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- February 18, 2007
Tales of the
Black Admiral has been updated with its second
installment, The
Best of Times Call for Desperate Measures.
- February 2, 2007
Black Admiral is moving along. While there's no huge
news to report, there's new content regularly reported
on the Updates page. The
fiction section has its
first serious series, a historical yarn called the
Tales of the Black
Admiral. The
forums
have been migrated to
Simple Machines
software, which is a lot nicer to use and has a lot more
features than the old software.
- November 4, 2006
We're going to try adding a comments link to each
page to help facilitate easy feedback. We're using a
relatively simple and very free comment system from php_noob.
At least for the moment, we're going to structure it
so that it groups comments from various areas... all
the main pages will receive a single set of comments,
the races section will receive comments as a whole,
the technology and starship sections will each get one
"thread", and so on. Feel free to comment.
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October 30, 2006
Still lots going on behind the scenes... Plans are
solidifying to develop a first person action/RPG
shooter, both as a test bed for developing
MMOG assets
and to sharpen our skills with the
Torque engine. We
mentioned the Torque engine, right?? Could it be true
that a certain team member even got accepted as a beta
tester for
Torque X?? And we're still working feverishly
expanding the canon and improving the website.
- October 15, 2006
Finally, finally we've gotten around to moving the
forums on our own site. Or perhaps re-establishing the
forums is a better term... those 3rd party forum hosts
really suck when it comes to things like providing
backups, so all the old messages and memberships are
lost. Growing pains...
- September 3, 2006
We've chosen to move the setting of the MMOG. The
current setting is just too... clean... political...
Big empires and corporations, flashy technology and civilized
nations just aren't as much fun as isolation and
danger and an outright fight to survive. The webpage
will undergo some revision and the MMOG section will
begin to reflect the new setting soon. We've moved to
the fringes of the galaxy where it's dirty and mean...
we hope you'll like it there as
much as we do.
- August 15, 2006
Busy, busy time for Black Admiral. We're
considering adopting Torque as our engine of choice.
It's a little more difficult to work with than some of
the more packaged MMOG development environments but
the flexibility it gives may allow us to spin off a
single-player game or two along the development
path.
- August 8, 2006
GHO-Trader
is now version 1.0! The first game in the Black
Admiral universe is now live!
- June 11, 2006
We're talking with an independent game developer who's
interested in using Black Admiral as a backdrop for a
php-based multiplayer space trading game. Looks like
quite a cool project with a lot of content generated
on-the-fly. Anyone interested in more details or in
contributing artwork can contact
us or post on the forums.
- We're looking at a couple of options
to improve communications. We're looking at options
for moving the forums to our site host and exploring
which BB system to use. We're also looking at setting
up a canon wiki so people can play with developing
ideas before they're actually posted to the Canon
section of the website.
- June 2: Updates to the website
may slow down for a bit. We're focusing on the MMOG:
-- Mechanics: developing the combat, crafting, and
skills systems
-- Mechanics: putting some numbers to weapons and
armour
-- Art: we're starting to build models for weapons and
buildings
--The World: we're doing development and layout for
Stonetown
- As of May 9, 2006 we're
officially hosted by Bluehost.com.
So far the transition has been flawless, service
friendly, and we ended up with a free domain name to
boot. The www.aardware.com
address will work for at least a couple of months but
you should switch over to www.blackadmiral.com
right away. We're still converting from the old
eye-numbing black-on-red colour scheme of the old
site.
- Working away on structure and
background for a couple of story series, Koherandu and
Tales of the Black Admiral. Also frantically filling
in canon detail where I can. For the moment, official
development is focused on the canon and MMOG so our
personal writing is a tad stalled at the moment. Don't
wait for us... get involved and help make this baby
fly!
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