I put this in the news section because he was a very big part in our community. Without him we wouldn't have made it this far.

Kiriashi died a hero by pushing a kid out of the way of a truck running a red light.

If your wondering how i found out

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With the release of GDU approaching, here is a post on the theory behind the system. Please note that this is the theory behind it, and a lot of these features will not be included upon release. But this is what we are building to.

From RMXP site to Indie Game Development – with support for specific engines
RMXP Unlimited started out as a site for RPG Maker XP and has since struggled to keep up in developing a community for its successors. GDU will be a site to incorporate indie game development in general with no specific engine or class of engines at the centre of it. This is not to say that our majority of members, RMXP users, will no longer find a home here. There will still be sections for specific engines.

Quality content
GDU will aim to produce good quality content that is exclusive to the site and offer incentives for the authors who choose GDU to host it. RMXPU being a home to 2^nd hand resources had long-term benefits but was overall damaging to building the community. No more content will show up on GDU that was coped form somewhere else, unless by a member.

Central content system
At one point in time on RMXPU (although not the case at the present time) there were 4 locations where you could find a script. This included on the website, on the forums and in the downloads manager. Similar for tutorials, specific content was not located in one place.
Sections for each class of content will be created based on the needs of each and to allow all visitors to the site to find what they want as easily and efficiently as possible. This means that content will not be posted in forum topics anymore.

Forum topics are temporary
Many indie game development sites setup a forum and leave it at that. Forums for everything – graphics, scripts, tutorials etc. It works but its not the best way to do things. Certain content needs different things – more than just a single textbox filled with bbcode. The theory behind the GDU forum is temporary benefits. The best example of this is a support topic. A member makes a topic requesting help, another member answers the topic, the topic is closed and forgotten about. It never needs to come up again except in searches for those who have the same problem. The specific forums on GDU will be determined based on this temporary benefits theory, with long-term benefits content in their own sections.

Integration
With the need for many more sections that just a forum, a lot more coding and new sections must be developed. For this to happen, member integration and theme integration must be seamless. On RMXPU the theme is made to look identical but there are different images and different CSS styles for both of those themes. Similarly members have a forum account and a website account that used to login at the same time. On GDU, there is no duplicate code – globally across the site the theme is generated from the exact same file, and the members use their forum account everywhere. The website and forum are essentially one system.

Finding the content you are interested in
You will be able to manage and keep track of the things that interest you on a dashboard. You will be able to find content based on your personal set of tags/keywords, see who has replied to your topics or see replies to topics you have posted in, keep track of new/updated content that you choose, see the activity of members you choose to follow, etc. All the possible activity across GDU will be in one centralised location so you don’t miss out on anything.

Value in your account
Your GDU account should be valuable and worth something. This is the point behind the points system and an awards system.

Effective collaboration and hosting of games
The games section is for you to upload your games for the visitors to download and play – think of it as your own website for your game. You will have a large range of options to customize your games pages and attract visitors to download it. On top of that, you will be able to add ‘team members’ to your game to have access to your own control panel. The control panel is a collaboration/team management system that is used to develop your team project online with other members of the community, rather than through PMs or topics posts. This system will also include a recruitment system which will available publically so you can attract members to your team.

Hi all,

Just letting everyone know that it is no longer possible to be logged into the joomla website. This won't affect most members, however members can no longer login to the chatroom with their accounts.

There will probably be a lot of changes in the near future with rmxpu, and this broken integration is all part of it. It's kind of like deconstructing the website and putting it back together again somewhere else.

Due to circumstances we've decided to move on over to gdu as soon as possible in which we hope to greatly increase the site's performance (it terms of up time and loading speeds) and content organization.

At one point you are able to find RGSS scripts in the RGSS Scripts forum, in the archive on the website, in the downloads manager, and also on a forum app we had a while ago. That's pretty poor management to be honest. So that's something to look forward to.

I can't give a timeframe but its likely we'll make the switch sometime in April.

Also how badly do we need a chat alternative?

Hi all,

Due to recent performance concerns I have decided to make a poll and see how things are affecting all of the members.

Please vote and/or comment below, particularly if you have concerns other than those in the poll. This is your chance to rant all you want about what bugs you regarding rmxpu.