I know that there are many users here who could do the job. It's a long term commitment, though, and just like JJ&BUM, it will not be brought to finish without a lot of work. Not to mention that the project will need maintenance, patches, etc.

I say let's see who can get a prototype done and we will move on from there. I'm not a member of Conitec's team, but maybe we can all sponsor (at least partially) the project.

+1

George why you not ask Jcl if he can offer a reward like an A8 Pro upgrade, for the best-made web page. For example, i see that EVO still has a commercial version, and that he had missed won a Pro in the last contest. If the EVO or someone else can make a similar web page as it is "Unity Asset Store", it's a small price, and i think everyone would be satisfied, right? Then collecting of new, fresh models and scripts just leave us.
I totaly agre with Quad, but i'm afraid if we wait on Conitect to do it, maybe it will never happen. I still can't believe that people who work in Conitect do not realize how important it is to have a good site and advertising in general.

That is a good idea. I'll ask JCL about it.

That's cool because I started an exercise yesterday: Make an AU rebuilt with wordpress. I thought it was a waste of time regarding to the objetive but funny and refreshing. Maybe can be more now

I copied the main funtionality struct of the actual page but gived a basic high contrasted flat look taking benefit of a couple of known plugins. No comercial resources and demos.



I just finished the whole funtionality and the first css setup.
Take a look here!

There are only the few last resorces uploaded. Enough for testing.

works pretty nifty on my phone !

it looks much better than the old one, I especially like the short info appearing after clicking on an item, but before downloading. maybe it could be in a little popup window to be faster and more handy. and the black background could be a dark grey, I like to have a bit less overall contrast. and later more sub-categories should be introduced. and user rating would be great too.

what I think, without new extended content it would worth nothing, and old bad-looking stuff should be removed, or put in an archive bag. fortunately many free stuff available for converting and sharing, only a txt file should be attached showing its origin. I did it for MapBuilder, but other game engine developers also do it. of course, its downloading, evaluation, conversion requires a lot of time and efforts. if a new site is created I can help (buildings, props, terrains, vegetation models, bone and vertex animated characters, textures with normalmap etc.).

moreover, it would be also the responsibility of the engine owner to provide free assets and demos for his users to attract more and more, not only of the community... not mentioning tutorials. other engines have tons of video tutorials...

Good job, I like it!

Nice wordpress prototype. Glad to see others making an effort for this project.

George : Are we going to have a contest on the best AU design? Or should I just submit it to the forum when I finish? Have you talked to JCL yet?

I am already about 60% done with my version of AU.
Features include :
1. A Clean, mobile friendly, responsive design.
2. Easy navigation with dynamically changing page content.
3. A custom html/JavaScript system to control contributions.
4. Includes a "HowToUpdate.pdf with detailed instructions on updating the code for new items so that a single person should have no trouble managing the new AU site.

I have plans to add more features, but for now, a new AU should be good enough. It can always be turned into an actual marketplace later on if needed.

A fully working prototype will be completed soon. For best performance it will be temporarily uploaded to evoeon.com to allow everyone to test it. I'll have more details after hearing what JCL is deciding to do.

Wordpress is not a bad idea actually.

Regarding the design you might want to use a brighter background color. The grey coloring makes it look old somehow.
Also you might want to give CSS background gradients for a neater look a try.
Free to use neat webfonts including webfont generator can be found here: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/

I'm glad you like it.

I agree with Firoball. A free cms or the like is a good idea.

I have to say that I am a horrible designer. I have tried for years with any good result so I minimized the objetives of the exercise. I do really thought it was pretty finished but a couple of details such the page title font and a simple contact/upload form

The premises were:
- Responsive, of course.
- Light weight to the skeleton: no bitmaps, no javascript. I realize it is not a contest winner premise and I have already broken it with the download image xP
- Tight header, top menu category navigator and no page scrolling on wide screens (almost on lists).
- Native wordpress features: upload files by the media manager, a custom post type for resources and the standart categories and tags system.
- Make no changes to Georges role as admin: no user registration, no comments, no text for news. Just a new uploading method as the minimum admin effort.

That was my straight path and it has been crooked