*** MARCH CHALLENGE: Not Your Father's Random Dungeon ***

[alucard339]

That is a great idea and good Job Redrobes,
I proud of you ,
Alu.

[pyrandon]

Redrobes, this is freaking amazing! I have no idea how long that took, but I love it! I think we should do something like that for each month's challenge, whether we have 2 million entries or 2.

Thank you thank you thank you!

(Repped!)

[Redrobes]

Thanks Anu & Don, it didn't take more than a few minutes. The hard part is/will be keeping it up to date so I hope people will forgive me if I am a few days behind. I have changed the images to local made thumbnails as it was loading all the large images in from the site. I deliberately kept them small so that there is some incentive to look at the thread and get the text and latest updates. Its no more than a quick rough guide to remind me what the round up is like. I find it useful when the voting starts to have the list of entries but this month we have 14 entries and 2 promises so I need it now. Since you think its a good idea ill try to do this each month and post the link right after the opening of the challenge so the link is at the top. Ta for the rep

[alucard339]

Any admin:

Redrobes The thumbnail link should be made a sticky alone post just below the challenge rules.



It will definitely be an awesome upgrade to the voting process, more to the point for those timid members who don't want to go through all the text of each entry,

Really a great job Redrobes and good initiative. I'm happy and jealous of you because, I had that idea since last December challenge, but I'm really not good at web programming so can't do it for now.

Here get 1 rep point from me, because you could do something I wanted to do.

Maybe we could work Redrobes page a little to give it the same look as the rest of our forum and by the same account make a default version for each month challenge.

[Redrobes]

Firstly, if you want to know how its done just display the source and play. I just write it in wordpad - no special app required. You would need to copy all the thumbnail images and put them in the same directory as I have used relative pathnames for them.

I was thinking about (perhaps !) doing a little Perl script which could scrape a section off of a fixed post and build the page automatically so that any admin could then edit the post and it would update the page. I'm not sure if I would have the time to try that but it sounds doable. I have done something similar in a previous incarnation so that a wiki page had a text based data on stuff and the CGI Perl draw a map based on the stuff so wiki edits made the map. If this site could support custom perl CGI scripts then that would be fine or else I'll host it like the current one.

[Sigurd]

I just wanted to apologize for my disappearance and wish all the competitors well. Real life has kept me from a computer for most of the last couple of weeks.

The entries look good and it is interesting to see all of them using the same room layout.


Good luck to each of you.


Sigurd

[RobA]

I just wanted to apologize for my disappearance and wish all the competitors well. Real life has kept me from a computer for most of the last couple of weeks.

The entries look good and it is interesting to see all of them using the same room layout.


Good luck to each of you.


Sigurd

I was concerned that I had frightened you away after my "rule judgment". Hope you find the time to get some mapping done Maybe next month's contest!

-Rob A>