Fallout Studios Data Bunker
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Fallout Studios Data Bunker, or FSDB for short, is the free to edit Wikipedia style information centre for the Fallout Studios community. It was written entirely by the members of the community, who are based across the globe.
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Creating the Fallout Studios Data Bunker
The Fallout Studios Data Bunker grew out of a possible ShockWave and EStudios wiki proposed by CodeCat, it is now used to house information on all aspects of the Fallout Studios community. This includes the members of the community, the jokes they use to amuse each other and the modifications we host.
Fallout Studios Data Bunker development
Fallout Studios Data Bunker development started in early 2008 when CodeCat started building the ES/SHW/SWR Wiki. From this grew the completed ShockWave manual, a number of SWR Productions team were involved in creating templates or supplying images. As the release date neared several naming decisions were made and an excess of 500 images had to be moved from one category to another. Between WARthog and Dauth this was completed in a couple of days. During the building of the ShockWave manual it was decided to rename E-Studios to Fallout Studios, the name E-Studios belonging to Chrizz who was no longer active in the community. Development was slowing after the completion of the manual until June when Dauth started working on the community aspects of the Fallout Studios Data Bunker. The Fallout Studios Data Bunker was worked on in private for a number of months by the ShockWave and the moderating teams before release on Ground Zero.
Artwork development
During the development of the main page by CodeCat and Dauth, it became apparent that both a banner and logo would be required. In total, five banners were created, as were two matching logos, from which the current versions were chosen. The table below highlights the history of the various banners and the logos that accompanied them.
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 | This was the first banner as commissioned by Dauth from The Dr, who has consistently proven to be Dauth's 'go-to guy' when it comes to artwork. The image was deemed to be too bright, as well as being too wide, making it unsuitable for some users' displays, considering their width restrictions.
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 | The second banner swiftly followed, with The Dr editing his original image so that the width was reduced and more suitable for users. The image was also darkened, but in the process, the text became slightly illegible when compared with the rest of the image.
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 | Considered to be the climax of The Dr's work, this version was seen as suitable for the Main Page of the Fallout Studios Data Bunker, and was used as such for a while during the testing phases of the Fallout Studios Data Bunker.
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 | This version of the banner is exactly the same as the previous one, but was coloured orange so as to match the skin that was being developed for the website.
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 | The final version of the banner, this was created by Wizard so as to match the skin of the forum website exactly. When this was developed, the previous versions as created by The Dr were scrapped.
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 | The original logo used by the Fallout Studios Data Bunker. The image was designed by Wizard prior to The Dr's work on the banners above - they were designed to match the logo itself. However, it became obsolete once the skin for the website was shown to be orange.
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| The final, and current version of the logo, designed by Wizard
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Fallout Studios Data Bunker after public release
Following the release of the Fallout Studios Data Bunker to the community, it quickly became apparent that the site would be accessed on a continuous basis. People rapidly began adding pages, with the number of pages having more than doubled in the 3 months since release. The Fallout Studios Data Bunker has a similar editing style to Wikipedia, requiring that only factual information be added and that opinions and conjecture are not submitted, however as it is a community project some looser language structure and humorous turns of phrase are acceptable. Since the release, the Fallout Studios Data Bunker has seen several new manuals created for popular games, such as Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, as well as many new user pages. The creation of the new user pages has been seen as a great success, as the rules state that a new user page cannot be created by the user that it describes, meaning that all of the new user pages had to be created selflessly, resulting in a great achievement by the community.
See also
· Fallout Studios · Fallout Studios IRC Channel · Fallout Studios forums · Fallout Studios Data Bunker · Fallout Studios staff ·
· Fallout Studios Game Servers · Fallout Studios prize fund · History of Fallout Studios · Fallout Studios Hosting Package ·
