The Forum upgrade has now been done and the new forums are running (although theyll need some changes and ill need to look into porting some of our custom graphics from the old setup).
Before I launch it however its time to get this site updated as well. Ive done the upgrade on that but its got a few issues (old plugins need updating and such).
Lastly I want to look into some spam protection for both before i make the sites too public.
Look forward to both sites being properly back online fairly soon, as well as more mod news.
Im taking the forums down for an upgrade (well, porting to other software).
Could be 5 minutes, could be a couple days...it depends.
On the plus side stay tuned for updates on the mod (im trying out a new years "get the hell on with stuff for christ sakes" thing involving catching up on my vast pile of old games, projects and things ive wanted to catch up on.).
EDIT: Mucho weirdness occurred during conversion. I ported our current forum database to a localhost server running on my pc. All simple. Now due to the age of our current package i cant convert direct to the current phpbb, having instead to go through an old version....except the converter TO that old version is labelling almost everything after "Cirno Day" as non existent....How intensely peculiar....I think she and I are gonna have to have words....
Double edit: Now this feels like the old days, sitting at a desk full of nerdy memorabilia, final fantasy remixes playing on headphones, working on something inexplicable. Me Gusta.
Triple Edit: Many problems occurred porting from phpbb2 to phpb3. Belive I have them tracked down now. Turns out huge blocks of continuous text in forum posts break the converter. so far ive found lengths of binary from old forum games, pi to way too many digits and an excessively long "NOOOOOOO"....
Forgotten what the word is for this one Edit: FOrum database is now converted to the current PHPBB build. I am now putting all the forums back into their levels and sub levels and reviewing permissions. Im gonna keep it all down until Ive got both that back online and the Main page (ie this that youre looking at now) upgraded too.
It's been over a decade since StarCraft was first released, and with its excellent story, sophisticated multiplayer, and interesting factions it changed the way Real-Time Strategies have been played since. Now at last, StarCraft II has been released, placing you in shoes of Jim Raynor, a revolutionary who is haunted by the many crimes of the Dominion.
The Campaign enables you to choose what to upgrade, what mercenaries to hire, what research to explore, and even what missions to take. (and in what order) Between missions you can explore the battlecruiser in a point-n-click interface to learn more about the world around you, the characters surrounding you, and maybe even find a few bonuses.
Because the story does not really focus on training the player for the intricacies of the competitive scene, they also offer Challenge mode. These include several missions which encourage awareness of some of the more important techniques as well as give you an opportunity to come back and beat your best score.
The multiplayer scene will force you through five placement matches in each league before it determines where you belong, but once placed you're likely to find a fair challenge that's not too brutal. Besides the standard leagues, you can form a party with a few of your friends and be placed in team-based ladders as a group. If you have cold feet, you can enter into an unranked co-op against some AI, or play a custom game which also offers you an opportunity to choose from the many creative possibilities of the galaxy editor.
Yeah, yeah, i know somethings wrong....Im working on it, and ill sort something out as soon as I can. In the meantime your call is very important to us and will be answered by the next available highly trained and selectively shaved chimp.
Video Game News: The Humble Indie Bundle, Aquaria goes Open-Source, Portal FREE until May 24th
Written by Jarrett Voight
Thursday, 13 May 2010 01:26
The Humble Indie Bundle includes Aquaria, World of Goo, Lugaru HD, Penumbra Overture, GISH, and also Samarost 2. It is being sold at the novel price of... whatever you're willing to donate to charity. Want to give the charity all eighty dollars which the bundle is worth? go right ahead. Want to give it a single buck and run off with the games? you can do that too! Each one of these games is excellent and there's quite a bit of variety, from an underwater epic, to a shooter, to a horror game, to a puzzler, and more. Be sure not miss out on the chance to own these games and feel generous at the same time.
On top of that, four of the games included in this bundle are becoming open-source. These are Aquaria, Lugaru HD, Penumbra Overture, and GISH. The Gaming Experience has reviewed Aquaria already and its already had some rather generous modding capabilities, but now you can take the engine and make whatever you want with it, releasing it for free under the GNU license.
Last but not least. You know what Portal is right? That game that won a ton of awards for its excellent physics puzzles and the use of the portal gun that gets a sequel in the near future (Valve time). And the full game (not the demo) costs like twenty bucks... thirty if you get it alongside Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2, and absolutely nothing if you get it between now and May 24th.
When life starts handing you gifts left and right, it would be very rude and incredibly bad karma not to accept them. Or to tell your friends, and tell them to tell their friends. Word of mouth is the oldest form of advertising, and it still works.
