A Day In The Life Of A Bionicle Webmaster
Planning for the second half of 2008 is going well, and I’ve got most of the stuff ready. In case you’re interested, here’s a day in the life of a BIONICLE webmaster…
- The design has been created, four rounds of reviews later we have a winner. It’s a lot brighter than anything you’ve seen from BIONICLE.com in a long time.
- The game is coming along just fine, as far as I know. I’ve only seen screenshots, but I have every confidence it’ll rock. It’s being done by the same company that did the Mahri and Phantoka games, among others, and will be a different type of game than we’ve done to date.
- The first TV commercial is nearly done, and I’ll be using that CGI online. In fact, we have quite a bit of CGI that will be used on BIONICLE.com throughout the rest of ’08, some of it exclusive to the web site.
- All the downloads, wallpapers, and so on (except song) have been finished. They look good. Screensavers are a little different than previously, I think they make more sense now.
- Some Flash-based projects are being done externally, and I saw the preliminary of the home page one. It’s gonna be excellent.
- Story content for the web site is being reviewed/revised/created by Greg.
- B.I.O. code rewards have been decided on. I was initially toying with the idea of compiling a big ol’ image then cutting it into puzzle pieces; each BIO code would give you a piece. That would make you want to get as many BIO codes as possible to see the finished picture. But you would’ve had to print and cut out the pieces, or use image editing software… I don’t have resources available to make it a complete online experience. So I had to reluctantly pass on that idea. But maybe we can do that for ’09. Fortunately, I have some cool content that matches the characters, so you’ll get something nifty… I just have a couple of ones I have to track down.
- Planning for 2009 is well under way. I will be working with LEGO for the rest of 2008, so I’ll have a pretty big hand in what happens for the first half of ’09 on BIONICLE.com. I’m really excited about the direction this is heading… the ’09 web site will totally blow away anything you’ve seen from LEGO before, I think.
- Look for a revised BIONICLE.com / BIONICLE.co.uk / BIONICLE.de in July, and the rest in August/September.
- Yes, BIONICLEstory will be updated, but not in a major way… mostly just additional Mistika content.
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