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- 21:03, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+7,349) . . N Elder Game: On Fire, and Wolf-Talk, and Competitive Systems (Created page with "The pre-alpha testers’ comments and feedback have been extremely enlightening, and I really appreciate each of you who took the time to give me feedback, especially the play...")
- 21:02, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+7,290) . . N Elder Game: What It Means to Be Undead (Created page with "Still working hard on the MMO, but not much new to show yet. Soon! In the meantime, let’s talk a bit about the back story of the game. “Oh No, It’s the Undead!” Earl...")
- 21:00, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+1,451) . . m Developers (→2012)
- 20:52, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+1,000) . . N Elder Game: Facebook me! (Created page with "Can you take a second to like Project Gorgon on Facebook? I just need a few more likers to get a non-hideous URL! https://www.facebook.com/pages/Project-Gorgon/29242490414419...")
- 20:51, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+8,227) . . N Elder Game: A little more about evil, undead, and pet classes (Created page with "[Preview testers: there is a new version of the game up! However, the forums are still down. Please send any feedback or bugs to [email protected]!] What Is Evil? I...")
- 20:49, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+8,192) . . N Elder Game: Battle Chemistry (Created page with "Whoa, not getting enough blogging done! Lots of stuff is happening, let me try to catch up. Here’s a new combat skill: Battle Chemistry. Advanced Combat Skills Some combat...")
- 20:47, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+4,832) . . N Elder Game: Progress Update (Created page with "Just some notes about things… there’s lots of things happening, but I’m totally overwhelmed and failing to blog about them. Let’s see: Title and Logo! For now (and q...")
- 20:46, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+10,167) . . N Elder Game: Optional Ways to Play (Created page with "I want to support optional ways to play the MMO. I think these add a lot of depth and replay value, and for little effort on my part. Here’s what I have in mind at the momen...")
- 20:45, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+2,482) . . N Elder Game: Today in pictures (Created page with "Working on some new content today – a new newbie town. I’ve got some new NPC tech that’s making it a lot of fun to work on. Here’s some screenshots: Milking a cow NPC...")
- 20:44, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+4,486) . . N Elder Game: Gorgon Kickstarter is Coming! (Created page with "Why Kickstarter? The scene is my home office, about a month ago. Sandra is acting as producer for the MMO, looking over the schedule. : - Sandra: “So you’re behind sched...")
- 20:42, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+4,440) . . N Elder Game: Crazier Kickstarter Reward Ideas (Created page with "Thanks again for the feedback on Kickstarter! I’m definitely going to use some of the easier suggestions, such as getting your name in the credits, a unique appearance item,...")
- 20:41, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+9,251) . . N Elder Game: The Case Against Auction Houses (Created page with "I don’t have anything against auctions. But in an MMO, an Auction House is shorthand for “everybody sells everything for the lowest price the market will bear.” This is...")
- 20:40, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+8,674) . . N Elder Game: How does Project Gorgon make money? (Created page with "I didn’t start making an MMO because I thought it was a good business idea. I did it because I want to run an MMO. I love maintaining a world, tuning it, watching it grow. I...")
- 20:38, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+2,126) . . N Elder Game: The dangers of a too-statistics-driven treasure generator (Created page with "[ Just an anecdote today, as I'm still working on the Kickstarter preparations. I've got Sandra heavily involved now, and she's helping slog through a bunch of remaining tasks...")
- 20:37, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+160) . . N Elder Game: Kickstarter is Live! (Created page with "We’re kickstartin’! Please pledge if you can. We tried to make the rewards as fun as possible. Thanks! Category:Game BlogsCategory:Elder Game Blog")
- 20:37, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+359) . . N Elder Game: Video Diary (Created page with "Here’s a new video! Thrill to the minutia of treasure-item presentation! (Wow, that makes it sound awesome.) Sorry about the audio volume mixing, gotta turn the volume up t...")
