The chat room is permanently closed. Why? Because it's stupid. Now that I have a dedicated internet connection, I thought it would be cute to keep a chat client up all of the time so people visiting the website could talk to me. However, I have just discovered that if I launch the chat client it times out after some period of time. Which makes it rather useless in my opinion. So, if you want to chat, face your fears and install Yahoo Messenger and add me to your 'buddy' list. jratcliff63367 is my Yahoo Messenger ID. jratcliff, obviously standing for John Ratcliff, and 63367 is my zip code. So, feel free to yahoo me if you get a chance.
Planetside Screenshots
I realize that this post is going to cause some Web-Wiplash, but I think that is ok. For years I have held onto some old Planetside screenshots that I wanted to post online some day. After scouring an old hard drive yesterday these are the ones I came up with. Still, I know I am missing many of the screenshots I really wanted to keep. Especially ones from when the game was very early in development. I designed the entire client side game engine myself and I had a lot of fun during the development process. One of my regrets is that, in many respects, the final game did not look nearly as visually impressive as it did at certain points during development. There were a number of reasons for this. One was from a technology stand point. Most developers of an MMO game engine might assume it would be reasonable to stream data in as a player moved around the environment. That was certainly my original design. However, once the game got into heavy beta testing there was a strong push to get eve...
Comments