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June 1^st, 2008 I launched my next web campaign and development concept: Game in the Making – Open Community Game Development.

http://www.gameinthemaking.com

Pre-launch marketing announcement is as follows:

As of June 1st I will be launching a new website called Gameinthemaking.com. It will be the first ever Open Community Game Development site where public participants will use all OSS such as blender to eventually begin the creation process of a game of the communities choice. This website will operate and be unveiled in 4 seperate stages. The first stage is all about ideas. A limited section of the sites forums will open up for game idea discussion, some polls and surveys will be opened to determine what type of game people will most want to develop. During the second stage the game will be storyboarded and discussed by the community, up until the next stages of the development process. This is a way to make a game that the public wants to play according to them. During the third phase of the project a small draft will be held among the most active people in the community to choose who will be assigned certain positions in the development process. The 4th stage of the project is a secret that will only be known among the GITM staff. Please let me know what you think and if you’d like more information about the site, project, goals, or advertising please feel free to contact me. Thank you for your time,

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I’m sure you all have heard the acronyms “C.G.I.” thrown about in one context or another. It stands for several things, but generally only two come to mind: Common Gateway Interface & Computer Generated Imagery. CGI to me always seems to represent Common Gateway Interface, mainly because in web development you encounter the letters CGI way more often than you would working with computer graphics packages. For instance, your cgi-bin directory at the base of most web servers. I’m not going to delve into the many definitions CGI can have or talk about which definition is more deserving of these three letters. No, I’m simply going to state that CGI should from now on only represent Common Gateway Interface and Computer Generated Imagery should be changed to Computer Generated Visuals.

Help me push the renaming to CGV and we will never have to hear “whoa sweet CGI” at the movie theaters again.

If you’d like more information about the two definitions of CGI, please visit the following links:

Common Gateway Interface

Computer Generated Imagery (soon to be CGV with any luck)