- 20:36, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+1,087) . . N Elder Game: Please TwitFace Project: Gorgon! (Created page with "After Eric posted about KickAssist (which I keep reading as kickass-ist, which is presumably some sort of really cool profession), tad commented: ''I would also suggest you a...")
- 20:36, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+1,857) . . N Elder Game: Opening Pre-Alpha to Kickstarter pledges! (Created page with "We’ve been hard at work robustifying the pre-alpha servers, and we’re finally ready to let people check it out! We’re sending out keys to Kickstarter pledges now. There...")
- 20:34, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+841) . . N Elder Game: Community-esque things (Created page with "It’s been almost decade since I was a dev on a Stratics forum, but that’s changed: today Stratics set us up with a forum for Project: Gorgon! Feel free to visit and say hi...")
- 20:33, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+371) . . N Elder Game: Quote of the Day: Humanities (Created page with "(04:05:31) Eric Heimburg: Hmm. I need to think about the skill system more and figure out how to divvy up content across all the humanities. <in the other room, Sandra bursts...")
- 20:32, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+1,472) . . N Elder Game: Pre-Alpha’s Getting Better (every day) (Created page with "Things are looking a bit grim for the Kickstarter… that’s a big number to earn and only a few more days. But we’re doing all we can on that front — and it takes a lot...")
- 20:31, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+1,714) . . m Developers (→2012)
- 20:07, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+3,828) . . N Elder Game: Designing Project: Gorgon’s combat sounds (Created page with "[ This guest post is by Conor Brace, the sound/music expert for Project: Gorgon. Thanks, Conor! ] Designing Project: Gorgon’s combat sounds When Eric and I started discussi...")
- 20:07, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+8,221) . . N Elder Game: Pre-Alpha Update: Tech notes, update notes, ramblings (Created page with "Tech: Holding Up Well! The pre-alpha is going well. We’re averaging about 3 people online at a time, which doesn’t sound like a lot, but given that it’s a limited-acces...")
- 20:06, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+3,310) . . N Elder Game: Kickstarter: The Missing FAQ (Created page with "(Figured I’d write this up while it was still fresh in my head…) If you’re doing a Kickstarter project, you’re going to run into weird issues, and none of them are go...")
- 20:05, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+5,544) . . N Elder Game: Gorgon Chat Logs, pt 1 (Created page with "[You would not believe how much I've been sleeping this week. I'm still officially on vacation until next week, when I have to catch up on all the stuff that's been delayed a...")
- 20:04, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+5,671) . . N Elder Game: Gorgon Chat Logs, pt 2, and Status Update (Created page with "Player 1> is there any way to link items in chat? Player 2> not yet... and i dont know if the unity engine is able to do that It surprised me how often this idea came up —...")
- 20:03, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+2,973) . . N Elder Game: Prealpha 3′s Death Penalties (Created page with "As I mentioned earlier, I want to experiment with variable death penalties, where players can choose how punitive they want it to be. This lets players who want a “scarier...")
- 20:02, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+3,935) . . N Elder Game: Death Penalties, Quick Follow-up (Created page with "Thanks for all the death-penalty feedback from the last post! I’ve decided to heed a couple of suggestions: : -I’m removing the XP rewards, so now there’s no tangible b...")
- 20:02, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+10,645) . . N Elder Game: Taunting, Mentalism, and Variety (Created page with "Still working on what I’ve been working on… lots of stumbling blocks this week that made me glad I’m bald so I don’t pull out my hair in frustration. But these things...")
- 20:01, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+5,465) . . N Elder Game: AC2 First Impressions (Created page with "I spent a fair number of hours in the beta of Asheron’s Call 2 tonight, and here are my initial thoughts (both good and bad): : -The world graphics have held up very well....")
- 19:59, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+755) . . m Developers (→2012)
- 19:53, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+2,782) . . N Elder Game: Twitter Updates (Created page with "Twitter Account: I’ve started tweeting each day about the development process on twitter @GorgonMMO. Mostly I post minutia and useless factoids, but if you’re reading Twit...")
