Tuesday, January 26, 2010

New Company Site, Game Updates, and Server Problems

We are well into 2010 and it's is looking to be an exciting year for Crimson Moon and Crimson Productions, LLC!

Our Company Site has been completely redesigned in order to better present our company and prepare for several projects coming this year. We are excited for the changes to the site and have many more to release. One of those being the release of the new Crimson Productions Ad Network. We are positioning to start doing our own advertising and depending less on ad networks such as Google. The ad network is currently running on Crimson Moon Server 1 and Crimson Games. We currently are just running google through our own network. We will be adding more information very soon.

We have also hired some help in the non technical areas of our company and will soon be announcing the addition of a new Marketing Specialist. She has much better spelling and grammar than me, so hopefully you see some changes in that area:)

Those wanting to follow my actual twitter feed where I post everything the company is doing, can follow the Crimson Productions, LLC Feed on Twitter. That is also my personal twitter feed.


We've been doing a few smaller game upgrades as we've been busy with other projects at the start of the year, but have managed to sneak a few in. I would like to remind everyone to view and Follow Us on our CMRPG Twitter Feed. We will post detailed updates as we do them. One update to mention is the page layout has been recoded on the back end to allow the page title you are on to be in the actual page title. That way when you are trying to back or forward using your browser, you can see exactly what page you are on.

Coming up I have scheduled some additional work on the battle script and a complete redesign of the Battle or Player Search.

As well, work is well underway on the name Crimson Productions, LLC game that will be released this year. Beta testing is going very well and thanks to those VIP players that are assisting.

Lastly, I wanted to talk about the server problems we've been having as of late. We had some issues with the OS on our server and logging that was causing our databases to fail. This issue has been corrected and the sites should now be running even faster. We will continue to monitor the situation. We have never said, but you all should know that  all our sites are backed up nightly and stored off site.

Thanks for playing and we appreciate your support! The game wouldn't be where it is without it's players.

Delvagan (Big D)
Owner

Crimson Productions, L.L.C.
http://crimsonproductionsllc.com

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Merry Christmas Crimson Moon

I just wanted to wish all who celebrate a VERY Merry Christmas this year. Stay safe if traveling. We are planning to travel this year, but may not since I hear sleet/ice/snow hitting my window as I type this. It looks to be a White Christmas this year. I may be gone a few days.

Don't forget to hurry and send those gifts out before 12am tonight and enjoy opening those present tomorrow through the 31st! There are many great prizes to be had including the popular Christmas Amulet.

As well, don't forget to vote daily at BBGSITE for the 2009 Best Browser RPG Game contest we were nominated for. Vote Now!

The new year is approaching and I have a feeling it's going to be an exciting year and have many things lined up including a new design for the company site, the release of a new game, and many more updates and additions to Crimson Moon!

Activation Process

I went through the entire process of creating an account and then activating it. I found that the activation process was confusing and could be simplified, so I reworked this entire area.

Now when activated for one Server it will check all the rest to see if it matches. You no longer have to choose which game server you are activated. It checks all 3.

While doing this process I discovered a bug that presented itself a few weeks back that was keeping players that joined from activating. That has now been fixed and I've manually activated all those accounts made during this time frame.

So, if you were having issues activating...you should be able to login and use your account now.

If you are a new player joining after this update, I'd be interesting in knowing what you thought of the activation process now.

D

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Crimson Moon Nominated - 2009 Best Browser RPG Game Of The Year on BBGSITE

Crimson Moon has been nominated to participate in the 2009 Best Browser RPG Game Of The Year on BBGSITE. Voting began on December 8th, 2009 and concludes on January 8th, 2010.

Vote For Crimson Moon Now!

Head on over to BBGSITE.COM today and vote for Crimson Moon! We can win this! This will greatly help up the exposure of Crimson Moon!

You can vote daily so remember to vote every 24 hours. They will be awarded out special ECodes to players that vote that you can claim 1 time on our site. Also, I'll reward all players in the game a special prize if we get in the Top 3!

You want to click the yellow vote button to the right for your vote to count!

Vote For Crimson Moon Now!

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Santa Claws Workshop and Tree

Santa Claws has decided to open up his workshop this year and allow players to purchase various presents for other players in the game. Each player can have up to 7 presents.

On Christmas Day (December 25th) through December 31st you can visit the Melania Christmas Tree and open those presents for various prizes including the Very Rare Christmas Amulet.

You are able to delete presents and buy gifts until December 25th, so have fun with it. At that point what you have can be opened until 12am January 1st. Anything not opened by then goes to the children of Melania never to be seen again.

Remember the Crimson Coin Holiday Special is in full swing as well as the Holiday Pack now available in the Upgrade Store for 30 coins.

Also, the Meta Accomplishment for Getting Started has been changed from 1 Crimson Coin to 6 Free VIP Days that are auto applied to that account only. This is not transferable.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Tis The Season and Getting Started Accomplishments

It's that time of year again! Santa Claws will be making his rounds very soon. With that in mind we've started the annual 1/5 Christmas Special in the Upgrade Store. Head on over to the store now to read more about this special and stretch your Crimson Coins this holiday season.

Back again is also the Holiday Package in the store that you can purchase for other players for 30 Crimson Coins. This is the only time they will be able to collect the 2009 Crimson Moon Holiday Ornament.

We're excited to release a new set of accomplishments geared towards giving new players a walk through of important areas of the game to get accustomed to. All players will be able to participate. Check them out in the Accomplishments area under the Getting Started category. Also, is the introduction of the first Meta Accomplishment for finishing all of the Getting Started accomplishments and rewards 1 Crimson Coin, which can now be redeemed for a VIP6.

We've been busy making many minor changes around the site and those can be further read on our Twitter feed. We've moved some of the social network links to the bottom of the site layout and changed them to badges in our effort to further simplify the game layout.

We have also moved the Fast Links to be on all pages to allow you quicker access to the various areas of the game.

We also have removed the Shoutback forum from the game and have consolidated it into the new forum. A News Feed category was created to house all the lottery updates and the shoutbacks for updates will go to the feedback section of the forum.

There are more that I've listed on the Twitter Feed.

Expect much more coming soon including a neat little addition for the Holidays this year.

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

New Vote Setup and Vip6!

We've been falling down in the vote rankings and most of this is due in part to a lack of people voting. In order to help make it worthwhile we've implemented some changes to the vote structure.

Sites are now lumped into 2 categories. Advanced sites allow me more options in requiring votes, so these site will now award 5 energy and 1 extra train at the Gym! As well a prize entry into the drawing will be held more often and picked from those that vote.

Basic Sites are much easier to vote on and usually reward 1 energy to be used.

As well, there is now a Vote Challenge area where I'll pick 1 or serveral of the vote sites and issue the players a challenge w/ a prize going out to some or all of the players if that challenge is met.

I realize that sometimes it can be annoying to vote and some sites do have really nasty captcha's installed. This really does help CM continue the grow, while also provided new recruits or additional targets.

I have cleaned out several dead sites and will continue to remove site I feel are not working or abandoned.

Due to the first challenge and a new accomplishment bonus I"m working on, I've added a new VIP6 to the game. It's basically a 6 day VIP pass that you can purchase with 1 coin. So now someone who has less than 5 coins has something they can spend it on.

With the holidays in full gear keep checking back as I'll begin making some changes for the season. Expect to see some new contests and features as well as some of the usual. As usual Santa Claws will be making a return to Melania this year.

Thanks for playing everyone! See you in the game!

D