This website, and All Around Games (http://allaroundgames.net) will be participating in the SOPA Blackout on January 18th.

On the 18th you will be unable to reach this website, instead you will be redirected to a website containing information about how you can help stop SOPA.

If SOPA passes this website will undoubtedly be taken down, due to the very nature of the names, and the images on the website.  Forums will also disappear at a rapid pace if SOPA is passed, SOPA makes the owner of the website responsible for all content on the website, including forum posts. Meaning if someone even post an image of Spiderman on the forums, or uses it in a signature the website would not only be blocked, but I could be charged.

SOPA present a big problem for the Sandcrawler Network websites, because there is a lot of information that is user uploaded. So help stop it if you want this website to continue.

PS: PIPA is almost the same as SOPA, and also has to be stopped.

PSS. I don't normally get involved in politics, but this effect the internet, something that we should all care greatly about.

More and better information:
http://americancensorship.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
http://sopastrike.com/

This weekend was a rather busy one, what with Ludum Dare going on. I still accomplished a few things with the website.

- New Ace of Spades Tutorial (Pyspades Map Editor)
- Changes to the tutorials pages (backend admin stuff and almost no one will ever see )
- Changes to the Servers page, to reflect the fact that we have two Killing Floor Servers, and one Ace of Spades server.

The servers we have:




32 Slot Ace of Spades Server
aos://182968642

All of these servers are hosted by Jest Servers:
http://main.jestservers.com/

You'd be hard pressed to find a better Game Server host, so if your going to rent a Game Server give him a try...he'll host almost anything


Expect some additional changes to the website soon, I want to get all of the pages looking more alike, So Contests, Links, Servers, and FAQ pages need to be updates...or removed

Cosmetic changes made to the Downloads page (instead of a link going to a page of links to add or update a map, they are now directly linked to on the Downloads Page navigation.

Fixed an issue with the map uploader/submitter that prevent all five screenshots being shown (only showed one)

We have added a new game to our list of supported games, Ace of Spades.

Ace of Spades is a independently developed game by Ben Aksoy, it is running on Ken Silverman's Voxlap engine. In once scene it's like Minecraft, on the other its a First Person Shooter. You can shot to destroy blocks, bases, as well as build your own base or fort. You goal, defend your intel from the enemy.

The game has support for custom maps, as well as skins for weapons. On the tutorial page you will find three new tutorials, covering the basics of mapping for Ace of Spades. The Downloads section now has a number of Ace of Spades categories.

To download this game (I forgot to mention its free ) go to http://ace-spades.com/

* New Page Navigation for Tutorials and Downloads
* New Collapsible Sections on Tutorials and Downloads, with cookie setting goodness for remembering what was open and closed
* Misc changes to tutorials and downloads pages
* New feature on tutorials, add your own tutorials
* New feature on tutorials, update/edit your tutorials

* New Game support added (see the next post for more details