Aersia

I've just installed a social media block on the sidebar so people can be a part of Aersia wherever they are on the Internet. Starting today, I'll also be tweeting links to announcements. So follow the Twitter if you want to be up-to-date with the latest news on Aersia.

In other news, we seem to have more members than threads.

I swear this will be the next to the last update before the new player will be up for testing, unless I put it off again.

Misc News:
The Awesome Games Done Quick 2013 Marathon is happening right now! Watch these crazy dudes wreck games to pieces for charity. More info here. It's really hard watching, updating, and reading at the time.

This is not an update. It's just me wishing you all happy holidays! (albeit a bit late) I hope you're spending your holidays with friends/family, because without them, you have nothing. NOTHING! The Internet counts, I guess.

Did you know? The Vidya Intarweb Playlist was made as a sort of holiday present for /v/.

Let's listen to some appropriate music by Blake Robinson, a brilliant composer/arranger.


EDIT: Happy New Year!

Today marks the Vidya Intarweb Playlist's 4th birthday! Congrats to 4 years of hand-picked game music!

Misc Update:
There is now a Forum Games Forum forum! All the categories were stolen from Kongregate, because I know little about forum games, and Kongregators seem to be pretty hardcore about their forum games.

Here's how it's gonna go down. I'm going to paste exactly what's on the changelog.
And that's about it.

Why are updates so few and far between?

I'm planning on upgrading the current player to something that's not Flash-based and something that I'll be able to freely alter. Instead of using an XML file for the song list, everything will be in a database. Of course, I can make a script that would load all the records into the database, but I'm also planning on adding the original composer's name on each record, along with a system of tags. That means I have to go through each of the 800+ songs to affix names and tags. The more songs I add,...