The Force is unleashed!

Frozen Donkey Software proudly presents, the first and best Star Wars The old Republic fan website in the world wide web:

www.swtor-station.com

Have a look at this wonderful design and browse through the content sections. Frozen Donkey Software uses for this website a content management system called "koobi" and modified some modules for the swtor-station team.

SWToR Station is a partner project of Two Pi Team / Wheel of Games and Frozen Donkey Software.

Back to the Roots?

Let's talk about browsergame concepts. Ok ignore the 3D Action Shooter of Bigpoint and go to the tradionel strategy browsergame. What do we have in this genre?

• 5 million versions of a "medieval-create-your-own-villageand-destroy-all-other-players"-game.
• 6 billion versions of a "space-create-your-own-universe-and-destroy-all-other-players"-game.
• Some cool versions of a mix the first and second point in this list.
• Some boring "economy-strategy-simulations-build-your-own-company-or-whateva" games

But seriously, what kind of games need the today-browsergame-player? Simple answer, let's look at the past of the "real" computer games. It's 2009 and I still love to play sim city (est. 1993!) or commandos (1998). Everyone who have seen the new GUI of the Innogames "die Stämme", knows that it is possible to create browsergames with high-qualy graphics such as used in the classic pc games. What could be cooler as a simcity 2000 version that could be played by every position / desktop in this world without installing any software? Nothing!

Look at the past of dekstop games and you could see the future of browsergames.

FD Software will be there, too ;)

FIRST!!!! or what is the success of a web project

The Internet.... A cool place for cool people from cool locations around the world.
Some people of these cool people are a little bit cooler than the others. These extra cool people have made their passion to a workplace. I am talking about people like Ricky van Veen (Founder of collegehumor.com) or Mark Zuckerberg (founder of facebook) which both just wanted to get some extra money for beer and have created website with millions of unique users every month. But what is the success of these projects?

I think the thing about success in the internet is simply one term:

Time

Have the right idea to the right time,
start a project at the right time,
meet the right people at the right time.

That means, if you have a great idea for a web project, first check if somebody else already had have this idea and when is not a new idea check for the current status of the project.
Nobody wants another internet movie database. Nobody wants another twitter. Nobody wants another wikipedia. Because all of these projects have something in common. It is Succuess! Why are these projects successfull? scroll to the top of this post and you can read it.

Ok next thing about that. I have a good idea. I know that i am the first with this idea or the other projects with this theme are so f*cking bad that every user loves to get a alternative project about this idea. The only problem about my new project is one of the time factors. Well i got the idea and i want to start the project at the right time, but still i need to meet the right people for this. People with special skills, people that have great web skills, people that could create websites and everything around this just by wachting a sketch from a slip of paper. People that could feel a website. People like the Staff of Frozen Donkey Software.