Secondly our development strategy has been completely revised, moving from an open design community to the standard closed development team. Unfortunately this also means a change to our company aims and ethos but it is an insurmountable legal hurdle. The about pages will be changed later on today. Along with this change in team setting is a change in development media. Instead of using an open wiki like originally intended the focus of development has moved to the forum medium for communication and directly using our server for storage of files.

We are still looking for dev team members however, people skilled with art especially and perhaps another couple of people skilled with words. Please check the Positions board on the forums.

So, what’s happening now you ask? We are currently transferring all our information from our personal development space to the new open wiki for everyone to see. We’ll be opening up applications for volunteer developers very soon. Email kceltyr@bluefireforge.com for an application form. We have spaces for content moderators, idiot moderators, artists and wiki knowledgeable people. Currently all positions are volunteer (hey, we ain’t earning anything off this either) with a possibility of something more a lot further down the track.

That’s about all I have for now. I promise to keep this updated a little more often.

The game is told from the point of view of the Humans, recent new comers to the galaxy, but the game is in no way orientated to only serve them. Telling narrative and detail from the point of view of Humans makes it easier for player understanding and whilst it may not follow some of the more hardcore games, it leaves the game open to a much wider audience. The Salaryians and Farunee` are mysterious and very different from each other and the Humans; one a race of primitive yet clever animals, the latter a race of spirits, descended from the race who built the gates, banished to an existence without corporeal bodies. Despite the obvious technological and physical shortcomings of some parties the game will balance itself with the use of special trait; the Salaryians have the innate natural ability to cloak, the Farunee`, whilst having destructible war machines, are in themselves, immortal.

The game is being developed in a community atmosphere, giving gamers a chance to shape this undertaking in their own personal way, to help decide on the aspects of the game that will affect them most. The game is based on community contributions; rather than an army of office nuts we prefer the raw, original ideas of the new up and comers, people who love their gaming and want to see their work in a widescale production and be filled with pride.

The best way to get involved would be to hop over to the wiki and have a look at the enormous amounts of work already put in by various behind the scenes contributors as well as the general public. The wiki can be found here.

Right now Matt and I are moving into a high productivity phase now that university is on break for a while. We’ll be devoting most of our time to ED2.0 so don’t expect to see much, if any, progress from the other games. Not to worry though, they haven’t been forgotten and they’ll have some attention turned on them in due course.

Spent some time tonight playing with a new logo too. I’m happy with the background but I couldn’t quite get the text to hang right, so I went with something plain and boring. If anyone wants to give it a better shot just download it and email it back to me.