Comments on: FastMovingGames Website Development Plan

By: Milestone Reached - Development::Games Engine Complete | Behind-The-Scenes of a Board Games Website

Mon, 26 May 2008 06:32:05 +0000

[...] those that have been following the progress of FastMovingGames and read the website development plan I posted originally, then you’ll understand the why this is such a [...]

By: Milestone Reached - Development::Framework Complete - FastMovingGames | Behind-The-Scenes of a Board Games Website

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:35:31 +0000

[...] those that have been following the progress of FastMovingGames and read the website development plan I posted a week ago, then you’ll know that building a site like this requires a significant [...]

By: Brother Flomsk

Brother Flomsk — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 05:36:42 +0000

Hay I’m only the coder’s other half and my talents stop at playing Diablo and writing emails, but I can say that watching the blog stats go up each day is very inspiring and is keeping Dan happy and hard at work on the site.

Personally, I can’t wait until it’s all up and running - of course, I have a head start as I may be the only other person in the universe who knows what it’s all about - mwahahahahaha

(Bribes in the form of ‘visits to feed the giraffes’ welcome…)

By: AJ

AJ — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:55:20 +0000

Gosh, it is all a bit vague and mysterious. Should we play a guessing game where we try and guess what the idea is and earn prizes for guessing correctly? I’ll go first with my first three guesses:
(a) A tournament managing application with leader board and individual game playing statistics organised and customised for various games
(b) A live game scheduling and player finding tool for inviting people to play games.
(c) A laptop-at-your-side game info tracking application that manages some elements of your board game for you.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:39:46 +0000

Hi Tim,

Yeh, sorry for the intentional fuzziness - its not a site for playing games online - that was the original idea (check out the first post on the blog). The core concept for the site is quite different, and will be revealed over the next few months as I complete development and prepare for the launch.

As for ambition - motivation, and watching the visitor stats go up is enough to keep me trying to reach those goals.

For example, this week I plan to complete the underlying core framework to make the site actually work. Once this is done, hopefully should have the core bit of the site completed within the next few weeks (got to figure out how to represent a certain updating bit of data that’s got my mind twisted at the moment).

Cheers,
-Dan

By: tim

tim — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:30:43 +0000

So I’ve had a skim over it, and I’m a bit fuzzy on what you plan on providing - actual online game play? via Ajax? Seems pretty ambitious to have ‘Core Games Engine Complete’ in the first months…

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:06:54 +0000

Bob:
Thanks for the great feedback, and I’ll definitely add you to my beta testers list when I finally reach this stage.

Albert:
Good to hear there’s other entrepreneurs out there willing to risk some time and effort doing something for themselves. Good luck, and keep the PHP list updated when you launch.

Regarding Amazon, I’ll definitely consider S3 for at least image hosting when the time comes. With EC2, I’ll probably go with some free hosting to start, probably leave on web drive until I start hitting their usage limits, then look at EC2 when I need to.

I see that BoardGameGeek reached their million unique users per month milestone recently, so if this site generates any where near that sort of traffic, then EC2 may need to be a definite probability, although theres quite a learning and technical support curve in doing this. Still, will lead to a massively scalable website if needed.

Thanks for your comments,
-Dan

By: albert

albert — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:59:52 +0000

Hi Dan,

Nice to see someone in the same boat as me! I think though you’re a few steps ahead of me though in that you can code the stuff yourself. anyways my site, EzyHire (an online marketplace for buying services via quotations and tender process), should be ready in about the same time as yours (The code is all complete but requires some reskinning and some small modification before going live)..

Anyways I look forward to seeing your site up and running! Nice idea also:)

Cheers
Albert

Ps: whats your plans with regards to hosting? since the posts in the phpug i have seriously got xcited about amazons web services. whats your take on that?

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:34:53 +0000

Looks like you have a good solid plan for future development. I look forward to watching your site grow.

I am interested in participating in your testing when the time comes.

I also have some experience with PHP and MySQL. If you ever run into an obstacle, need a hand or just want another set of eyes to look at a problem, I’d be happy to do so.