I played a little Allods Online during the closed beta and was impressed with what I saw. It felt polished for a free to play game, and there was just the right balance of WoW clone and original features to give it a broad appeal. This week the cash shop opened, and boy are the… [more]

We recently launched Maiden Desmodus on Kongregate and part of converting the client for their site involved integrating their user authentication with our own account system. This was a fairly simple process, but I’ll outline the steps I took here in case it proves useful to anyone else. When users connect to Maiden Desmodus for… [more]

We’ve started on the design for the next game and as it’s going to use a completely custom client I’ve been looking around at more general socket servers for the backend. I had toyed with the idea of using our existing engine built on top of Nakedmud, but came to the conclusion that we need… [more]