Bionicle.com Online, Finally
At long last, BIONICLE.com has been updated.
I'm currently on Christmas vacation, and 5,000 miles away from the action, so I haven't been involved in pushing it live. After some fits and starts, though, it looks like it's getting done. There are the occasional server errors and a few things to clean up, but overall it's looking good.
The process to update the site wasn't as bad as I'd feared; the biggest challenge was making sure the game would be ready. Battle For Power is a game that will go for 2008, with updates basically every two weeks, starting in February. Visitors get to choose to play as either Good Guy or Bad Guy, and their scores will be adjusted accordingly. (Interestingly, a glitch shows the score as being the same between Good and Evil - that needs to be fixed.)
I'm happy with the design, it came out very close to what I'd originally envisioned. Now, we get to start localizing them into many different languages - including two new languages, Spanish and Portuguese.
The sister site, BIONICLEstory.com, is also ready for an update, and should be pushed live shortly. It actually should've gone first, but oh well. The design on that is much different than what I'd imagined, but I think it will work fine. It's very elegant - maybe too much so... we'll need more color in it. But it's the content that matters.
I'm kind of working blind here, since my email access was inadvertently cut off at the end of 2007, and I'm still working on getting it restored, so I have no idea how many panicked emails I've got waiting
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the new content and games!
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