Hi aprone, been there, with hard drive failiers.
I must admit I never got into swamp at least not fully though I have
gone back and forth from time to time.
But since its no longer free and since I really can not commit to any
actual time in my busy life a subscription to anything is something I
really can't see myself doing.
Fact is swamp was nice till all the hackers got at it, and it became non
free.
Then life got in the way and I stopped playing.
I can't see myself going back, a lot of things have changed, a lot of
players even in the audiogames community I used to know seem to be doing
other things as it is.
On 4/21/2018 5:54 AM, Jeremy Kaldobsky wrote:
A few days ago Swamp received it's first official update in quite a long time. Very long
ago, a hard drive crash had destroyed my up-to-date source code for the client, which
basically forced me to stop producing updates unless I wanted to work up from the old
version "3.5 testing 7", which was a version technically from before the
official version 3.5. In all this time between then and now, I've slowly (quite slowly)
dropped in and did a little work here and there, and with the help of more detailed
developer change logs to serve as my road map, I got pretty close to the current version.
In the past week I made a dedicated push to get things finally back up to the current
state of Swamp, and we've finally got things back on track.
Once again having current source code is one thing, but the next part is to try
and increase the number of active players to what it once was. Swamp is a game
that's more fun when the server is packed full of players, and no new updates
are going to matter to people who aren't playing and won't see it.
I've gone into the database and given each and every account 1 free month.
This means that everyone benefits, but people who were out of time benefit the
most. My hope is that this free month will get people back into Swamp, even if
they only stick around until the month runs out. Since it's the 20th of the
month, someone jumping in to use the free month is only going to get 10 days to
play. I realize that isn't the best plan, and some people would prefer to wait
and start up their free month on the first of next month. That would give them
the entire month. It's going to be up to the players to decide when to use it.
For this publicity stunt to work, people who used to play Swamp need to hear about it. I
can post on here or the forums, but relatively few players check these places regularly.
Spread the word, if you will. Even if we only get 10 days of the "good old
days", where 50+ people are signed in and running missions, then it will be loads of
fun and worth the trouble. If people enjoy themselves enough, we might get some of those
people to stick around longer, and give Swamp a bit of a revival. I plan to work on a
larger update than the 3.7 that I posted yesterday, but I'm not sure when it will be
ready. I'd Love to get the behemoth working in multiplayer, because that will be a
really fun mission type. I also have several bugs to fix, and some new feature ideas
that I'm going to look into adding.
- Aprone
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