Well, I'm sure you've seen the new site design. ;) We've been working on this for a bit, and it's the first time we've done a major upgrade to the site since it was first launched. I'll explain the way we've upgraded it in the following paragraphs.

    1. We upgraded the theme. The old site theme was beginning to look a bit jumbled, non-professional, and quite frankly, hard on the eyes. The new theme is much more smooth and streamlined. We also updated the logo to the site.

    2. We updated many layouts on the site. Beforehand, our site was very boring. No images, barely any color, etc. This was due to our attempts to make a professional-looking site. Unfortunately, we were so concerned about making our site look more and more professional that it ended up being so boring. We re-worked the games and projects section of the site, giving it a nicer-looking and better layout. With the games, we've included a preview screenshot, as well as basic info about the games, the status of their development, links to any related sites, as well as a link to download it if a download is available.

    3. We updated the Help Us Out page so it's a bit more, what we call, candidate-friendly. It no longer requires you to look through a bunch of lines of text to just find the one position you're looking for. We may add a search box to give you the ability to look for a specific position. We also formatted the appearance of the text as well.

    4. We've reworked the downloads page to be mainly for everything except games. We've also modified the appearance a bit. However, we have kept the original game downloads on this page as well as on the Games page, and we will continue to do so.

    5. We've redone the community page. This gives us the opportunity to save you the trouble of going here and there looking for links to our community sites.

    6. We've also updated some minor things as we saw fit.

    We also have plans to create a better, more helpful Voluntary QA page. These plans include putting more useful tools into your hands.

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    Game-wise, we have a couple of updates. I feel it has been a long enough wait. THE LONG-AWAITED TITLE OF PROJECT PHEONIX IS.... Ilxder: The Adventure Begins! As I've mentioned before, there are plans for a sequel, so I decided to go with a per-se franchise name of "The Ilxder Series". I also got tired of people telling me that Pheonix was misspelled. ;) (Also, considering that phoenixes don't have a whole lot of place in the plot of The Adventure Begins, it seemed a better idea to NOT keep the name of Project Pheonix) Here's a bit more news about The Adventure Begins - although there's quite a bit to be done before the 1.0 release, we will probably only release one more demo before 1.0! :) Thank you all for your support over the past two years - it's all about to pay off. :)

    We also have our teams working on another pretty large project. I'm not revealing many details, as we want it to be a surprise. :) However, I will say this - if everything works out as planned, it will be the biggest project we've completed yet. ;)

    I've temporarily delayed any further development with Ancient Palace until I sort out the teams a little differently.

    I'm personally working on another project with Zach. All I'll say about it is that it takes place in space. ;)

    Bringing up an old idea: Gamini Games. Although we're holding onto the name and the rights, we've decided to just post any of our games on our own game section here on our current main site. We may even redo the games and projects section completely to look more like a games portal.

    We hope to create some browser-based games at some point. Although we currently have no plans to make them extremely big, we might have them created so there could be 8-16 player tournament modes! :)

    Well, that's all for now! I hope you enjoy the new site, and watch this space for any more behind-the-scenes updates! :)