Specky, one of the founders of DiddlySquat, has given his personal account of the demise of DiddlySquat.
According to the Irish Gaming and Roleplaying Wiki:
Diddlysquat is an RPG publishing company founded by Geoff Moore in 2004 with the intention of producing a horror/sci-fi tabletop RPG called Spectres. The Spectres game was intended to be released as three prequels followed by the main game system.
But sadly DiddlySquat is no more and I guess we won’t be seeing Spectres as a full game (though the work will probably be made available via GCG).
When you read this kind of things it really makes you cynical about the communities involved (both online and offline). Sure I’ve argued and caused near-flame wars in the online half of the Irish gaming community, but I would hope that people don’t bare grudges and that they should realise that, sometimes, antagonistic nature of online discussion is actually healthy. But I don’t think that’s true. People do hold grudges for the slightest things.
So, here is a farewell to another doomed project of the Irish Gaming Community. I roll my dice to you (*sounds of all dice scattering across the table and getting lost on the floor* doh!) 
As an aside, I can’t help but draw some parrallels to this earlier history of other projects in the community too and the recent flop of the an Game Chef concept (see this comment). I guess I’m too old for this shit. 
Found this neat little feature in Pligg that allows you to easily add a link to Pligg. The simple code can be expanded so you can add a button to your webpage that allows it to be easily submitted to Pligg. It’s not world-shattering, nor is it an unusual feature to find.
However, if your a Redbrick Member you could add this piece of code to any of your webpages that would all you or another Redbrick user to submit it to Pligg.
If you want, you can replace “document.location.href” with an explicit URL. I guess what we really need is a icon for Redbrick Pligg!
I’m considering adding it to Planet Redbrick and Redbrick Wiki. Is it a good idea? I could package it up in a Wordpress plugin but I don’t know how many Redbrick Bloggers use Wordpress.
The same also applies for Game Crafter’s Guild’s Pligg, however this Pligg is specifically for Gaming and Roleplaying related content, and we don’t have an icon either!
… and just a little soul draining. My last few entries on my blog have all been about the Game Crafters Guild website and mostly technical in nature. Here, here and here.
I thought the idea behind the GCG site was/is a good one. It would be something I would contribute to and participate in. So I made a new feature-rich version of it and it went live a little while ago. I didn’t just plug together some pieces of software, I wrote code to join them, tested it, created new themes and templates for and brought it all together. It works. It is alive.
However, it is barely shambling forward.
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I’ve managed to get Pliggto use Wordpress authentication and user database. You can see it running on the Game Crafter’s Guild website.
I recently got Pligg using Pubcookie and that formed the basis of this work, however they are very different.
I’ve only tested this with Pligg Beta 8.1.0. I believe future versions may have a better approach for external authentication so I can’t guarantee this will work with future versions.
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This extension does not transform your Wordpress (WP) posts into DokuWiki (DW) entires. If your looking for that functionality, I’d recommend doing a google search for dwBliki plugin.
What this extension does is to get DokuWiki to use Wordpress’ authentication, i.e. DokuWiki to use Wordpress’ user database, using an authentication plugin for DokuWiki.
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So I’ve been quiet. Hidden away in a bunker, miles underground. All I had was a laptop and broadband. 
The data packets crackled with the potential of lightning. My eyes were bleary and red as I fumbled trying to stitched the limbs on… in my final moments of exhaustion, I was transfixed with horror as it opened it’s eyes…
“It’s alive…” I shuddered before I lost my mind.
Well the truth is, I probably lost my mind long before then.
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