wanderingstan

UltraCorps and EverNight ride again

Big news!! For some nostalgic reason I was Googling old projects and did a search for my first real project out of college: UltraCorps. "The Ultimate Online Intergalactic Strategy Game." There were of few of the old reviews, but then a new link from Steve Jackson games. "What's this?" I ask. Here's what I read:

October 22, 2004: Hacking Away
Three of us are putting in a late Friday right now, working with the Ultracorps server. It runs, but not completely. In particular, we can't yet set up new accounts, and we can't get it to tick. Best guess right now is that it has to do with a whole lot of hard-coded net addresses which we'll have to find and correct, one at a time.

WTF? That's 2004! That's just a week ago! Yes, Steve Jackson Games has purchased UltraCorps and it will soon be back to life. For those that don't know, SJ Games is a sort of a gamer's game company. I am very honored for my little creation to find a home there.

And of course, this meant I had to look into my second VR-1 project, EverNight. Sure enough, it is back to life and already running at www.evernightgame.com. Turns out that some fans of the game got together to buy it. That's just about the best compliment I can think of. I will go to sleep a happy man tonight.