Slides from last night's presentation

Here are the slides from our presentation at TSOT last night. We unfortunately had some technical difficulties and that meant a lot of the jokes in the beginning were completely messed up :( The topic was RJS and Forumwarz: A Love Hate Affair. We spend a little time introducing the game, then we talk about some of the issues we encountered having an interface heavy in RJS during periods of concurrency. ...

March 12, 2008 · 1 min · eviltrout

Site Updates - Mar 10

Changes We’ve decided to retire the “Worst Gamblers” leaderboard and E-Peen(tm). Unfortunately it was very expensive for our server to calculate. It was brought to my attention that the Nexus Warriors were in fact the first people to perform a vanilla raid in Forumwarz Domination. Since the Sisterhood of the Quivering Rose klan did it on such an impressive scale (twice!) I decided to award both Klans the E-Peen(tm) and change the description slightly. ...

March 10, 2008 · 1 min · eviltrout

Reminder - You can meet Crotch Zombie Tomorrow!

Just a reminder to anyone who’s in Toronto and is interested in the technical aspects of Forumwarz, we’re presenting at TSOT project night tomorrow night. At least three members of Crotch Zombie will be on hand to answer questions and stuff. Then afterwards we can grab a beer at a local bar. Hope to see some of you tomorrow!

March 10, 2008 · 1 min · eviltrout

Site Updates - Mar 9

ForumBuildr Updates You can choose to pass on submissions you don’t feel strongly about either way. Players now have a ForumBuildr score, that will change based on the quality of their submissions. Everyone starts at 0. You are now limited in how many submissions you can make in a week. A higher buildr score increases this. Smaller Things Vitals now always show up on your profile, even if it’s disabled. ...

March 10, 2008 · 1 min · eviltrout

Happy Birthday, Evil Trout!

It’s Evil Trout’s birthday! Let’s all wish Evil Trout a happy birthday! Happy birthday! …Evil Trout! Yeah!

March 8, 2008 · 1 min · eviltrout

Forumwarz Contest: Post Your Crotch Zombification Vids!

We have a new contest for the month of March. We want people to post original videos of themselves, delivering a “crotch zombie” to a victim — willing or otherwise! What’s a crotch zombie? It’s when you put your hands over your crotch and start slowly walking towards your mark, impressing your groin upon them while moaning and assuming the vacant stare of the walking undead. It’s…it’s actually quite immature and stupid. And it’s the name of our parent company. Go figs! ...

March 6, 2008 · 1 min · eviltrout

Site Updates - Mar 5

New Stuff We now list active threads on the flamebate main page. Domination Archive page now has a drop down of teams. There was way too many to go through otherwise. Bug Fixes We shouldn’t end up with a super-sized medal team in domination again. I know I promised it last week, but I mean it this time! :) If you try to deploy the XSS attack in a forum where you can’t, you will no longer be charged a forum visit incorrectly. ...

March 6, 2008 · 1 min · eviltrout

Site Updates - Mar 4

New Stuff Klan Forums - Each Klan now has a private flamebate forum for their own secret discussions! We’ve expanded Flamebate into many more categories. We’ve also added tons of new topics, so feel free to get new discussions started guys. We want to keep this awesome community going :) There’s been a large effort to make the game more accessible to players using screen readers. A lot of the images that weren’t properly tagged now are. ...

March 5, 2008 · 1 min · eviltrout

Trademark Trolls Should Mind Their Pwn Business

This morning I found out that Futuremark, a Finnish company famous for their software benchmarking products, have requested a trademark for the word Pwnage. Seriously. The word Pwnage. A word that pulls 2 million results on Google, and the same one that we happen to make heavy use of in Forumwarz. (In the introduction for our game, we come up with our own mythology of the term, calling it the recently discovered fifth force of physics: “A force so strong that, when harnessed properly, can destroy a web forum from the inside out.”) ...

March 3, 2008 · 3 min · eviltrout

YouBoob Launched!

We just launched YouBoob, the latest community built forum in the world of Forumwarz. Some contributions shocked me by getting hundreds of votes each, and I think the end product is quite lolsworthy. Also, check out the awesome logo from Xoey: Xoey did a great job mixing the mythology of Forumwarz into the parody of an existing site :) Our new Build has been selected. We’re doing: Fathers Against Pornography ...

March 3, 2008 · 1 min · eviltrout