It’s alive!
Filed under Design Diary on January 17, 2008
Keywords: Eternal Warlords
We are now officially 3 weeks from an alpha release of Eternal Warlords: Arena. Chris (Wan Gai’s secret identity) finally triumphed over our rebellious Suse Linux Enterprise server this weekend. We hooked it up in the colo data center yesterday–and had a brief moment of panic when we couldn’t ping the gateway before we realized we had connected the cable to the wrong NIC port–then met with the development studio and confirmed they could access it remotely. I spent the rest of the afternoon with our web developer (welcome back, Aaron) discussing details about the game portal site.
My tasks over the next three weeks will be to point the appropriate domain names to the server, set up a merchant account and processing service for billing, and manage any issues that come up. At the end of the three weeks, I’ll be sending out invites to a pre-selected group of testers. We’re planning a public beta in March.
Next week’s posts will feature some gameplay details and screenshots. That reminds me, I need to put together some banners and purchase some ad space for late February/early March on the websites I’ve identified as good markets.
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January 17th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Whoohoo, go Kam! I understood absolutely none of what you said in that first paragraph, but I can imagine it’s been a stressful time. Looking forward to the game info.
Jaleigh
January 17th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Hee hee. Same here! Is there a Babelfish translator I can run that through??
January 17th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Nice.
Yeah, those rogue NIC ports can be a pain!
January 17th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Huzzah! Pass the cigar, your baby is born!
January 18th, 2008 at 6:30 am
Excellent! I’m really glad to hear things are moving right along. It’s been an interesting process to hear about.