Updating old Resource Links --- with the New Garage Games Site
by Britton LaRoche · 01/14/2009 (6:52 pm) · 4 comments
If you are like me you probably have thousands of Browser Based bookmarks that may have been outdated by the upgrade to the new website.
Don't Panic! There is a fairly easy way to get them working again.
A few weeks ago I posted a list of resources I'm using to port my game from TGB to TGEA. I posted this link to help the community, but I posted it mainly to help myself keep track of where these resources are.
The FPS resource list is here.
After I searched through the blog list to find it. I noticed that all the old resource links are broken with the new site. After a few minutes I figured out how to update the links with the new format
Note you can replace
http://www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=
with either http://www.garagegames.com/community/blogs/view/ or community/resources/view they will both work.
One you get to your desired resource it may have a link to another resource using the old resource link... you'll need to update the header in your browser with the same trick. Just put http://www.garagegames.com/community/blogs/view/ in front of the resource id.
The only problem with the new resource page is that I no longer see the download links for resources that had attachments. The download links followed the basic premise of
Note, being the tard that I am I just noticed a similar blog (after I posted this one) with a little tool to help Resource Link Tool
Hope this helps!
Don't Panic! There is a fairly easy way to get them working again.
A few weeks ago I posted a list of resources I'm using to port my game from TGB to TGEA. I posted this link to help the community, but I posted it mainly to help myself keep track of where these resources are.
The FPS resource list is here.
After I searched through the blog list to find it. I noticed that all the old resource links are broken with the new site. After a few minutes I figured out how to update the links with the new format
Old Format http://www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=2312 New format http://www.garagegames.com/community/resources/view/2312 or http://www.garagegames.com/community/blogs/view/2312
Note you can replace
http://www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=
with either http://www.garagegames.com/community/blogs/view/ or community/resources/view they will both work.
One you get to your desired resource it may have a link to another resource using the old resource link... you'll need to update the header in your browser with the same trick. Just put http://www.garagegames.com/community/blogs/view/ in front of the resource id.
The only problem with the new resource page is that I no longer see the download links for resources that had attachments. The download links followed the basic premise of
http://www.garagegames.com/uploaded/code/<resourceid><resourcename>.zip http://www.garagegames.com/uploaded/code/14558.astar.zipBut the old download links no longer seem to work.
Note, being the tard that I am I just noticed a similar blog (after I posted this one) with a little tool to help Resource Link Tool
Hope this helps!
#2
I will say, I have seen entire departments, even agencies collapsed over site launches this poor in big business. You guys may want to consider a belt for those big britches ;p
Good luck to GG on wrangling this mess.
01/14/2009 (11:45 pm)
The fact that a user has to support the forums baffles me to no ends as to why GG thinks their products are quality enough for price hikes. Perhaps there is a viable plan behind all this madness that I just can't see...I will say, I have seen entire departments, even agencies collapsed over site launches this poor in big business. You guys may want to consider a belt for those big britches ;p
Good luck to GG on wrangling this mess.
#3
http://www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=76757
to:
http://www.garagegames.com/community/forums/viewthread/76757
I found one link in your FPS resource list to be a forum link, might be more. You might want to update that too.
01/15/2009 (1:47 am)
To get forum posts from old links try from: http://www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=76757
to:
http://www.garagegames.com/community/forums/viewthread/76757
I found one link in your FPS resource list to be a forum link, might be more. You might want to update that too.
Associate Tom Eastman (Eastbeast314)