About DotEmu

DotEmu is a French company dedicated to retrogaming market : bringing back yesterday's games on today computers and tomorrow devices. It's a niche market and DotEmu acts as developer, publisher, and since May 2010, digital distribution service through the DotEmu.com platform.

DotEmu.com platform

The DotEmu.com platform provides a full-featured digital distribution service dedicated to old games, written 100% in Drupal.
The development of the platform began early 2010, and went live in the form of a beta website 26th April, 2010.
From then, the website passed through numerous improvements and bugfixes.

This is a really complex Drupal website, involving more than 80 modules, built upon the following major modules :

  • Drupal 6.x
  • Content Construction Kit
  • Views 2.x
  • Panels
  • Ubercart 2.x
  • Simplenews

A lot of custom work was involved in bulding the whole system, including 3000+ lines of PHP code as custom Drupal modules to fit precisely our needs, and a complete custom theme, derived from Fusion.

If there is some interest of the community, I will be happily providing a few slides about details and pitfalls we encountered during development and enhancement of the platform.

Best Regards,
Romain Tisserand
CTO & Co-Founder
DotEmu SAS

Comments

tonypaulbarker’s picture

I have to be honest, it's hard to read the site because of the background color. I would prefer to see white, but a very dark grey of 303030 or darker / or black would be easier to read with the orange and white text.