Nexus - Game Maker-powered Internet Forum and Gamehub!

Hey everyone! I'm a new user here, but I'm a member at several different forums, and would like to expand the Nexus community to GameJolt! It's a Game Maker-powered internet forum.

Nexus is a forum built with Game Maker, with user accounts, polls,  private messaging, etc. You can also upload games, and allow other users to comment and rate them!

A list of current features:
- Uploadable Avatars
- Polls/Threads
- Public chatbox
- IP/Username banning
- User accounts/Profiles
- Private Messaging
- World Map
- Image sharing
- File Sharing
- Online boardgames
- Threads are shown as "New" when not read
- Timestamps w/ Time Zone support
- Full moderation/administration
- Gamehub - Sharing games, commenting, rating, etc.
- Multithreaded uploading
-There's a bunch more... I just forgot XD


Download: http://lukeescude.dyndns.org/nexus.exe

Last edited on March 27, 2011 - 12:12 PM by Luke Escude

Nexus is sweet dude. :)

Thanks! Hopefully people will come check it out.

it's a neat idea and i'm impressed!

however, you seriously need to get someone who's good at graphics on board with you.  everything about it graphically is pretty dire, from the chose fonts to the colour scheme.

a big big no-no is putting light text on a dark background on a forum, it really strains the eyes.  the buttons all look very drab and, orange.

i hope you can see this post as the contructive critism it is meant to be, not flaming.  just think your idea here coupled with someone who's good at graphics could be very nice indeed!

I'd suggest polishing the spacing and alignment.

@FixBeat, actually just yesterday, OverReact offered to re-do all my graphics, so you're in luck :D

@Ashley, haha yeah still working on anaesthetics, and it should all come together pretty soon, especially with the new graphics mentioned above.

Thanks for the opinions, guys!

Hey All - I'm heading to Paris, France tomorrow morning for a week. Little to no chance of hearing from me until then. I've rigged the Nexus server to take care of itself in case of any crashes.

Keep up the Nexus community while I'm gone, be back soon!

EDIT:

Nexus 7.3 is out! Wanted to release what I've got so far before heading off to France. 

1. Game Reporting - report a game if it's got a virus, or if it sucks or something 

2. Primitive anti-hack protection 

3. Gamehub Game count - Will tell you the number of games in each category.. NOTE: It's currently set to 0 for all categories, so teh next time someone uploads a game, it'll repopulate. 

4. Taskbar notification when someone chats in the chatbox - Only when Nexus is completely MINIMIZED 

5. 100% bugs fixed for the PM inbox 

6. Fixed chatbox depths 

7. Fixed infinite scrolling with the mousewheel 

8. Fixed BGO's missing background 

9. Fixed a major bug when uploading images. 

See you guys next week!

Last edited on March 11, 2011 - 08:58 AM by Luke Escude

Last release before I head off to France tomorrow.. Nexus 7.4 is out. 

I thought I had fixed the "Cannot define external function" issue, but I haven't. I think it's the DLL's fault since no other DLL has that issue. 

1. Whiteboards! You can go into the Whiteboards room and create a whiteboard for other users to join in. If you're the host, you can clear the whiteboard for everyone. There are different sizes and colors to choose from. 

2. Profile Comments - On user profiles, you can view and compose comments to them. 

3. Profile game links - on user profiles, you can see links to the games the user has uploaded. 

4. Fixed a bug with submitting a poll with a blank title.

Even though I'm in paris, I've decided in my current spare time that I'll release Nexus 8.0

1. Added the chatbox /me command

2.  In-post link parsing! No more external link buttons, you can actually put www. and http:// links inside your posts.

3. Topic stickying

4. Private whiteboard for the chatboxes

5. Disconnection screen, so it autoreconnects upon disconnection

6. Added ratebards on user's profile games.

GREAT UPDATE!

I'm back from France! Nexus has come quite a long way on my trip, and is becoming really popular, so I'm excited about the community it's building up.

user-designed theme packaging should be available soon, as well as the Nexus API and teh Sandbox.

Hey all! Nexus 8.1 is out! We are nearing the point in time where Nexus will no longer be in Beta!

1. When saving a whiteboard, will let you know if teh chatbox is in the way.

2. Cleaned up teh whiteboard graphics a bit

3. Gamehub description scrolling

4. Notifies you when someone makes a comment on your profile

5. Added a Sticky symbol

6. Fixed some bugs with topic stickying.

Everytime I start it tries to make me update. And if I tell it not to update it crashes...

That's very odd, no one's reported behavior like that. Maybe it's not successfully updating.

here's the manual download link:

http://lukeescude.com/nexus.exe

Still doesn't fix anything...

I tried re-installing at a new location as well.

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