Incit

I’ve been doing some work behind the scenes to create an API for INCIT, so that we can make clients on other platforms (right now we’re working on an iPhone version with one of our users.) Thanks to Rails, creating the API is taking very little time. I was curious whether anyone else would be interested in APIs for other aspects of Forumwarz? Nothing comes to mind right now, but if you’re a programmer and want access to our public data somehow, send me a tubmail or email with your idea and I’ll see what I can do. ...

I listened to your feedback about our embedded IDC client and made a bunch of fixes: I changed the color to look more like the rest of the site. You can see how many people are online, and click to get a pop up of all members in the channel. Resizing is less buggy. INCIT chat has been changed to the same interface, finally we can see who is online during an INCIT round! ...

New Stuff There are now Forumwarz Community ads in IDC and INCIT. As always they can be disabled by purchasing No Ads. They’re currently set to show up every 5 minutes, but if chat isn’t very busy it’ll wait longer to avoid filling up the whole window with ads. Lots of INCIT new stuff! Players’ top INCIT wins are now visible on their profile. You can also click a link to view them all for a particular character. Check out wins for our current INCIT champion, Orb. He’s won over 100 rounds! ...

We’d taken down the INCIT test for a little while due to performance reasons. It’s back up now and we’re gathering a lot more data on how it performs. Check it out and help us make it a better product!

We’ve just launched The Hall of Shit, the INCIT winners gallery. Since we launched INCIT in test form a few days ago, we’ve created well over 800 posters so far. Browse the gallery, vote on your favorites, and feel free to send the funniest ones to your friends. Unlike much of Forumwarz, the gallery is reachable by people without accounts! Here are some of my favorites: Oh God, California Girls, Holy Jesus! and Larping. ...

Small updates, today is my “Day Off” The INCIT test now works in IE7 and no longer prompts you to download a file. Velveteen and FAIL won our most recent contest to come up with a new persona for “The Other Other Hole.” They both got an exclusive E-Peen(tm) for it too: The Artist. For those who are asking: A gallery of recent INCIT winners is coming very soon, it’s already in the works and all winning posters have been recorded. ...

Introducing INCIT Tonight the big news is we’ve launched a test version of our new mini-game called INCIT. The idea behind the game is pretty simple: you compete with others to create motivational posters in a given theme. Rounds currently last 10 minutes, broken up into Submitting, Voting and Results. In the submitting stage you are given a theme, for example “as an Emo Kid” and a photograph that our mods and admins have painstakingly imported from Flickr. It is then up to you to come up with a creative title and sub-title for the image. ...