Looney Pyramid Games Wiki:Site News: Difference between revisions
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If you had an account on the old wiki, you will need to re-create it on this wiki. The actual user pages are preserved, so once you create your account you should get your old user page back. Note that there's nothing stopping someone else from creating an account with your old user name; apologies for that. |
If you had an account on the old wiki, you will need to re-create it on this wiki. The actual user pages are preserved, so once you create your account you should get your old user page back. Note that there's nothing stopping someone else from creating an account with your old user name; apologies for that. |
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== Major Reorganization == |
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April 2011: We replaced [[Existing Games]] with two new pages: [[Published Games]] and [[Award-Winning Games]]. All fan-made games, regardless of state of development, are now listed under [[Community Games]]. [[Games Under Development]] no longer lists games directly. If you're a designer, make sure your game didn't get lost in the shuffle. [[What Can I Play?]] was also culled at this time, but new entries are welcome. |
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== Contests == |
== Contests == |
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The Great [[Homeworlds]] Tournament of 2019 is beginning. The tournament is held online, so anyone can participate. See [https://jpeterbaker.github.io/homeworlds/tournament/links2019.html Instructions] for how to register and join. |
The Great [[Homeworlds]] Tournament of 2019 is beginning. The tournament is held online, so anyone can participate. See [https://jpeterbaker.github.io/homeworlds/tournament/links2019.html Instructions] for how to register and join. |
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== Upgrade, With Semantic Annotations == |
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Along with an upgrade to the latest version of MediaWiki (hopefully the image troubles are now sorted), we now support [http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki Semantic MediaWiki annotations]. [http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_Semantic_MediaWiki Instructions and explanations over here.] (Just to forestall any arguments, if you're wondering "which way" to annotate a given property or aspect of something, the officially admin-supported answer is "both, and we'll sort it out later.") - [[User:MiSuBa|misuba]] 02:46, 16 June 2008 (UTC) |
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== Game Infobox Redesign == |
== Game Infobox Redesign == |
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Revision as of 17:33, 3 September 2019
The most recent Icehouse buzz is happening at the Pyramid Games subforum of the Looney Labs Fan Club and the Starship Captains Facebook Group. Be part of the conversation!
New Option for Viewing Games
New in 2019: Games by Release Year. This lets users see all pyramid games by their date of release, and will automatically update whenever a new game is added to the Wiki. Currently there are 547 games listed with descriptions for your browsing pleasure.
Recent New Games and Articles
- Andy Looney's Lava Flows (2017), playable with Pyramid Arcade, becomes the latest pyramid game to be published.
- New fan-made games: Xero-G (2019), Elemental Towers (2018), Warp Ships (2018), and Attack of the Mids (2016).
700+ pages about 500+ games
September 2019: the site has grown to include over 500 pyramid games! Thanks to everybody who has helped to make the pyramid community and the Icehouse Wiki grow!
Pyramid Arcade
Looney Labs ran a Kickstarted project featuring a brand new boxed set of pyramids and tons of neat new other components for pyramid games. They called it Pyramid Arcade, and it shipped to customers in late 2016. Check it out if you haven't already, and start playing and designing games with all of these great new components!
Rebirth of the wiki
Due to some technical issues with upgrading MediaWiki, the software for this wiki had not been upgraded in years. Eventually, upgrades of PHP on the web host led to the wiki to stop working entirely.
After some consideration, we have done a dump and restore of just the latest version of all pages; this loses all history and all user accounts, but preserves the content of the wiki. The old wiki is still available read-only to browse the history at https://www.icehousegames.org/old-wiki/.
If you had an account on the old wiki, you will need to re-create it on this wiki. The actual user pages are preserved, so once you create your account you should get your old user page back. Note that there's nothing stopping someone else from creating an account with your old user name; apologies for that.
Contests
The Great Homeworlds Tournament of 2019 is beginning. The tournament is held online, so anyone can participate. See Instructions for how to register and join.
Game Infobox Redesign
Can you help us improve our venerable infobox, Template:Infobox Game? The new infobox should have available the list of parameters shown on Talk:Infobox, although it doesn't need to use all of them. See Talk:Infobox for the discussion.
Older News
See the News Archive.