Yesterday I took a couple of hours to chat with Andy Baio of Waxy.org about Forumwarz, and he’s just published the interview. It’s quite long and goes into huge amount of depth about Forumwarz, its development process, our team and everything else under the sun. It was the first time I’ve done an interview with someone who had actually completed the game, and I think it really shows through in the quality of the discussion. ...
A week ago, someone added an article to wikipedia about our game, and we were delighted because it was fairly detailed. We were sad to see though, that by morning it was deleted. Someone started a thread on our flamebate forums asking about it, and we bounced around various ideas for making a new article that wouldn’t be rejected. Then, this morning, out of left field, I was delighted to find out that the article had been brought back! Apparently one of our users is an admin on wikipedia, and brought it back and made the necessary changes to prevent it from being deleted again. It helps to have users in high places! ...
Yesterday, waxy.org, a.k.a Andy Baio called our game “supremely brilliant” in his link blog. Today, Wired’s Blog picked up the story from Waxy, and wrote up a fantastic article about us. Here’s an excerpt: Definitely not a site for the easily offended (in fact you have to type the sentence “I am not easily offended” to enter the site) or those with any sensitivity really, but pretty funny for the rest of us. At least until you head over to YouTube, read some comments and realize that the fictitious world of Forumwarz is all too parallel to the real web. ...
Today we were fortunate enough to be linked to on Metafilter, in the aptly titled entry “GTFO noob”. We also got an awesome mention on the IndieGames.com blog.
While I was generating some reports this afternoon, I noticed a bunch of people were visiting us from 711chan. 711chan, for those who aren’t aware, is one of the *chans, in other words the sites that run the same flavor of software and interface as 4chan but have slightly different rules. One of the popular forums on 711chan is /i/, or Insurgency. The idea is to organize “invasions” of other web sites, like Habbo Hotel. ...
We got a nice write in Digital Journal about Forumwarz. Here’s a snippet: Developed by Toronto-based Crotch Zombie Productions, this online game about online culture is a needle in a haystack of role-playing games about the same-old themes. But Forumwarz differentiates itself by mocking stereotypical comment hounds, giving a satirical twist to inserting quick phrases into threads. And a warning to anyone easily offended: This site is designed for a mature audience and it holds nothing back. ...
Forumwarz has been out of Beta for just over a week now, and we’ve had some terrific growth. We’ve tripled our user base, and daily activity is often 10 times what it was before. I was running a thread in our official forums with our site updates, but it was a little buried and difficult to keep on top of. The goal of this blog is to keep our players updated on new advances in Forumwarz, as well as discuss things related to Forumwarz on the web and our adventures in indie-game development. It will also replace that old and nasty thread. ...