As this is a new Adventure and a new site format, I also see some new staff members who we do not know and have not had the years of sharing with we have with the current staff. I am hopeful as many of the current staff continue doing the wonderful work they have been so long and faithfullly done. In that spirit, I would welcome hearing from the new provisional staff members, what your backgrounds are as far as adventure game experience, preferences, likes and disllikes, internet experience in general , other modding and admin work you may have done, and the like. As usaul we don't need any personal details that is private and your own business but our communty here has thrived as long and as much as it has becuase Randy and our communty have respected and supported our shared love of ADVENTURE games, and the Adventure game genre from its start to the present. There are many other game genres but this forum and this site supports and is for ADVENTURE games ......and that is its long history and traddition and why we are all here. Thanks for sharing with us and we look forward to hearing from you.

I want to reiterate this is a friendly invitation, not an inquisition. I respect and hope for the best from the new staff members being brought in, we have a strong and warm community here, and have for many years enjoyed the finest in coverage and support for games of all knds but most specficially adventure games and the adventure game genre. The internet is a wonderful open and democratic forum that greatly facilitates sharing across many boundaries. One of the most interesitng features of the net and forums like this one that we enjoy here is that people from all walks of life and backgrounds can connect and communicate about topics that they find of common interest, and this forum and forums like this greatly help that sharing.  Use of mods and admins is a great help to keeping this sharing flowing and workable....  and I hope for the best from the new hands.  It is important for the mutual respect that enhances that sharing for those who are in authority in a group like this to be known at least by forum name, and to be experienced and chosen for that role for such experience, for it is a demanding task and one that is greatly aided by skills on the technical side as well as the people side.

And above all, trasnparency and openness help for it makes us feel included and part of a continuing commuinity that we have ourselves created through our posts and sharing over many years now. It is that shared fellowship that has created this fine site and the rich resources around adveture games that few other forums and sites can rival. I hope to see all that continue and would like to welcome to our sharng the new "faces" hence this thread and this invitation.

Chris, why be so limiting?  Inquisitions are fun!  All that shouting of "Heretic!" and "Witch!", all those hangings and burnings upon stakes, political machinations and above all the corruption and hypocrisy hanging in the air like a London pea-souper while men of ill-begotten power grind their opponents in the dust and wax poetic in bass voices about justifications for wholely evil acts.  Ah, I love Verdi---though Don Carlos didn't have any shouting or hanging, but burning at the stake was suggested, which is pretty fantastic.

Seriously, though, some introductions would definitely be nice!  It's always better to be able to put faces to names, as it were---or even just names to background actors.  No one really wants to be known as merely "Royal Herald", after all.  Sure, his name might have been something dinky like Horace Worblehat or utterly incredible like Kris Kristofferson or---better yet---Benedict Cumberbatch, but I suspect his name could just as easily been something as typical and approachable as Bob, and I bet he could solve complex logic puzzles in no time flat.  There's no way to know unless he says hi, though.  

You know, I think it might be time I got some sleep...  

Oi, JKing... haven't you learnt the golden rule yet of not posting NEVER EVER post when you've had a few drinks too many or if you're on flu medication or something.  What are you spaced out on, man!  I hope you haven't been smoking something...

Nevermind, I suppose you'll be feeling quite sheepish enough in the morning... 

Anyway, all I care about is that our old webmisstress Karla is still amongst the staff.  Since JA-STAFF3 is stil here, I sincerely hope so.  As long as our old staff stays, I don't care how many new people appear, as long as they, like Chris says, have some regard for our long history and tradition here at the forum.  

Originally Posted By JKing

Chris, why be so limiting?  Inquisitions are fun!  All that shouting of "Heretic!" and "Witch!", all those hangings and burnings upon stakes, political machinations and above all the corruption and hypocrisy hanging in the air like a London pea-souper while men of ill-begotten power grind their opponents in the dust and wax poetic in bass voices about justifications for wholely evil acts.  Ah, I love Verdi---though Don Carlos didn't have any shouting or hanging, but burning at the stake was suggested, which is pretty fantastic.

 

Seriously, though, some introductions would definitely be nice!  It's always better to be able to put faces to names, as it were---or even just names to background actors.  No one really wants to be known as merely "Royal Herald", after all.  Sure, his name might have been something dinky like Horace Worblehat or utterly incredible like Kris Kristofferson or---better yet---Benedict Cumberbatch, but I suspect his name could just as easily been something as typical and approachable as Bob, and I bet he could solve complex logic puzzles in no time flat.  There's no way to know unless he says hi, though.  

 

You know, I think it might be time I got some sleep...  

The silence is deafening!

Burn the heretic. Kill the mutant. Purge the unclean.

Good thing you are called HellSpawn and not ChaosSpawn. Such a statement would not sit well with certain beings

I am Spartacus the new owner

Hello Everyone!

Sorry for the late reply. We've been swamped working out kinks on the new design, making improvements & trying to get ready to launch the new store. I think some of this has been addressed in other threads, but here are a few more bits regarding the new staff. 

I personally have been around the adventure game scene for many years, lets call it 15+. Some of my favorite games are The Longest Journey, Runaway & Syberia. 

TheOrc has been around adventure games since the good old days of Zork, I know the Space Quest series were some of his favorites.

JamesDee loves the Kings Quest series. 

DrewG & