Building a Game Community - Blog #3
by Javier Canon · 06/07/2009 (2:45 pm) · 4 comments
Hi, in the last blog, i show you how you can setup Drupal, in this blog ill show you how fine tunning your site. (I use Drupal 6.x).
Ubercart Shop
Ill use Ubercart because have membership by roles, file downloads, coupons (module), and popular payment providers.
www.ubercart.org/payment
drupal.org/project/uc_coupon
Organic groups: Remember clan or tribes?... Enable users to create and manage their own 'groups'. Each group can have subscribers, and maintains a group home page where subscribers communicate amongst themselves...
drupal.org/project/og
Smileys: :-D
drupal.org/project/smileys
Google Analytics: Adds the Google Analytics web statistics tracking system to your website...
drupal.org/project/google_analytics
Private Messages: Privatemsg allows your site's visitors to send private messages to each other. Perfect for community oriented sites, such as forums and social networking sites...
drupal.org/project/privatemsg
Simplenews: publishes and sends newsletters to lists of subscribers. Both anonymous and authenticated users can opt-in to different mailing lists...
drupal.org/project/simplenews
User Points: This module provides an API for users to gain or lose points for performing certain actions on your site. In conjunction with other modules, such as the userpoints Nodes and Comments users can accumulate points for actions such as posting nodes, commenting or moderation duties...
drupal.org/project/userpoints
User Relationships: Allows users to create named relationships between each other. It is the basic building block for a social networking site, or any site where users are aware of one another, and communicate.
drupal.org/project/user_relationships
Subscription: This module enables users to subscribe to be notified of changes to nodes or taxonomies, such as new comments in specific forums, or additions to some category of blog...
drupal.org/project/subscriptions
Ok, you have a website, now maybe you need a theme.
Commercial:
www.templatemonster.com/category/drupal-templates
Free:
drupal.org/project/Themes
Yeaaaaaaa!!!, you have the tools, now the most important thing, make content, promote, and make cool games :D!
Ill need a custom modules for my games: score board, chat (maybe use irc or xmpp protocol), strategic map, etc..., you can find more game related modules in drupal.org
drupal.org/project/modules?text=game
ex. xbox: drupal.org/project/xbox_api
Today, ill put a new theme for my website: www.softcannon.com
Ubercart Shop
Ill use Ubercart because have membership by roles, file downloads, coupons (module), and popular payment providers.
www.ubercart.org/payment
drupal.org/project/uc_coupon
RECOMMENDED MODULES PART 2
Organic groups: Remember clan or tribes?... Enable users to create and manage their own 'groups'. Each group can have subscribers, and maintains a group home page where subscribers communicate amongst themselves...
drupal.org/project/og
Smileys: :-D
drupal.org/project/smileys
Google Analytics: Adds the Google Analytics web statistics tracking system to your website...
drupal.org/project/google_analytics
Private Messages: Privatemsg allows your site's visitors to send private messages to each other. Perfect for community oriented sites, such as forums and social networking sites...
drupal.org/project/privatemsg
Simplenews: publishes and sends newsletters to lists of subscribers. Both anonymous and authenticated users can opt-in to different mailing lists...
drupal.org/project/simplenews
User Points: This module provides an API for users to gain or lose points for performing certain actions on your site. In conjunction with other modules, such as the userpoints Nodes and Comments users can accumulate points for actions such as posting nodes, commenting or moderation duties...
drupal.org/project/userpoints
User Relationships: Allows users to create named relationships between each other. It is the basic building block for a social networking site, or any site where users are aware of one another, and communicate.
drupal.org/project/user_relationships
Subscription: This module enables users to subscribe to be notified of changes to nodes or taxonomies, such as new comments in specific forums, or additions to some category of blog...
drupal.org/project/subscriptions
THEMES
Ok, you have a website, now maybe you need a theme.
Commercial:
www.templatemonster.com/category/drupal-templates
Free:
drupal.org/project/Themes
NEXT...
Yeaaaaaaa!!!, you have the tools, now the most important thing, make content, promote, and make cool games :D!
Ill need a custom modules for my games: score board, chat (maybe use irc or xmpp protocol), strategic map, etc..., you can find more game related modules in drupal.org
drupal.org/project/modules?text=game
ex. xbox: drupal.org/project/xbox_api
Today, ill put a new theme for my website: www.softcannon.com
About the author
Born to be wild!!!...
#2
06/07/2009 (8:57 pm)
Great info Javier, any hope using drupal for making IA(instant action) site for indies. T3D has the tech to play in the browser but a lobby is not provided. 
#3
I can help anyone set up a basic module if they need me to. I can also help with custom themes ... my current job sees me customising Drupal the whole day anyway ... so I can help if anyone needs it.
06/07/2009 (9:05 pm)
Lobbies are pretty easy to write ... everything in Drupal is PHP based and the ability to extend the CMS with modules is extremely powerful.I can help anyone set up a basic module if they need me to. I can also help with custom themes ... my current job sees me customising Drupal the whole day anyway ... so I can help if anyone needs it.
#4
You can found some books about that or search google for tutorials.
www.google.com.co/search?q=make+modules+for+drupal
06/08/2009 (3:15 am)
Thanks for the replies, @Konrand like @Quinton says i'm planed use modules to extend Drupal.You can found some books about that or search google for tutorials.
www.google.com.co/search?q=make+modules+for+drupal
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