If you self-host, did you have trouble setting up your Forem? Can you give advice to anyone else looking to self-host?
I self hosted on Digitalocean. It worked pretty effortlessly out of the box on an M1 laptop. I'm just used to mention the M1 compatibility because there are some tools and things that still aren't fully compatible.
Only tricky thing I managed to mess up was the DNS (it had to be DNS). I'm using a subdomain so I was supposed to use forem_domain_name: visualcosita.com and forem_subdomain_name: gggames, but didn't. I skimmed through that section too quickly I had forem_domain_name: gggames.visualcosita.com and I was getting a connection error. The error was SSL related, because the DNS records didn't match what Forem was using.
Fixed my mistake in the YAML, re-ran the playbook and worked great.
What are you looking to achieve with Forem?
I'm playing around, while also a core dev 😄 But the motivation behind the name/purpose of the Forem is:
Some of the "bucket list projects" of mine involve implementing/producing an indie game (or a few) one day. I'd love to add a community aspect to them too, and I think Forem offers so much potential for this. There's a lot of features a developer can leverage, and it's all Open Source. This is just a place to share thoughts of my own in this topic, while also thinking about how the game will actually work and come to life.
I don't have a game coded and I won't be working on it in the near future 😆
For now I'll just use the GGGames Forem to share ideas every now and then about what GGGames will hopefully one day become a reality. All while also working on Forem features themselves. Pretty exciting stuff IMO.
How do you plan to use your Forem?
Elevator pitch: A mobile app that has a 2d game where quests and/or progress in general is deeply intertwined with the community of people playing. Kind of like guilds or clans organize themselves and can connect in the Forem. Both the game itself and the entire community (Forem) experience would live in that one mobile app. Forem provides enough extensibility for all of this to work.
I won't be working on the game itself anytime soon, but I really like the big picture possibilities. I’ll just try to share thoughts about the project every now and then over there 😄
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What is your Forem? Can you share a link or is it still private?
gggames.visualcosita.com
If you self-host, did you have trouble setting up your Forem? Can you give advice to anyone else looking to self-host?
I self hosted on Digitalocean. It worked pretty effortlessly out of the box on an M1 laptop. I'm just used to mention the M1 compatibility because there are some tools and things that still aren't fully compatible.
Only tricky thing I managed to mess up was the DNS (it had to be DNS). I'm using a subdomain so I was supposed to use
forem_domain_name: visualcosita.comandforem_subdomain_name: gggames, but didn't. I skimmed through that section too quickly I hadforem_domain_name: gggames.visualcosita.comand I was getting a connection error. The error was SSL related, because the DNS records didn't match what Forem was using.Fixed my mistake in the YAML, re-ran the playbook and worked great.
What are you looking to achieve with Forem?
I'm playing around, while also a core dev 😄 But the motivation behind the name/purpose of the Forem is:
This is my first short message in the Forem
What is not working with your current solution?
I don't have a game coded and I won't be working on it in the near future 😆
For now I'll just use the GGGames Forem to share ideas every now and then about what GGGames will hopefully one day become a reality. All while also working on Forem features themselves. Pretty exciting stuff IMO.
How do you plan to use your Forem?
Elevator pitch: A mobile app that has a 2d game where quests and/or progress in general is deeply intertwined with the community of people playing. Kind of like guilds or clans organize themselves and can connect in the Forem. Both the game itself and the entire community (Forem) experience would live in that one mobile app. Forem provides enough extensibility for all of this to work.
I won't be working on the game itself anytime soon, but I really like the big picture possibilities. I’ll just try to share thoughts about the project every now and then over there 😄