Long time since the last update, but there’s been lots going on in the meantime. Lawyer-Time Incorporation Station is rolling along, I’m getting ready to bring on some investors, Ryan has begun full-time work, and I’m deleting files indiscriminately to make room for the massive Photoshop files I’m working on for the forum. But before that, a long-awaited banner update! Here are three cool ones, but hit the Banner Contest page for more:
The Banner Contest is finally updated again! There are about 40 banners still in the queue, but a lot of them are pretty freaking cool. I’ve actually gotten several compliments from people outside of Starmen.Net who were really impressed with the banners. You guys sure know how to make this place look good.So, since my last update (which was before Christmas) lots has gone on. I got a nasty flu, got better, and eventually went to see THE AXEL. That meeting went well — we discussed a lot, and we’ve got an incorporation plan going forward. Lots of money going forward too ( D: ), and because of that I’m finally shoring up all of my money- and investor-related decisions. I seriously can’t wait til this part of the business stuff is done with, heh.
Development Progress
A few days (or maybe a week) ago, Ryan and I finally sat down and really began hammering out a plan for how development stuff is going to work out. We’re signed up with Springloops for managing our SVN repository, and sarsie has been getting a simple svn hosting solution set up for our volunteer developers in the meantime. Ryan showed me a preview of the forum software earlier today, it seems to be going really well :D
Speaking of volunteer devs, we’re getting ready to start posting projects, but things are going a bit slow due to how busy I’ve been recently with personal stuff and ‘leftover’ freelance projects. I’ve got big plans for the real Sprite DB app, though, so hopefully one of the volunteers is enjoying their work on the SWRC enough to continue it.
Upcoming Design Opportunities?
Design stuff is going…kinda well. I mean, I’ve got lots of ideas, but it’s going really freaking slow because my hard drive is packed to the gills and Photoshop wants to use 5+ gb just for my forum design alone. I use a lot of nested folders and smart objects…I’m realizing that while it’s a nice way to save time and disk space, it comes back to bite you on the scratch drive, so I’ve started deleting old project files to free up some room.
Once I get a new hard drive (or a new laptop, who knows) I’ll really get going, and I may be cutting another facet into this project: a volunteer design force to help me with ideas and concepts for the Fangamer mockups. I’m thinking about posting my .psd files for anyone to mess around with and make design suggestions, and perhaps bringing the people with super good ideas on board to help out with the hundreds of miscellaneous design tasks we’re going to encounter over the next 5 months.
Back to sleep for now… hopefully I’ll be spending a lot of time on Fangamer stuff tomorrow. Keep on rocking for the kids.
Good update. Is there something wrong with starmen.net right now? I keep getting a FORBBIDEN 403 error when I try to go…
NKing, I’ve been getting the same error, so it isn’t just you.
Anyway, glad to see things are going well! The sheer outpouring of effort, both from you two and the community, is remarkable, and I’m excited to see how things progress.
Yeah, Ryan and I are working on some cleanup stuff for the server, it should be back up sometime tonight or tomorrow.