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A lot of people have been bugging me about this (rightfully so!), and so made an options screen available from the menu. From there you can change the volume (which now starts off quite low as the source sounds are very loud), or disable lighting (still accessible via T key).

Well, I only got one submission for the fanart contest, so choosing a winner was very easy! 😉

Here is Vrocaan’s submission, which shows several new weapons that would be pretty cool to have in-game, and sooner or later I’ll get around to implementing:

For his efforts, Vrocaan gets 250g!

I wrote an app to generate many connections to the server and simulate many players moving around:

After doing some optimizations (now on the live server), I was pleased to have the server still perform well, even with 250 (simulated) players moving around at the same time. Since the server is running in debug mode, I expect once I switch to release mode it will be even higher!

I got a new frontpage set up today that has a little description and embedded trailer. This is nice because new users can see what the game is before downloading a meg of code & asset files.

If you’re running in low-res, it’ll autohide the sidebar, and otherwise it’ll show it in normal situations. I tested the site in Firefox, Chrome, and IE — but if it looks broken in your browser, please let me know.

WHEW!  I finally finished recording & editing my first ever vlog:

In it, I discuss the new player town system and how to create your own player town.  I tried to make it informative, but also entertaining.  If you’d like to see more of these, please let me know!

One of our long time players, Vrocaan, had a good idea for a fan art contest to kick off the first ever vlog:

Over the next week, I’ll be accepting fan art via e-mail.  Make some new fan art and send it to me, and the winner will be whichever one I like the best 😉

The winner will receive a token for 250 gold!

Contest closes at noon US Pacific time on Feb 1st.

Legal notes:  By entering this contest, you consent to your fan art & screen name being posted on 8BitMMO publications.  No purchase required.  Retail value of this prize is ~$1.14.  Winner will be posted to http://blog.8bitmmo.net

Robby “Sim9″ Zinchak is doing some remarkable work on a free-to-play in-your-browser totally-awesome-game project! Also, I used-too-many-hyphens in that last sentence. But seriously, I gave 8BitMMO a try last night and now keep trying to figure out whether to focus on work or returning to my 8-Bit home and continue building. Hopefully work will win out. Or maybe I secretly hope that. . .

<3  Check out the full post here along with Jenito Games’ MicroTale project