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Promoting Gideros
Hi Giderians,
I've been in Gideros development for ten years now, and I don't plan to stop soon, but let's face it, time flies and I have no idea if I'll still need Gideros in ten years. @pie messaged me yesterday about doing a promotional campaign for Gideros, to gather new users. I'll answer you here, so that we can all discuss our options: Gideros donations are largely insufficient for an ad campaign. We could put 100EUR into it (thanks @vitalitymobile) but I am afraid this won't make a difference.
But I am not the 'owner' of Gideros. I used to pay the hosting bills, and in a way I still do (my company does), but Gideros has no legal owner, it is a community. I beg you all to spread the world about Gideros: try to convince your developer friends to give it a try, mention it in blog posts when you get a chance, every little thing you can do will help.
Gideros was great 10 years ago, it has now become extremely powerful and can easily compare to other game (or app) development tools.
Let's use this thread to discuss means of engaging more developers, and use the Wiki to write or collect promotional material. Gideros has a facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/GiderosMobile) and a X account (https://x.com/GiderosMobile/), so don't hesitate to follow them and ask me if you want to publish something.
I also believe there are many developers who use Gideros but don't participate on the forum. If you read this: don't hesitate to come and chat with us. Our community is the most friendly I have ever met.
Please, we need everyone's help to make sure Gideros won't disappear.
Nicolas
I've been in Gideros development for ten years now, and I don't plan to stop soon, but let's face it, time flies and I have no idea if I'll still need Gideros in ten years. @pie messaged me yesterday about doing a promotional campaign for Gideros, to gather new users. I'll answer you here, so that we can all discuss our options: Gideros donations are largely insufficient for an ad campaign. We could put 100EUR into it (thanks @vitalitymobile) but I am afraid this won't make a difference.
But I am not the 'owner' of Gideros. I used to pay the hosting bills, and in a way I still do (my company does), but Gideros has no legal owner, it is a community. I beg you all to spread the world about Gideros: try to convince your developer friends to give it a try, mention it in blog posts when you get a chance, every little thing you can do will help.
Gideros was great 10 years ago, it has now become extremely powerful and can easily compare to other game (or app) development tools.
Let's use this thread to discuss means of engaging more developers, and use the Wiki to write or collect promotional material. Gideros has a facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/GiderosMobile) and a X account (https://x.com/GiderosMobile/), so don't hesitate to follow them and ask me if you want to publish something.
I also believe there are many developers who use Gideros but don't participate on the forum. If you read this: don't hesitate to come and chat with us. Our community is the most friendly I have ever met.
Please, we need everyone's help to make sure Gideros won't disappear.
Nicolas
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Likes: MoKaLux
Fragmenter - animated loop machine and IKONOMIKON - the memory game
It seems that its LUA cousins are thriving but they don't look "better" under any point of view, except the size of their communities: and that's a dog chasing its tail. That's why I suggested to put some donations in online ads: maybe there is people who is looking for gideros, but have no option to be exposed to its existence because everyone else is talking about other worse (I am biased
Likes: MoKaLux
https://www.lua.org/showcase.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lua_(programming_language)-scriptable_game_engines
https://www.dragonflydb.io/game-dev/engines/lua
Likes: pie
Fragmenter - animated loop machine and IKONOMIKON - the memory game
- add the good comunity to the list of features
-add some link section to it somewhere with links to these things (and maybe more i missed):
1. to the forum
2. link to https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Welcome!
3. to the github page of gideros
4. to the showcase https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Made_With_Gideros
Fragmenter - animated loop machine and IKONOMIKON - the memory game
Fragmenter - animated loop machine and IKONOMIKON - the memory game
People may assume it's only for mobiles
Possible alternatives:
-Gideros Studio
-Gideros SDK
-Gideros Rocks
-Gideros?
Where do I see Gideros Mobile:
-https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Welcome! banner on top left corner
-the visuals in loading web app
-the visuals in Gideros/Tools folder
-in the wiki search bar (Search GiderosMobile)
-...
How do coders choose to use an engine/framework?:
-they see/play a great game made with that engine/framework
-they know they have good documentation
-they know they have good tutorials
-they know they have a big community
PS: I submitted an update https://enginesdatabase.com/?pagination=2
PS2: as you can see competition is hard
Likes: keszegh, pie
Fragmenter - animated loop machine and IKONOMIKON - the memory game
https://gcup.ru/news/obnovlenie_gideros_2024_11_1/2024-11-11-15704
- Gideros (only Gideros?)*
- Gideros Framework*
- Gideros Rocks my favorite*
- Gideros SDK my second favorite**
- Gideros Studio my favorite too*
- ???
top 1 result in google search (on my machine):
* https://www.gideros.rocks/ that is super cool
** https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Gideros_Studio
PS: https://enginesdatabase.com/?pagination=2 has been updated and now Gideros is on the 1st page
Btw i always have issues to define what gideros is. A development enviroment? An sdk? Both? Studio would be then better, but i think it is also misleading, has art-app vibe. framework is perhaps the most close to what it actually is, as far as i understand these words. In any case we should decide.
Likes: MoKaLux
Fragmenter - animated loop machine and IKONOMIKON - the memory game