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Elemental:WoM on Twitter!

'But Guys...what are you working on THIS SECOND?!'

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June 16, 2009 9:33:22 AM from Elemental ForumsElemental Forums

I really like writing journals for you guys, but I have a problem where, if I dont have time to construct something interesting (with videos or picts), I tend to focus on other tasks. This isn't a lazyman excuse, I jsut don't want to shortchange our fans.

Anyways, I found Twitter to be a great in-between for anyone that wants to be kept in the loop but dosen't mind their info presented sans-excitement.

This is the first week we have everyone back from the Demigod time-vortex, so we're shifting from basic 'feature implementation' to the 'polishing the game' portion of development.

Feel free to hop aboard and join our day-to-day!

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Reply #1 June 16, 2009 9:43:24 AM
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*sigh*  Your going to make me join Twitter.....

 

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Reply #2 June 16, 2009 9:45:35 AM
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*sigh* Your going to make me join Twitter.....
Ditto.

 

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Reply #3 June 16, 2009 9:54:34 AM
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No, I think you can view via that web link!  I mean, the more followers the better, but this is more to keep players in the loop, not to get a trillion-zillion followers.

Though, if we ever get a Trillion-Zillion followers, I wouldn't complain   

'Cause that's a big number.

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Reply #4 June 16, 2009 9:55:11 AM
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Umm...tweet?

That's great, Boogie!  Whatever works is much appreciated.

Any word on that Alpha?

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Reply #5 June 16, 2009 10:07:47 AM
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Any word on that Alpha?
  Just that we're plugging away at it

For the last few months we've been just getting features into the game without really taking a step back to play from the users' perspective (read: not much polish was going on).

Brad has come in and changed focus to polishing a very simple core that we can give out to you guys, then reintroduce features and polish them up.

So far it's going very well...this week it's all about getting those load times down. It only takes 5s to make a random map, but up to 1m40s to get into the game.  We've gotten it down to 24s on my machine, I we feel there's still improvements that can be done.

And and silly as I find it sometimes, Twittering our progress seems the best way (ATM) to keep our fans informed but keep on task.

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Reply #6 June 16, 2009 10:10:27 AM
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Thanks Boogie I'm not a big twitter fan, but I'll suffer it for Elemental

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Reply #7 June 16, 2009 10:14:10 AM
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Is there some way to get twitter to send it's updates to my IM client? I hate cell phones.

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Reply #8 June 16, 2009 10:17:05 AM
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Is there some way to get twitter to send it's updates to my IM client?
  Not sure, but there must be something that taps into the popular IM apps. 

I'm new to this too, so we can all learn together

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Reply #9 June 16, 2009 10:19:55 AM
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There's an RSS feed linked on the page, so you could use that and never actually have to go to Twitter itself.

It's probably a good idea for this sort of short post, a dev journal would be overkill for updates about load times.

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Reply #10 June 16, 2009 10:27:03 AM
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Quoting BoogieBac,
reply 5

It only takes 5s to make a random map, but up to 1m40s to get into the game.  We've gotten it down to 24s on my machine, I we feel there's still improvements that can be done.
To learn about these kind of details feels awesome to me.

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Reply #11 June 16, 2009 10:33:01 AM
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Fine....(makes a account) more INFO!

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Reply #12 June 16, 2009 10:34:11 AM
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Know where is a better place then Twitter to write small one line updates?

irc.stardock.com
#elemental

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Reply #13 June 16, 2009 10:35:32 AM
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Quoting CaesarsGhost,
reply 12
Know where is a better place then Twitter to write small one line updates?

irc.stardock.com
#elemental

Not for people who can't sit in IRC all day to watch for them.

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Reply #14 June 16, 2009 10:41:26 AM
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The only thing that I use Twitter for is for following game devs (pretty much just the Natural Selection 2 team) so this is awesome! I get excited by the little snippets of development talk just like what was just posted =D

PS. I love your logo! Super cute!

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Reply #15 June 16, 2009 10:43:28 AM
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Quoting BoogieBac,
reply 5


So far it's going very well...this week it's all about getting those load times down. It only takes 5s to make a random map, but up to 1m40s to get into the game.  We've gotten it down to 24s on my machine, I we feel there's still improvements that can be done.

 

Excellent information...  will gamers notice gameplay improvements on quad-cores and greater?  

Also how's the 64_bit OS  testing going?

 

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Reply #16 June 16, 2009 10:44:35 AM
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Sweet! Eagerly awaiting a deluge of elemental twitter updates

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Reply #17 June 16, 2009 11:02:14 AM
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Finally a good reason to use my twitter account...

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Reply #18 June 16, 2009 11:06:11 AM
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What's Twitter? *cough*

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Reply #19 June 16, 2009 11:07:05 AM
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Any updates are good updates.

 

Thanks for teh info Boogie

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Reply #20 June 16, 2009 11:09:14 AM
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I've been on Twitter more since discovering the joy of various desktop apps for twitter - Twhirl, then Tweetdeck and now Mixero - so having another interesting "person" to follow is good.

But also bad, since now I'll have even more opportunities to read things instead of do things.

Liking the updates so far, twit-bits every now and then as development progresses would be great!

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Reply #21 June 16, 2009 11:10:58 AM
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Quoting Luckmann,
reply 18
What's Twitter? *cough*

If this is a genuine question, it's a generally silly "social network" where you're limited in your posting to 140 characters. It's been around for a while, but really just became the latest fad in the US as the mainstream media started making a huge deal out of it.

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Reply #22 June 16, 2009 11:12:05 AM
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I'm just glad to hear the focus is back on Elemental!

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Reply #23 June 16, 2009 11:20:23 AM
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Thanks for the screenshot of the new pewter spider! It looks great.

Shiny Spider On Cloth Map

My phone will not let me reply on Twitter and I can't go there from work.

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Reply #24 June 16, 2009 12:01:31 PM
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Oh, the horror. Reading and writing were in bad enough shape before people started twitting from the floor of Congress.

And yes, I know they want me to use a different verb. That's because they're properly embarassed about the whole thing despite hoping they can make piles of money from it. Twits.

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Reply #25 June 16, 2009 12:28:12 PM
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I hate Twitter, and I hate Facebook. I just don't want to be a part of it.....

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