WoW Games - War of Wizards

Well we have had a twitter feed for a little while and have used when there have been any server outages.  However we now also have a facebook page that we can post to.  Which will auto post to twitter as well. 

Our Facebook Page is at : http://www.facebook.com/pages/War-of-Wizards/131390603554960

Our Twitter Page is at :  http://twitter.com/warofwizards

Just a quick post.  So the renovations of our house have finished, our new baby has arrived.  Some semblance of normality might now reign at my place, and I can start making some progress on some of the key features we have been discussing for a while.  Looking forward to posting some more updates soon about each new thing that gets implemented.

Well there have been a few performance issues on our server the over the last 48 hours. However we have been moved onto a new host by our provider yesterday and after a outage of a couple of hours we are back on deck and performing again at normal speeds. Hopefully without too much inconveniance.

Well it all started with needing a simple security patch for the web server content management system (Drupal) installation. Fedora 10 had stopped releasing new patches recently. I had heard it was a simple OS upgrade to get to the next release, I figured that would solve all my problems. But no ...

Well as many of you know we are replacing the old signup system with a new database back end and front end. Now that we have the order processor working and our first trial playtest running, the focus has gone back to the signup system.

Below is a link to a mock up of what the new web management interface may look like.
http://www.wowgames.net.au/site/mockup.html

Well after rebuilding the server, setting up a new order management system we are ready to start our first play test. I expect things to be a little bumpy for the first few weeks. Focus now is on completings some of the integration with the new database and provide a website to login and see everything a player will need to see.

Thanks to the 14 playtesters who are going to help us through these next few weeks of very initial testing and development. Appreciated.

Any questions / comments or concerns please contact us.

WoW ... literally ... I have spent the better part of two days trying to get email to be received by wow server that can then be on processed by the mail processor ... should have been a 10 minute configuration .... why so complicated ... one word SELinux ... I was just about at the point of turning the Linux security system off for good. However I finally managed to come up with a way to allow everything to work. Very frustrating couple of days ...

Soon will need some help from people with some basic system testing... Details to follow in the next few days.
Chris

Hi All, A quick weekly update to all.

So another week and some more progress ...

Firstly thanks to everyone who has been busy posting on the WDG group with their suggestions on what can be done for the relaunch of WoW! There have been many fantastic suggestions posted over the last week. We have been capturing them all for later discussion as soon as we are ready.

At mimimum Harry or I will be posting a quick update at least weekly with our progress be it small or large so you know where we are at and what is happening next.

As we move WoW over to the new website and get ready for the relaunch we are going to need a few playtesters to check everying out. If you are interested please click contact us above and let us know.