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Official wow-armory WP Plugin New Feature Contest Extravaganza + PRIZES!

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

prizes

Contest is Closed!

No more entries are allowed for the contest. Thanks everyone for entering! Please bear with me while I tally up the entries and determine the winners. I’ll have a list of winners by July 1st (should be much sooner than that).

Update!

Well, there’s a little more than 24 hours left in the contest, so post, post, post!

As a last-minute surprise:Smart Bomb Enterprises has donated a prize for the contest:

To the grand prize winner:
One WordPress hosting account with a World of WarCraft template. Provided by www.NuTemple.com a WarCraft Sanctuary hosted by www.FireDragonHosting.com*

*Hosting account is for One (1) year and is renewable at rate of $4.95mo or $24.90yr Template is created by Smart Bomb Enterprises and is under Free License that can be used anywhere as long as all embedded links remain intact. Prize is supplied by Smart Bomb Enterprises www.smartbomb.ca

Guess what?! I’m building a list of all the most sought-after additions or changes to the wow-armory Plugin, which means I need your feedback! You might even win some prizes!

  • Have you ever thought of any feature that would make the plugin better?
  • Ever wanted it to show something more or differently?
  • Know of some way to make it even better?

Now’s your chance to help me come up with an extensive list of possible changes for me to make over the next few months! Rules and Prize information after the cut!

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21.05.2009 Featured, New Feature Contest, Projects, Specials, wow-armory Plugin 27 Comments

Note to Self: Read the Manual!

Friday, December 5th, 2008

We bought a condo a few months ago (8, I think), and in the process of moving, my motherboard fried and died, so I had to buy a new motherboard.

I picked one that seemed decent, and I also got a processor that was better than the one I had.

Now, I’m not very knowledgeable about hardware, so I followed the instructions for setting up my motherboard, and plugged everything in including the video card I’d been using with my other motherboard.  Powered up the computer, and nothing showed up on the screen.  After several hours of wrestling with everything, I figured that my video card had also been fried by whatever killed my old motherboard.  I took it off, and was able to get the on-board video card to display with no problems.  So, since April, I’ve been using the much less powerful on-board card for everything, including playing WoW.

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05.12.2008 Personal No Comments

Dined and Boozed.

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

Azeroth has spent the last 2 weeks celebrating Brewfest – a holiday eerily similar to German Oktoberfest, only with more Dwarves.

There were major changes from last year, and Louisa and I really wanted to get into it.  Last year, we were able the finish up the festivities with a cool mount, which we’ve been using ever since.  This year, they added a new mount: the Great Brewfest Kodo. The first, and currently only Kodo mount that can be owned and used by an Alliance player. The only caveat was that this year, unlike the ram, this mount can’t be bought by doing the simple, fun Brewfest quests and turning in tickets – it only drops from the new, level 73 Elite Boss, Coren Direbrew.

Now, Mr Direbrew hangs out inside the instance known as Blackrock Depths, or BRD for short.  He’s hiding out in the back room of the Grim Guzzler tavern (in the center of the instance), plotting and recruiting people to go crash Brewfest for him to wreak havoc.  It takes a party of 5 level 70s to take him down, and then the mount only has a tiny chance to drop – something like 0.1%.

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04.10.2008 Personal, World of Warcraft No Comments

Space Game Cards

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Here’s all of the game’s card types that I’ve made up in Photoshop. None of the illustrations are shown, except the Planet one (because I didn’t think anyone would understand how I intended it to look).

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08.09.2008 Game Development, Projects, Writing No Comments

Space Game Update

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

So, it only took me about a day to finish writing down my plans for my Space Game – although, I do want to proofread, re-read, and triple check everything to make sure it sounds good, and I still need to make some more mock-ups for the other cards.  I really like  how it all turned out.  It just seemed to flow together effortlessly, and I’m really happy with it.  So, here are a few of the mock-up cards I made for it:

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07.09.2008 Game Development, Projects, Writing No Comments

I know it’s never going to happen, but…

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

So, as you might remember from this post, I can’t help myself from thinking up elaborate plans for things that I somehow know are never going to happen… well, I had some inspiration last night, while I was lying awake, trying to fall asleep…

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04.09.2008 Game Development, Personal, Writing 1 Comment

Again with the thinking and the planning…

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

I occasionally have these bursts of inspiration that seem to come out of nowhere, give me this charged feeling that makes me think: “This is a great idea, and I can do this!”, and then set me down this path of planning and brainstorming something that typically ends up being abandoned.  Zounds! was such an inspiration, and while it seems (so far) that it’s going to be a worthwhile endeavor – at least I hope so – I’m also very afraid that it’s going to be yet another flop.  TARGEngine, although I still really want to work on it, just doesn’t seem to be feasable anymore… there’s too many things that are ‘wrong’ that I simply don’t have the knowledge to fix… That being said, I’ve just been hit with the inspiration stick, yet again, and I wanted to get some of these thoughts out here so that I don’t lose them.  At the very least, this might help to illuminate my thought processes…

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24.07.2008 Game Development, Projects, Writing 2 Comments