Monday, August 6, 2007

Summer Work

Ok, my reason for not being so great on the posts in the last week is... summer homework stuff!

Basically, I have a chemistry packet due on the first day of school, so I've been working on that, leaving me with less time to make posts.

Also, I'm writing them right now so when I have a few done I'll get them out. Bear with me :)

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Trialga: Breakfast of Champions

... or something like that.

Anyway, I'm here today to talk about Trialga's story. It's been almost eight months since we first started up, and probably more than that since we began our plans for the game.

We've gone through a lot, lost some members and gained more, and recently we achieved 5,000 posts on our new forums. The new forums are doing well, and I am glad we started over... it's really helped.

Well, now for a story-

Trialga forums were started on December 8, 2006. We registered an Invisionfree forums and started our little project. We bought Realm Crafter and got to work. We had high hopes, and found that not much was getting done.

We had our ups and downs about staff, a teensy weensy security issue, blah blah blah.

We moved to a site that I bought (and of course still run), and put the forums on an IPB 2.2 board. We had a good time there, more or less. We hired a bunch of game staff at one point.

And then came the decision to stop production on the game, which pretty much had already happened. Not much was getting done at that time. Jeremy had become part of the team, and I decided to make new forums at one point, with him as a co-admin.

We made the new forums and after about a week of work unveiled them, warning that the old ones would soon be closed. Sure enough, we shut them down and redirected them to the new ones after a little while.

A month or two later and here we are today. I think we've done a great job, and that we're here to stay for a long while. I enjoy running the site and the forums, as well as expanding them.

We've added a few new forums from interest shown in particular things, as well as suggestions. We have a great team, and are always expanding.

We also have something coming up soon that I've been programming that I think you guys will enjoy, so keep your eyes open and keep producing your stories and artwork if you catch my drift (and if you don't, that's ok because it's probably hard to think of what the heck I'm talking about, but it'll be good).

Again, great job everyone... let's keep it up!