- 19:53, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+5,347) . . N Elder Game: Toward more interesting deaths (Created page with "New Penalties I’m still mulling the death penalty in Project Gorgon. I’m happy with where we left the Hardcore Penalty discussed earlier, but I’m not happy with the nor...")
- 19:52, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+2,675) . . N Elder Game: Addendum: Matt’s Idea (Created page with "On the last blog post, commenter Matt proposed a fairly clever hybrid solution to the death-loot problem that should work well. It uses the “invisible bag” plan, with a cl...")
- 19:52, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+7,330) . . N Elder Game: Progress Toward Pre-Alpha 3 (Created page with "Artwork Inbound Just a quick update about where things are at. The Legends of Etherell guys are cranking out awesome character artwork for Project: Gorgon. As I mentioned a w...")
- 19:50, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+4,640) . . N Elder Game: Milk, Vaults & Ulfoi (Created page with "Player-to-Player Interactions I’ve been cruising along with infrastructure features, hoping to get a fair number of them in place so that the LoE team can reuse my server t...")
- 19:49, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+190) . . N Elder Game: Quote of the Day: WTF (Created page with "Eric: The server is e-mailing me the message “WTF”. Sandra: Ahh … I presume you programmed it to do that? Eric: I presume so too. Category:Game BlogsCategory:El...")
- 19:48, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+9,774) . . N Elder Game: Vendors! (Created page with "There’s a million ways that vendors could work. After days of playing around with them, I feel like I’ve tried all million permutations. I am well and truly sick of thinki...")
- 19:43, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+4,156) . . N Elder Game: More Stuff Happening (Created page with "Fire Magic Spells! It turns out that almost all the spells in the Fire Magic school were broken in pre-alpha 2. (For instance, the spell that makes monsters take extra fire d...")
- 19:43, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+4,315) . . N Elder Game: Loot progress (Created page with "I’m not dead! Just … didn’t really have much to talk about for a bit there. I’m months behind my target date for pre-alpha 3, but I’m now at the point where I could...")
- 19:42, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+739) . . N Elder Game: Quote of the Day: A Cavalcade of Nightmares (Created page with "Eric, as he works on integrating the new character art: “Where’s his head? Oh, down there.” 15 minutes later: “Now his face is gone.” 30 minutes later: “Oh God,...")
- 19:42, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+191) . . N Elder Game: ETA (Created page with "Some unexpected delays! I estimate the servers will be online at 8pm Eastern time (about 2.5 hours from now). If you were waiting, sorry! Category:Game BlogsCategory:E...")
- 19:41, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+895) . . N Elder Game: Pre-Alpha 3 server is live! (Created page with "The server is finally live! Visit projectgorgon.com to log in. Your old characters should still work, if you had any, but I haven’t tested that very well so if you have prob...")
- 19:41, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+6,393) . . N Elder Game: 4:30am Update (Created page with "As I write this it’s 4:30am, that unpleasant time of night when you can’t predict whether the Burger King drive through is going to sell you a Whopper Meal or a Croissanwi...")
- 19:40, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+1,151) . . m Developers (→2013)
- 19:31, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+7,691) . . N Elder Game: Grab Bag Update: Web Player, Skill Swapping, Languages (Adding Elder Game blog posts)
- 19:27, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+2,413) . . N Elder Game: The flying animal fiasco (Created page with "Thought I’d do a short post about an amusing bug. It’s actually been happening occasionally for a while, but after a recent update it became pretty much 100% of the time:...")
- 19:27, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+8,329) . . N Elder Game: What is Lag? (Created page with "I get a few reports of “lag”, and while I really appreciate the reports, just hearing about lag by itself isn’t enough to diagnose a problem, because there’s a lot of...")
- 19:26, 26 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+1,701) . . N Elder Game: Try the new stand-alone clients (Created page with "We now have stand-alone game clients ready for testing! These should give you better frame-rates in general. If you’re up for testing, please give them a whirl: Windows: D...")
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