WWWest-Online Development Blog

For many people, when they think of the Wild West, they think of the Gold Rush. But the thing is, there wasn’t just the one gold rush, but rather several separate, sometimes overlapping rushes to different locations where gold had been found in large quantities: the Georgia Gold Rush, the Colorado Gold Rush (aka the Pike’s Peak Gold Rush), the California Gold Rush, the Klondike Gold Rush. And that’s just a few of them.

The California Gold Rush started with a whisper in early 1848, when James W. Marshal, a carpenter at Sutter’s Mill (a sawmill being built in Coloma) found traces of gold. Read the rest of this entry »

With games, different people have different goals. I don’t only mean multiplayer games, but rather computer games in general. Even thinking back on the adventure games of old, I remember how my friends and I tackled them differently. Most of my friends, when faced with a game, usually tackled it in a rather straightforward manner, with the sole goal of finishing it. I, however, was usually the odd man out, and wanted to explore the game as much as possible (I’d give examples, but that would probably take about 3 more paragraphs…). Read the rest of this entry »

Wow, it’s a been a while since my last post. During that time we’ve made a lot of progress with our knowledge base, and now I’m gonna tell you a bit more about it. So, as the song goes, let’s start at the very beginning.

WWWest-Online is set in the American Old West, more commonly known as “The Wild West”, so the first thing we had to do when we started work on our knowledge base was to delimit it to that era. The Wild West, we soon found out, was a bit tricky to box in, since its start and end are a bit hazy. What I did find, however, was that as a general rule, the Wild West era is considered to have spanned most the second half of the 19th century. Though several years before and after that time are still considered to be “Wild West”, that was how we decided to delimit it, and that’s why we decided on 1845-1895: we took those years and added a few before and after them, for some surrounding backstory.

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Hello again everyone.

It’s been a while since our last update, but it’s high time we got this show back on the road. When it comes to this blog, the last year has been a quiet one, for several reasons. We’ve already mentioned that for most of us working on this project, WWWest-Online is something we’re doing in our free time, and quite often the demands and realities of real life take precedence. And though we haven’t let silly things like our jobs and such keep us from actually working on the project, I have to admit we have let them affect our priorities, and most of the time spent working on WWWest-Online was spent doing design or code work, and we kept putting off the “writing about it” part, and for that we apologize.

So what have we been up to? Read the rest of this entry »