Originally Posted by Jerrythabest (Post 450238)

Would also be cool to host a JCS server :D So that others can join to see it (that's a live 'making of' :p) and possibly (after getting permission from the host) help building.


That would be a great start for my never-really-started-but-I-did-make-a-thread-for-it-somewhere-on-this-board 'Lets Make A Level' project. Just cut the level into a few pieces and assign those to the participants. While they are able to design their own stuff inside the assigned area, they can easily link up with the areas around them to improve the level's 'flow'.

Originally Posted by DarkB (Post 450257)

I think it would be cool to have this 'online level editor':-)
dunno if is possible to make this..:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by DJazz (Post 450375)

What about this:
I working on a web-based JCS using JavaScript and PHP, it's not much preassure on the server, because the PHP is generating the tileset image, level data only, Ajax is only needed if you want to save. You can put tiles in the lvl, nothing more yet. No save feature because I don't know how to make the 2D arrays into J2l words.

Originally Posted by DJazz (Post 450375)

Ajax is only needed if you want to save.

Originally Posted by DarkB (Post 450377)

great, keep workin' :cool:

Originally Posted by DJazz (Post 450391)

Here is a screenshot of the web-based JCS: http://djazz.mine.nu/files/webJCS.png ;)

Originally Posted by plunK (Post 450393)

That looks quite neat actually. Only 1 problem. There are probably a good thousand at lest tilesets and people tend to avoid standards, and many use customs, how will you deal with that?

Originally Posted by plunK (Post 450415)

I just opened the link to your web JCS. It works, but it ran and almost frooze loading (which took about 5 minutes) then it nearly freezes again when trying to change layers =\

Originally Posted by DJazz (Post 450416)

That's because it not use Web Workers yet, and when click a layer button it create the array containing all tiles.

Originally Posted by plunK (Post 450415)

I just opened the link to your web JCS. It works, but it ran and almost frooze loading (which took about 5 minutes) then it nearly freezes again when trying to change layers =\

Originally Posted by Cpp (Post 450436)

You could always use a Flash version. Flash cookies can store larger amounts of data.

Originally Posted by DJazz (Post 450424)

If the data should be saved on the server, then make a php that save it. Or save it locally with cookies or LocalStorage(read that html5 page)

Originally Posted by Fquist (Post 450440)

Are you suggesting I code it, or am I misreading you? If the latter, no time, sorry

Originally Posted by DJazz (Post 457593)

At the moment there only exists one tileset, but I will implant a "get tileset from j2o" feature so u can use any tileset on there

Originally Posted by Hunter (Post 457625)

1. Have WebJCS here on J2O available to authors. It would allow quick edits to levels, eliminating the need of re-uploading. As Slaz noted, people would be able to tweak their levels without having access to their JJ2 installation.

Originally Posted by Troglobite (Post 457654)

I like this idea. However, I have the perspective of an uploader, not someone in charge of J2O, so I don't know if there are any issues with it for them.

Originally Posted by Stijn (Post 457724)

I think it'd be possible, at least technically. We store the files as individual .j2l and .j2t files already, so only a few changes would be required to add an interface on top of that. The real issue is of course whether uploaders would agree with their levels being "open" like that. It's something that should be discussed, were we to go through with it.

Originally Posted by Hunter (Post 457747)

This is why I suggested there should be a password.

Originally Posted by Hunter (Post 457747)

Yeah, that's what my idea originally was.



This is why I suggested there should be a password. Only editors trusted by the author would be able to edit the level this way. The original author could be able to delete attachments that are too bad (maybe they shouldn't be entirely deleted from J2O - some authors might possibly delete files that are completely fine but they don't like for some reason (or is that their right?)).
I imagine something like this on the upload page:

Community contribution settings:

Disable contribution
Allow level preview
Allow level preview (require password)
Allow edits (automatically post as attachment)
Allow edits (require password)
Allow edits (require author's approval)

I'm in favour of this "automatically post as attachment" option because there are authors who don't come to J2O very often or leave the site for a longer while and are therefore unable to approve proposed changes.

Another idea: something like a level wiki. I don't mean an encyclopaedia, of course, but something following the same idea that anyone can be an editor, contributing to a project as much as they could. People would say what they've changed (and specify whether it's a minor or major change), there could also be an option to compare changes. Malicious changes would be reverted with one click.

Originally Posted by Hunter (Post 457747)

I'm in favour of this "automatically post as attachment" option because there are authors who don't come to J2O very often or leave the site for a longer while and are therefore unable to approve proposed changes.

Originally Posted by Unknown Rabbit (Post 457771)

Project Forward once made a very collaborative level and there are plenty of smaller collaborations among two or three people, all of which seem to work out. I think making the collaboration this much more direct, along the lines of Google Docs, could only lead to bigger and better things.