A place to record brief notes on the history of our project.

• nfs >7/11/2004 After several years of not much activity, I've got the hankerin to get started again. Hopefully, we'll start making progress soon.

2/19/2002 Archived news items:

• DWM 2/16/2002 I have invited Jumpgate pilot Istvan to join us on this wiki. Should've done so a long time ago -- the man exhibits uncommon good sense in all his bboard posts, and is a fountain of game design ideas, many of which are in harmony with ideas we've had. He obviously shares some of the same dissatisfactions with JG. From private chats with him, I know that he has an extensive computer background, although I don't remember the details. Hopefully he'll create a home page here and tell us a little about himself (including his RL name).
• DWM 2/17/2002: I finally got around to modifying the wiki script to support simple tables. See Text Formatting Rules, and Think Tank, which is where we really needed this feature.

July 27, 2001

We have moved from swiki.net to our own hosted web site. See Swiki Migration for details. Aside from giving us a more reliable forum, this also represents the first commitment of money to the project.

July 17, 2001

On Tuesday, towards the end of the work day at Creative Solutions, Frank Swierz and Dan Muller were having a hallway chat. Frank brought up that old saw about creating our own online game, for fun, and maybe for fame or profit. So Dan created this wiki (originally on swiki.net) that same evening to provide a venue for further discussion.

Jim, Frank, Dan, and John, in that approximate order of fervor, had all participated in NetDevil's beta test of JumpGate, which formally ended on July 16. There were lots of things to like about it, but we all saw certain shortcomings that led to frequent discussions that started with variations of "if I wrote a game like this...". So, what the heck, why not at least toy with the idea of rolling our own?