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Sunday, June 6, 2004
Shooting the vBullet.
If you haven't visited Tony's Group Sounds messageboard, I strongly suggest that you check it out. He's made great use of vB3. Click here to check it out.
I was actually interested to see that Tony's added a games arcade to his message board. If any of you remember what I was talking about a couple of months ago (regarding some significant OB changes), then you should know that Tony's boards provide you with a pretty good glimpse of what we've been doing. That is, we've been adding an "arcade" to OtakuBoards.
Actually, the old vB2 also had an arcade feature. But back at that time, we were already talking about V7...so I decided to hold back on introducing it.
In any case, the vB3 version seems to be better anyway. A bigger variety of games and a better group of features.
The OB Arcade has actually been sitting in wait for about a month now. In other words, it was completed a month ago. So why haven't we opened it yet?
Well, the answer is simple really. In order to launch the arcade, we actually have to implement some critical design changes to the site (relating to the postbit). The design changes aim to improve the functionality of the postbit, by allowing members to challenge one another and so on. The design is actually complete; it just hasn't been implemented.
I say this because the reaction to the arcade seems to have been great, from those who have played around with it. I really had no idea whether it was a truly desirable feature or not, but seeing someone put it to use is great. So that's something to look forward to.
On a semi-related front, I'm really looking forward to the next two weeks being over. Once they're over, 90% of my semester's finals work will have been submitted. At that point I will be a lot more free to devote my time to online stuff.
This will be great. It will allow me to work on my next RPG, to do a tonne of work for N-Sider, to get heavily involved in new construction work for theOtaku.com...and of course, it will allow me to attend to some critical OB upgrades.
Apart from the aforementioned arcade and postbit changes, OtakuBoards should be receiving two additional skins during the summer. I know I've promised skins before and they've been delayed again and again, but as you know, this is largely a result of time constraints. When I have limited time, I prefer to work on more critical things (ie: myOtaku v2), rather than skins and stuff.
I'm also hoping to touch base with Tony about skins and see how his are coming along. Hopefully we'll be talking about three skins during summer, which should add a good sense of variety to OtakuBoards.
Those changes, as well as some forum restructing, should help to revitalize OtakuBoards a little over the summer period. It's good, because since the launch of V7, we really haven't made any key changes to the site. These tweaks and adjustments should definitely help to improve V7 overall.
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