We stand on the verge of a new era for BWL Development. And I wish to welcome all refugees from the FileFront hosted site apocalypse.
Indeed… welcome to bwldevelopment.com
Now, our transition to the new host was a hasty one since we had only a few days notice. That being the case, I had to foot the full set-up bill here on our new paid host service provided by justhost.com. Normally, that set-up would have been free… but I had no time to come up with more then a month-by-month payment plan.
I certainly seek your help in covering our expenses with the new site. My PayPal link in the left column is here to help accept donations for the cost of server expenses.
Moving on… in the coming days we will be voting on our site direction. You see, I have always expected hl2files to eventually close… though I did expect more warning. Moving to a paid service provider was always the plan.
And since we are no longer a hosted site for an HL2 website, we don’t need to only focus on HL2 and its derivative games.
So…
I a want to recruit volunteers to cover news and events for other games. Obviously, members should always feel welcome to post gaming news on the forum. But I am going to start looking for writers for this blog.
Tonight, I am posting a poll concerning other games/companies we could cover in addition to Valve/ Source Engine Games. Choose your 5 favorites. At the end of 1 month’s time, we will decide which are the most popular five other games/developers to cover.
At that time, volunteers can come forward and we can also recruit from sites like Unconcerned. We will need five “news/op ed” writers for these games… one each. Their task will be to write articles for the blog when developers make news. The writers will also be responsible for coming up with any features for the same games such as Op Ed pieces, reviews, suggestions for a new game, tips, or whatever they feel like.
Tonight, I will be recreating the site tree with new pages, but the changes will be relatively minor. I mainly want to make the point clear that fictions and comics for other non-source games, or not even game related at all, are welcome.
Finally, once again I say welcome. Welcome to the new website.
UPDATE:
It seems the little WP Widget for my poll isn’t going to work on the new server. It hangs every time I try to submit. That being the case, I’ve posted a topic in the forums. Go there to suggest your favorites…
