Author Topic: Challenge Going Live Tonight! (Read 2203 times)

Tbone · « **on:** October 20, 2010, 11:30:39 pm »

Well, once again we are down to the wire. We are very close, but its still uncertain if we will be ready tomorrow night. As of now, here's the game plan...

We have about five things left to do to get this thing ready for live, but I'm not sure if Yotogi will have time tomorrow to do it or not. He needs to implement the static loading screen (after spending a lot of time trying to get a preloader working tonight, that method has been scrapped for now), fix the background screens when the videos play, update the "Ascend" page on thefuriousangels.com, add the new version of videos to the flash file (get to that in a second), and add in the galaxy timer.

I was able to accomplish a few things on my own tonight. I fixed the splash page video so that it doesn't say "Join Soon". I was also able to shave 2MBs off of its size. It still sometimes doesn't load in Firefox (requires a refresh), and that's something we'll look at post-launch.

I compressed the videos in part two of the challenge from 26MBs to 9MBs, so that should dramatically reduce the load time for part two. Yotogi just needs to add those new videos to the flash.

I also did away with the Recruitment forum, putting old apps in the new application forum and posted the cypher on our non-member forums. Try to keep that thread roleplay only, please.

There are still other tweaks and animations I want to work on with the challenge, but at this stage Yotogi and I are both comfortable with it going live if we can implement those last things without everything breaking.

He's going to update me throughout the afternoon, and as soon as I hear one way or another, I'll send out a text blast and email to everyone. I would really like to get one last round of testing in before going live, so I'd like for as many people to be available as possible.