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EDITOR'S NOTE, May 2013: This blog post is outdated. You can always find the latest version of Gamasutra's blog guidelines HERE.
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sincerely,
brandon sheffield
Unfortunately, for some reason pretty much all those events take place on Tuesday, which is when we record the Idle Thumbs podcast. I'd love to come to more local stuff!
Brandon,
Go and drown.
Are the member blogs intended to concern themselves solely with electronic gaming, or would you be interested in other kinds of game development as well, such as tabletop?
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Also, some of your Gamasutra featured articles are called out as news items in your news RSS feed. It just gives me about 75% of your feature articles twice in my reader!
Jeff.
also, comment editing!
So, without that, I will post some suggetions here...
High Priority
1. Contact Form (help, bug, suggestions)
2. Some basic widget support, at a minimum a "link list"...as posts increase a member will want to provide a quick nav of sorts to their other posts. This quick nav is present on all of the posts by that member and would be a custom nav that doesn't include every post...just the key ones.
1. 3 RSS feeds (expert bloggers, member bloggers, a specific blogger...so thats one per blogger)
Low Priority
1. Spellchecker when editing a post
MISC.
As more devs use these blogs make sure you continue to improve it's feature set. Having to manage ones own blog, hosting, updates to Word Press etc is just another pain in life that I don't want to deal with any more. Without having to manage all that, it would be great to blog/communicate with others of the same interest...social network for game developers.
When I read someone else's blog, it shows my picture in the corner there instead of the author. That's a bit jarring. Can something be done about that?
Is it possible for a blog author to know how many times each of his postings has been viewed?
Finally, are our blogs ready for blog aggregators? I'm a reader of the Planet IF aggregate (http://planet-if.com/) and would soon ask the person in charge there to add my Gamasutra blog to the mix.
Thanks,
-R
I have a question: With the site redesign there doesn't seem to be a link to submit articles for consideration as features. I was wondering how I would go about such a submission if I didn't want to just blog it...
Regards,
Christiaan
I have a question about the game dev magazine subscription I won some weeks ago (May 11) for my blog post on interactive storytelling. Is it really coming? Do I have to do something first?
Regards,
Emanuel