The last six months have been the least active BioFox has ever seen. I attribute this to a few things; college application, senior work loads, jobs, ect. Whatever the reason, we need to get it together push through at least one more game before the end of the year. Revenge 2 is that project, the perfect way to get back into the groove of things by revisiting our classic game.
To make our transition clear, I'll post what we need to do:
-Clean up the site, including the World Order pages and the game status
-Take Neal off the staff list, since he hasn't had any real contributions
-Post our plans for the new game and our future
-Renew our domain and hosting space (donations will be needed)
-Start working on Revenge 2
Just as a note, our current budget is 25.95 (including cash and project wonderful funds). That's a 8.09 profit over six months or about 1.35 dollars a month.
Yes, World Order was a project that was way over our heads. I agree with your list of things to do as well.
Let's bring BioFox back!
Also, I updated the FAQ.
I can get on the website work 9 days from now (weekend after midyears). Please though -- clarify what you mean by site cleanup? Is this removing all pages associated with world order?
My opinion is that we should leave them around (maybe move them to a sub-tab in the navigation labeled 'Defunct projects'. Why?
1) search engines know 'em
2) They've been linked from elsewhere (DarkBasic forums)
3) Its easier to just put a big 'This project is no longer under development' warning than to make sure everything is cleaned away
4) You might choose to pick it up again later (yeah, yeah, I know... But it might turn out that you do want to finish 1 big RTS)
Add to things to do:
-MyBB (forums): upgrade to latest (this version has a security vuln in moderation tools...), clean up crap, get images properly working, finish theming by adding own images
-Near future: finish writing news poster/editor (much of this will also go to the CMS, which is farther future..)
-Far future: write own damn forum software. Everything around for free is pretty much crap
-Farther future: write useful CMS, so you can manage the site text on your own and only need me for groundwork changes
-Visitor tracker 2.0 (1.0?), new version...
Yes, by cleanup I meant removal of World Order pages and it's 30% status; sorry about not being clear with that. My thinking was that we need a nice clean start, and while yes this was our most completed dropped project, we haven't kept any other dropped projects. It's pretty pointless to have pages for something we aren't working on (and probably will never finish). This could confuse people. By all means we should keep the actual code, but links on the site to World Order clutter up the interface. But let's hear what other people have to say about it.
All great additions, although personally I'd like to see the new visitor tracker before a new forums. Or maybe I'm reading it wrong and that's not the farthest thing from the present?
Remove World Order from the site like we have removed Residential Horror and others.
By the way, I'll need 20 dollars from both Tarkus and Dajon so we can renew the domain and hosting for another year (i'm also pitching in 20 plus the 1.50 extra or something like that).
EDIT
Also, I talked with Justin and he's on board with Revenge 2. Just as soon as we have work for him to do, he'll do it.
PAAATY IN DA HOUSE!!!
I'll bring in $20 to school tomorrow.
Dajon and Tarkus, remember to bring 20 dollars tomorrow =D
Also, I think I fixed the template for the forums. Does anyone else see the biofox theme?
I loaded the forums up. Then my brain crashed.
Nice job with the fixing!
Ok, I looked in the admin panel. How'd you do it?