12 is ‘grbum on the field’. BTW, viewing all my forumbuildr votes at once is amazin’. Thank you.

If you’re gonna do color/animal, are you legally prevented from naming them after Legends of the Hidden Temple teams?

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New update is pretty keen.

PUBICDAWG Posted:

Is the whole design of the welcome page randomized between multiple versions? If so, for me at least, it seems to be stuck on the Camwhore version. If this isn’t a bug and the page design isn’t randomly selected, I think having the Camwhore version be the only version might put off people who see it.

Edit: Also, are you still planning to implement that ‘Buy Brownie Points for large amounts of Flezz’ feature? Or the text adventure design tool?

There are two major versions of the homepage now, the camwhore one and the “cartoon” one, and then several minor versions of each where we’re testing different layouts. Once it selects one of the versions for you, it sets a cookie so you keep seeing it (we figured it would be too confusing if it kept changing on you), that’s why you’re always seeing the same one. A new user without the same cookie would get a random layout.

I hope the camwhore one wouldn’t put anyone off, but that’s why we’re testing Log in to see images! Once we have some good stats as to what layouts are working better we’ll ditch the ones that aren’t.

Regarding buying brownie points: I still want to do it but every time I bring it up at the meetings we decide there’s something else worth doing first. It’s still on the table though, definitely!

The text adventure game creator, to manage expectations, was never supposed to be a big thing like Forumbuildr. If we release the code to it, it would just be a ruby text adventure game developer kit people could run on their own computers, and then maybe we’d have a contest where we’d integrate some of the best games into the site. It would be fun, for sure, but on the other hand we really have to get rolling full time on Episode 2! (so far, it’s been slow as a back seat to other features) You wouldn’t believe the awesomeness we have in mind for our second episode.

n00b65 Posted:

Not sure what else you have on the burners, but getting Ep. 2 into production would, I think, be key towards publicizing the game. Domination is fun for those of us who take it seriously, but I’m not sure that it’s for everyone; it’s a different beast than playing Ep. 1. My concern is that most people pulled in from the recruiting drive won’t spread word of the game after they beat Ep. 1, if Ep. 2 is still a ways off in the future. So my vote is put Ep. 2 next on the list. If I get a vote.

Episode 2 is already in production, it’s just been coming slowly because we wanted to get ForumBuildr and Domination in place as extra games to keep people busy. Now that they’re basically working it’s our plan to take on Ep2 face on. It should come together very fast once we get moving, don’t worry Log in to see images!

Neat.

So will you increase the level max with the release of episode 2?

Or will you reset our stats somehow like Jick (What a jerk.)

Evil Trout Posted:

The level max will be increasing, yup. Right now the plan is for another 10 levels of growth in episode 2, that’s what we’ve been creating the content for so far.

How are you going to do the experience for the 11th level and the such. Some people have over a million cred points, are they going to jump to 15th level or something, or are you going to re-set cred to a certain amount?

Paraone Posted:

How are you going to do the experience for the 11th level and the such. Some people have over a million cred points, are they going to jump to 15th level or something, or are you going to re-set cred to a certain amount?

Haven’t decided 100% yet, but what I think makes the most sense is that they’ll level up really easily in the beginning. I mean, they put in the work, it’s only fair.

Here’s a suggestion: when Episode 2 comes out, note the highest level that people instantly jump to and give a special E-Peen to everyone who jumped to that level.

I wonder how realistic it would be for someone to jump straight to Level 20.

What are the details on the instant kill ability? Does it have cool down?