Forumwarz

As many of you know, we ran a multi-stage puzzle on Halloween. It was authored by handofg0d, and edited/programmed by the Crotch Zombie team. It went over very well for the most part...

I was feeling a little nostalgic today, and looked through old blog archives I had. I found this curious entry from 2006: Collaboration - September 7th, 2006 A couple of friends and I are working on a small project in our space time, and it’s been a lot of fun so far. ...

Hey everyone, As threatened in our last post, here's the podcast for your listening pleasure: The Episode 3 Development Podcast

So the great news is the gameplay upgrade launched quite smoothly. We also made some major server software upgrades and the site is running much faster for it. For the geeks reading this: we upgraded to Ruby 1.9.1, which is quite a big change from Ruby 1.8.6...

When Episode 3 of Forumwarz launches, there will be hundreds of new items available for players to obtain, trade and use to their advantage. Since we've covered the basics of Episodes 1 and 2 with itembuildr already, we're going to hijack itembuildr for a while to create Episode 3 content...

I'm delighted to announce that after months of development, we're going to launch the new gameplay enhancements on September 10th. Addtionally, the new gameplay features will also herald a new Domination season!...

Features in the Gameplay Revamp: In early June, we begun development of a new fork of the Forumwarz code base, with the goal of making the core gameplay more varied and interesting...

Hey everyone, It's been a while since our last post. That's mostly because a) we now have a Twitter feed for everything we do and b) we've all been up to our asses in work — to serve you better. Nevertheless, I'm sick of my seeing that same stupid Zunecast post of mine! ...

It's been a long time since we've had a Zunecast (yeah, I'm calling it a Zunecast, wanna fight about it?) and last time I was unable to participate thanks to technical difficulties...

Jalapeno Bootyhole is looking for a summer intern: a brilliant, talented wordsmith whom he can mold into the next great writer of online parody role-playing games — a very in-demand career choice, we might add. Does this sound appealing? ...

I'm happy to announce that greasemonkey superstar Invariel is joining Crotch Zombie over the summer to work on a game extension to Forumwarz. Invariel caught our attention by writing a useful script to make Forumwarz raiding easier...

It has been about 6 months since we launched Forumwarz Episode 2! The initial plot for Forumwarz was written quite some time ago. Based on a few meetings where the team discussed what we'd like to have in the story, Jalapeno Bootyhole wrote up an outline...

As part of the continuous effort to introduce more players to Forumwarz, we have coded up a Beta system for running affiliate ads. We're looking for people who have sites and are trying to monetize them. Basically here's how it works: We give you ads to run on your site...

We've listened to your feedback on itembuildr and pushed out a few updates: The item-generating code is a lot better. There should be fewer random repeats of the same item class. You should never get the same item class twice in a row...