garron
Pawn Magister
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19% to the next rank
"I made this!"
Kevin Mitnick
machete
Game #4180, Play #43 by
garron
Phiber Optik
Yuri Gagarin
Rapunzel
Abraham Maslow
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New Features
There's a new client up. I'm not fond of the new site feature, which is win/loss records on your opponents' profile page. Mainly because I'm trailing rcall so badly.
This release is mainly in preparation for our Facebook launch. I'm really excited about the launch, not least of all because it will put us within easy reach of so many players. This will solve so many problems that we currently have, including better communication between players with calendars and messaging, inviting friends to play, and so on. Great plays will show up on players' Facebook feeds, which will create automatic interest for those on their friends list. Players will also have their profile photos show up right in the game client, making the whole experience a bit more friendly.
We're calling the Facebook launch a "beta" release mainly because we don't yet have the infrastructure to support an enormous influx of players. If that happens, we'll obviously regroup long enough to solve the problem. But until we have a feel for the kind of attention we'll get, we're playing it safe with the "beta" excuse. :-)
Saturday, 25 October 2008 at 10:58pm— garron
What's Going On?
Many of you know that GBN was created by three people in evening hours, and that two of those (the developer two) took new full-time jobs in recent months. But in spite of appearances, a lot is going on. We continue our slow crawl towards funding, for one. For two, we'll have a new game client up soon with several enhancements. And for three (and most importantly), we're working right now on porting the project to the Facebook platform.
Why are we doing such a thing? Well, it doesn't make sense for us to run our own little social network here on the site. Sure, we'll continue to support it as is. But Facebook integration will give us a means of rapid growth of our player base. Things will work basically the same as they do now, only you'll be able to access the game (and play it) more simply from Facebook.
More soon!
Wednesday, 24 September 2008 at 6:30pm— garron
Next Mind the Gap
The new Mind the Gap puzzle will be posted Monday.
Thursday, 7 August 2008 at 7:35am— garron
Upcoming Stuff
We've been working lately to prepare for an influx. In the next few weeks we'll be starting our first actual advertising, and we anticipate a big response. Some of you remember (or first arrived here) as the result of a mailing on behalf of a friend of ours. That was small compared to this campaign, and it resulted in some problems on our end. So we've implemented a new caching solution to enhance performance of the site, and there are a few new client features we're rushing to finish. These include being able to skip a player in your game when that player misses a turn.
We'll be announcing the next tournament early next week as part of this campaign. Also, the next Mind the Gap won't go up until that time.
Thursday, 12 June 2008 at 12:13pm— garron
Game #4370
"Weak Streak Breaker"
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"Hot, Hot Winners"
Game #4320
"I *heart* Adjectives"
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"Ferrari and Lillian Gish: Far Too Pretty"
Game #4242
"The French and American Outdoors"
Game #4222
"What's That, Girl? Timmy is Lost on an Island?"
Game #4220
"Kevin Mitnick and the Fall of Civilization"
Game #4214
"Low Brow Art"
Game #4213
""People like blood sausage. People are morons!""
Game #4181
"Jail to the Rescue!"