Ultima Island

[Seraph]

Hello Everyone. It has been a while, and I'm here to advertise a website called Ultima Island.

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The site opened in late November and been available to the public since then. We are an aeteur game making community, and although we focus mainly on the RPG Maker series we are also open to games and content related to many other means of game development including Game Maker, Sphere, and hand-coded games. We have articles which can provide an interesting read if you're bored, game reviews with subjects ranging from site-based Rm2k games to Nintendo DS games. We also have tutorials to help you learn how to use RPG Maker (as well as some PHP and other tutorials). Another handy learning tool is our dictionary - to date our dictionary has 230 definitions with it that could help you to understand something important.



Stats are correct on the date this message is posted. They're probably higher now.

The site is coded by myself utilising PHP, mySQL, HTML and CSS. We have a strong (self-coded) content management system in place so that all resources, games and other content can be validated by a member of staff as quickly as possible. We also have some more personal touches and features corresponding to your experience as a registered user of the site. For example, registered users automatically collect Gold and Experience points for doing things around the site.

Registered users also each have their own little chocobo. This chocobo has a rank which will improve over time - as you gain more and more exp your chocobo will respect you and be motivated by you more. They're nothing but a bit of fun at the moment, but your chocobos do have stats and in the near future we will be releasing a Flash game where you use your chocobo to compete and races and other games. Your chocobos are customisable by colour (until you reach Black Chocobo).

The items you can buy with your gold are varying in practical use. Some, such as the 25 FF Cards to be found, are purely for collecting. Others, such as the Memory Cards, are more useful as they let you upload files to the site. We have lots of other items up for grabs too, such as the megaphone which allows you to shout a short message onto the homepage. Also, you can sometimes be rewarded for your activity on the site by finding items. Every time you submit content, rate content or add a comment there is a chance that you may find an item (in which case you will be notified by Personal Message).

Another unique feature to Ultima Island is the Resource Cart. The site is gaining a vast archive of resources that have been collected from various games and users, there is no restriction of any kind on how many resources you want to download, so it is worth the look around. Registered users are able to add resources to the cart and then download them all in one automatically created zip file from their Control Panel. This is a handy feature.

We have also recently implemented our Upcoming Project system. If you are working on a game, you can keep a record of your progress from UI. It's a great way to showcase your project, and the interface is easy to use.



You also get a free website with every project. Wether you choose to use it or not is up to you. My project website demonstrates how the content is retrieved from the database, and is the same as on your UI project page. You canuse HTML templates to completely customise the look of your project website.

A feature that has just recently been implemented is the Personal Spy Center.



Fro the spy center you can manage your buddies, send them Personal Messages on the fly, and check out the latest active articles, tutorials and forum topics.

Ultima Island has had alot of work put into it to make sure that it is technically very good. As you can tell from the stats displayed earlier in this post, we are also collecting quite a vast amount of resources and literature which you may find useful. We have a very friendly community on the boards, so if you like that sort of thing then Ultima Island could be for you.

I have talked alot about the technical side of things, you'll have to check the site out yourself to see if the content is up to scratch.

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Sidenote: If any Charas Staff see this, I'd like to affiliate with Charas. I e-mailed but it went unanswered.
Sidenote from admin: check our policies on this sort of stuff next time, killer

[Meiscool-2]

In big letters, I do believe you're NOT allowed to advertise sites on charas. There is only one thread/topic you can do that in:

http://charas-project.net/forum/showthread.php?threadid=6952&forumid=12&catid=6&page=11

[Archem]

Wait, what just happened? Wasn't this thread locked just a minute ago?

[FFL2and3rocks]

Yeah, it was!

According to the logfile, GhostClown locked it, but there's nothing there about anyone unlocking it. @_@

Date: Sun 26 Mar 2006, 10:45 am
Mod: GhostClown (4681)
Post owner: Seraph (19239)
Action: lock
Thread: Ultima Island (16065)
Forum: All of all! (12)

[Midnight9795]

It's prolly a bug...OR maybe..just maybe...*shifty eyes* we're being invaded...>.> <.< ^.^ v.v

[Kijuki_Magazaki]

hmmm.. bugs

[Spike21]

no we are being invadedededed ...<.< >.>