HTML5 Docs - I need your input

[Zoo]

It's steven, of course!

[Connors]

Maybe I'll make a game about Steven.

[Gan]

Big change!

Timers are no longer made through CreateTimer.

Instead you do var myTimer = new Timer(method, interval)

[Zoo]

Maybe I'll make a game about Steven.

Ok. Steven is a serial killer who roams the earth searching to kill waldo. In fact, if you look close enough at "Where's waldo in the gamemakers garage" you can see him. He enjoys toast with strawberry frosting and pink and white marshmallows on top. He prefers store brand crackers to the name brand kind and owns a bakery in narnia. He has a vacation home in candyland and enjoys going there to terrorize young travelers trying to get the the candy castle. He currently lives in Hoboken, new jearsey. He has a pet turtle named William.

I hope that's enough information, steven is a very private man and likes to keep to himself.

[Connors]

Okay, I finished this cool toy with spaceships, I want to put it in my signature now.
http://gamemakersgarage.com/html5/HTML5-ShareGame.php?gameID=131

Could you keep the text onronc.deviantart.com above it? thanks!

[Connors]

If you could enter the names of people you want to allow to edit a project I'd really appreciate it. Me and Kurt were talking about collaborating and I know it would help if we start porting Space Marine.
All I ask is in addition to that program it to warn you when others are editing the project so you don't overwrite eachothers work.

[Zoo]

I'll contribute, but I can't do much in the HTML5 thingamabob.

[Gan]

I'm going to branch off the HTML5 GameMaker to make an HTML5 Group Project GameMaker.

I'm going to chop a lot of stuff out, when you make a project, you can add people to be able to edit the game. There'll be a chat box incorporated into the interface. You'll be able to see who's editing what at all times.
I can't guarantee a time frame, I'll probably get started on it sometime.

[Connors]

Yeeeeeeeaaaah the name just got even longer!

[GMG Kurt]

*IDEA*
a guest user, so that people who just want to try it out can test some code. All the projects in the guest user would be deleted at the end of the month, to encourage people to make real users, and they'd have to have a real user to ask help, and post their game, so there's also that incentive.

The motivation for this is that people don't like making accounts, if they can try it out without an account it might seems more user oriented than most online programs. 

[Gan]

I suppose that'd work. But I couldn't store guest data on the server. I could store it locally on the Guest user's computer. But it'd be lost if they emptied their cache or went to a new computer.

[GMG Kurt]

yeah it's the tradeoff for not being a user, oh and they shouldn't be able to export the code.

[Gan]

Hmm. I suppose I could add a "Try" feature. Where they can play with Game Templates.

[Connors]

That would be fine, they could get a preview and try editing templates but probably not save anything.

[GMG Kurt]

not to derail this or anything, but I was studying programming theory, and stumbled upon some interesting things, heres a few.
1.) the Lambda is the universal symbol for programming
2.) programming existed before computers (lambda calculus)
3.) the entirety of programming was invented by two guys (Alonzo Church & Stephen Cole Kleene)
4.) and HTML5GM is a Metaprogramming language

interesting topic... the wikipedia page kinda sucks though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language_theory#Generic_and_metaprogramming

ps I mostly posted it here for the 4th point :p