Official Game Developer forums.. Desi GameDev

[UPDATE - 2nd Dec,07] - We are moving the website to a new server. Site is under construction at the moment.

I had to post this a long time back.. Somehow, forgot to.. Anyway..

This is about the launch of GameDev.in.

Apna Own.. Desi Game Developer forums.

Specchum(Arun Nair) came up with this proposal first on IGDA forums. Many youngsters have been posting technical queries and IGDA is definitely not a regular developer forum. I created a phpbb forums for testing and feedback purposes and ran for about two weeks. We found it to be slow and buggy.

Then Sangam Gupta, CEO of Trine Game studio offered to host on one of their Web servers and using vBulletin, the best commercial forums software. Trine already had a license for vBulletin.

I am Co-Sponsor/Adminstrator of the site, while Purple-Blade (Sumit Mehra) and Specchum are the super moderators.

We first announced this on IGDA and was also mentioned in AnimationExpress News.

http://www.animationxpress.com/index.php?file=story&id=1470

Clickie to visit the forums.
http://www.gamedev.in/

All time Greatest Music Videos - Entry 2. So called you are never alone

This is quite a recent music video. Its just amazing. A little bizarre. But, captivating.

All time Greatest Music Videos.. Metallica - One

This is the first of my series to put the Greatest Music/Music Videos here..

Even though, I consider Michael Jackson's Thriller as the greatest music video of all time..
Metallica's One has to be the greatest song and an equally great video with a powerful message for humanity at any point of time of our civilizations..

This song and video are about a soldier who, in an explosion during combat had lost both his arms and legs. The worst part is that he lost his vision, hearing and ability to talk.. leaving his body confined to the hospital bed.. and his mind confined to his thoughts..

• How can he tell the difference if he is dreaming or if is awake ?

• How can even know if he is alive ?

• How can he tell someone that he cant take this and wants to be dead ?

• Should he be left alive on the artificial respirator ?

• Should the doctors pull the plug and free him from the most horrible jail, caged right inside his head ??