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Today we’ve added scullyangel to our moderator team. I think having a woman on our team will ensure that Flamebate remains the most intelligent and respectful forum on the Internet for many years to come.

Fan Service! For those who have finished Episode 2, we have partnered together with Celerysteve to build you a new mission that parodies one of our infamous forum members. The quest is only available for a limited time, so be sure it check it out sooner rather than later. You can access it on top of your character’s page. New Epeen(tm)! We’ve also added some new E-Peen(tm) to the game: I’ll BINGE to that ...

A bunch of people showed interest in the conversation editor I showed off in the screenshots of our admin section. I decided to record a screencast that shows off how the tool works. It’s un-rehearsed and rough around the edges but it’ll give you an idea of how we write the conversations that you play out in sTalk. View the Screencast

I wrote up this article for Building Browsergames, a cool site for people who are interested in building games like Forumwarz. I’m cross-posting it here. For most retail computer and video games, once your game gets shipped into stores, the job is done. Sure, there may be bug fixes or future downloadable content, but those require a skeleton staff and minuscule budgets compared to the development of the initial game. On a browser game, the process is a bit different. Since there is no physical product shipping out in flashy boxes, you can deliver new content with virtually no deployment costs. However, in this sense, it means the job is never quite done. It becomes a constant effort to continuously improve the product. It also becomes trickier to try to sell it. ...

There’s a short interview with me up on Building Browsergames. I think it’s a promising site that’s geared towards helping out develoepers who are interested in building their own games like Forumwarz. (I’ve also agreed to do a Forumwarz “Post-Mortem” for them. It should be live shortly and I’ll probably cross-post/link it on this blog too.)

While it’s not as obvious when you’re going through quests and having fun playing, underneath the scenes, Forumwarz is just a database. Every forum, attack, conversation and cinematic is represented in the database somewhere so we can keep track of it and modify it as we need. In order to maintain all this data, we have quite a large admin section. Only a handful of people have access to it, so it’s not the prettiest thing in the world, but it’s functional and allows us to build new content and episodes. ...

So Kyoubai has been quite the success! Since it launched just over two weeks ago, we’ve hosted over 40,000 auctions with 150,000 bids. At any given time, there seems to be over 1,000 auctions to peruse for stuff like rare .moar files. Thanks to all our users who offered input and helped us tweak the system so that it’s easier to use and less prone to exploits. Up Next: ItemBuildr ...

Greetings, The wait is over and with the Domination round starting Wednesday January 28th a slew of changes will be implemented to improve Domination and provide better balance for all players. The major changes drastically affect Klan Raiding so if that’s your thing, please review the flamebate post for all the details! We will be monitoring the effects of the changes closely, so please TubMail BINGEBOT 2015 if there are any issues. We want to ensure that the changes work for the majority of players and enhance the game. ...

We’re delighted to announce that Kyoubai, the official Forumwarz auction house, is live! To celebrate its birth, we’ve seeded it with two special auctions. Note that for the following links to work, you must have a bookmark to Kyoubai. The quest begins around level 5. All players who meet the criteria for Kyoubai should have a tubmail that opens up system. Wireless Headset - Currently the most powerful item in the game. ...

In our upcoming auction house Kyoubai, we had to limit players who had purchased cheats from the fun of selling and buying items, since that could drastically upset the economy. This brought up a fairly frequent request to allow players to convert accounts that had cheated into ones that hadn’t. Today I decided to finally get around to implementing it. You can now convert your cheating account into a regular one, providing you are cool with losing all your flezz and items. It costs 1 Brownie Point, and is available under the Support Us! tab. ...