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The End

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

I made a decision last night to cancel my WoW Account. It was not an easy decision, but it was the right one. Since finally achieving the Loremaster achievement, and even a little while before that, I just haven’t had much fun with the game. I still love the game, but I think I’ve done all I really want to do with my characters – at least for now. I realized that I had not even logged into the game – except maybe once to check my banker’s mail – in almost a month.

Still looking forward to Cataclysm, and I’ll probably renew my account when it comes out, but for now, I feel it’s best to focus on other things, such as Tile Isle, Combat Cast, and other things.

That being said, it should come as no surprise to anyone that I’m discontinuing development on my WoW Armory WP Plugin. Considering Blizzard’s new armory features that let you place your character model and history log on your site, the only thing I’m really offering anymore is the gear list, which isn’t that amazing…

I’m planning to restructure the site a little bit and make it more about general game design (as was it’s original intention), and start moving WoW Armory and related articles to an archive of some kind.

I went ahead and put the source up on Google Code so that anyone who wants to see or use the code for themselves can do so. You can find the project here: http://code.google.com/p/wow-armory-wp-plugin/

I am a little saddened by the need to let it go, but I think it’s for the best. I’ve kept it very close to my chest so I could retain creative control, but I haven’t been able to give it the attention I would like lately, and I haven’t been able to give the users with questions or bugs the help they require.

Well, I think that’s all I have to say for now. Thanks for taking the time to read this. From here on, the posts on this site will focus more on game design, creation, and development.

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wow-armory 8.0 To-do list

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

I’ve been trying to compile a cohesive to-do list for the wow-armory plugin, but I’ve been procrastinating a little bit… I figure if I type it up here and post it, it might motivate me to actually work on it lol. Some of these are still on my list from the contest.. which I can’t believe I haven’t actually worked on many of these yet… yeah, I’m lame… :(

If you have any other suggestions than what’s on this list, please don’t hesitate to comment and let me know!

  • Guild Name Display
  • New, optional Sections: Stats, PvP Stats, Titles, Glyphs, Reputaions, Statistics
  • Refine cacheing more… seems there’s an issue with Wowhead blocking sites that make too many requests… would like to come up with a way to grab and store the images, and only go to Wowhead if the images change, or something…
  • Better bars. I don’t like my achievement points bar, or the other ones.. will need to come up with something better, probably image-less.

Well, that wasn’t as bad as I thought… lol I’m planning to really start working on this release sometime near the end of October, early November.

I’m also thinking of a small incentive to anyone who donates to the plugin’s development… maybe like a special icon or colored thingum on the plugin to show that they’re a supporter.

I really do appreciate any donations, they help keep me from having to abandon this site, and I would like to show that appreciation somehow.

Click here to lend your support to: wow-armory WP Plugin and make a donation at www.pledgie.com !

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Headed for Austin!

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Well, It’s official! Louisa and I are heading down to Austin next month so I can take part in the Flixel Workshop ‘09!

We’ve already booked the room for 3 nights. We’re going to be driving down there on Wednesday, September 16th, and then driving back on Saturday.
The workshop itself is only 4 hours long, so the rest of the time we’ll be sightseeing.
We (well, mostly Louisa ;) ) picked out a few places to check out:
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Achieving is Believeing

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

achieved

In an effort to get more out of our WoW experience, Louisa and I have been attempting to earn as many Achievements as possible. In particular, lately, we’ve been trying to go back and 2-man all of the Burning Crusade Instances that we never got to play (all of them).

It’s been a lot of fun, running through and seeing all these instances, and then getting an achievement at the end. We’ve done Mana-Tombs, Auchenai Crypts, Mechanar, Botanica, and Shattered Halls, successfully, all within the last week. I don’t have too many ‘normal’ instances to run in Outland before getting the Outland Dungeonmaster Achievement.

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Oh yeah!

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

I got my Black Bear tonight!
That is all.

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All for naught (but that’s okay)

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

I just found out that Blizzard has finally updated the Armory to include Achievements!!!

That means that my Achievement page is pretty useless at this point… oh well, the Armory gets automatically updated, so I don’t mind.

Check out Vaire’s Achievements!

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I thought it could never happen…

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

After months of depressing, defeated resignation, after having my hopes and ignorant naivete repeatedly dashed to small pieces, that which I thought had been impossible and would never – could never – happen, surprisingly, shockingly, unbelievably congealed into an event that even now I can hardly think of as anything other than I dream…

I believed that I was undesirable.  I believed that I was unprepared.  I believed that I was unskilled.  I believed that I was an outcast, to be shunned, to be laughed at, teased, scorned, hated, and pitied.  Apparently all of these things were untrue – or at the very least, obstacles that could be overcome in the right situations.  A dream that was nothing more than a fading glimmer of hope came true, and I am still in awe.

Am I being obscure enough for you yet?  Keeping the suspense up?  What am I going on and on about?

I’m talking about the one, the only, the singular, individual, potent and powerful:

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