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This Week in Real Life #14
 11/15/2018
This week started on a somewhat sad note. If you're anything like us, chances are you grew up reading the Amazing Spiderman or any of the other kick ass super heroes published by Marvel Comics. So when the news of Stan Lee's death reached us on Monday we were sent on a bittersweet trip down memory lane. Lee's contributions to creating the complex modern super hero we know and love today cannot be understated. And he lived to become 95 years old! Well done mister. Read more » In other news, this week we took the time to add some more code to the game to prevent certain people from manipulating web page requests and play tricks on our game engine. Working on something like that is always a mixed bag of emotions. On one hand it can be an interesting game of cat and mouse, but in the end it's hard to shake off the feeling that 99.9% of our players would probably want us to work on new content for the game instead.
Speaking of new content, there are still some islands left to discover on the seven seas. If you need help hunting that elusive Master of the Seven Seas achievement, or simply wish to speed up the sailing, there are now some helpful credit items for sale which you might be interested in HERE. (Shameless plug! Yes we know, sorry about that, unfortunately that's how life works sometimes.)
Next week we'll crawl down into the muddy trenches of the great Wishing Well. We'll program all new features using nothing but morse code. Helmets will be our only protection from the mortar shells raining down upon us when the armies of unforeseen bugs close in our position. But fear not, our spirits are high and we have faith it will be over by christmas.
Enjoy the rest of the week people. Excelsior!
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This Week in Real Life #13
11/8/2018
After a week of fall break and running the game on a skeleton crew we're now back in full force... that is if you can consider a trio of developers anything but a skeleton crew. Come to think of it, we kinda like skeleton crews around here, especially if they are out sailing on the seven seas. Hmmm, maybe we're on to something here... Read more » Things haven't been as stagnant on our end as they might have appeared to though. Among other things we took the time to do some much needed database maintenance. There are a number of databases running behind the scenes of this game and in total they handle roughly 400 gigabytes of data.That's five times the memory capacity of Johnny Mnemonic! Luckily for us our servers aren't as skinny as he was and can handle the load a little better. Sadly they aren't as charming and easy on the eyes though. Either way, handling that much data without getting the Black Shakes from information overload requires a fair amount of manual intervention from time to time.
The Wishing Well is now scheduled to start on the twentyfirst this month so if you haven't already voted on what you think we should upload into the game brain this year we highly suggest you do so here. Thank you!
What else? We noticed you found the soft boiled egg we hid in the game. We're tremendously saddened by this and we've made a promise to ourselves that the next one will be IMPOSSIBLE to find.
Enjoy the rest of the week people!
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This Week in Real Life #12
11/1/2018
'Tis the season to be spooky, and it's truly a bit spooky for the rest of us when Jonas is on vacation abroad, since he's the real mastermind when it comes to sorting out problems in the oldest parts of the game code.
As we mentioned last week, it's fall break here in Sweden, and that's why this will be the shortest TWiRL to date. Those of us left in Sweden have been trying to do as little damage as possible by not releasing any new tweaks to the game. Instead, we've focused on getting the voting system for this year's Wishing Well in place, and you'll be able to cast your votes next week. This time, you'll be awarding points to the best suggestions, Eurovision style. May the best song... sorry, idea win!
Also, rumor has it that a toaster loving robot on the moon discovered that a bunch of new islands had surfaced on the Seven Seas, and a few intrepid explorers are already busy trying to unravel their secrets. Go join in on the adventure!
Enjoy the rest of the week, people!
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