

What's the current project???

I have a strong background in Carbon...
I also have web skills...
My highlights are interface design...

I'm also working on a portible 2D particle engine...
Coming sooooon to a post near you :love:

[Josh]

Sadly, Inkubator appears to be dead. :(

[BinarySpike]

Well, is/was there a project?

[Carlos Camacho]

Not dead... sleepy until I can find a cure for it. Then I will wake it up, and cure its disease. ;)

BS, search SourceForge.

[BinarySpike]

Ok, well I would like to see exactly what it is.

Is it only a "Game" project or do you make other stuff???

[ERaZer]

BinarySpike,
Well, from what I gather, anything game related is fine(there was talk about a sprite editor/creator and a shoot 'em up construction kit "clone").

[BinarySpike]

Hmmmmm......

a sprite editor/creator sounds nice :)

(ERaZer did you get my e-mail???)

[Baldock]

How about extending the current game. Hooptie is single screen levels. Why not create a Rick Dangerous clone? The game logic would be the next step up would it not?

[aarku]

Well, we had decided through a poll and discussion on a side scroller a while ago.

-Jon

[Baldock]

ah thats right, ala defender or something similar.

[aarku]

Here are a couple of old threads:

http://www.idevgames.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6561
http://www.idevgames.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6808

-Jon

Oh, and I don't think we should use SpriteWorld anymore :) (That's right I said it)

[Carlos Camacho]

After we finish setting up the main site again, I will sort out Inkubator. My plan is to set up the site with something like GForge (http://gforge.org/) which is ohh soo sweet. Problem with GForge is that it doesn't run on MySQL. Our admin isn't crazy about installing PostgreSQL just for me. Can anyone find an alternative to GForge which is as good as GForge and runs on MySQL? (And doesn't require "root") :D The sooner we do, the sooner we can get Inkubator back up.

[emileej]

Perhaps the first project could smply be creating an alternative to GForge? Possibly having an object oriented implementation to the database part - making it possible to create different database modules for connecting the system to different database systems.

[davebytes]

Might not be too difficult to make a mySQL module for GForge. Suprising they haven't done it -- then again, I hadn't heard of it before now! ;)

The WordPress folks started using Trac (http://www.edgewall.com/trac/) recently. All depends on what features are needed, I guess.

-d

[Carlos Camacho]

By moving iDevGames to a VPS, we will be able to install PostgreSQL, which gforge.org requires. That said, I'm not sure if running MySQL AND PostgreSQL on a VPS is wise.

I found a possibel alternative though to GForge, which is also Open Source.
http://www.edgewall.com/trac/benefits.html

It seems like it has most of the features we need to restart Inkubator.

Anyways, can anyone Google for other alternatives?

Cheers,

[iefan]

I played with GForge and I feel that with some time it is modifiable to run under MySQL. There are about half a dozen hardcode PS calls which can mostly be directly replaced. Some of the abstracted functions might need a little work since I believe many of the PS functions behave slightly different than the MySQL ones.

The Trac program currently uses just SQLite. I don't know if this is easily changable, but I'd want to use a real database server for a web application. That is my preference, I haven't used SQLite in a web application to say for sure that it isn't good. So someone back me up on this and tell me I'm a fool! :p Overall, Trac looks like it needs a little more work before it's ready for prime time.

Something else I came across:
http://ecode.tigris.org/

[Carlos Camacho]

Thanks for that review!

I think that the Trac FAQ said that MySQL and PostgreSQL could be used. I understand your found on SQLite, but actually, that might be a good thing, since Inkubator is just a sub-domain and not running a high traffic site.

That link that you gave. From my quick look, it is a community site like SourceForge. It is based on http://www.collab.net/, which is commercial -- I think. I'm looking for something like that, but something that we can host on our own machine (for more control, etc)

Cheers,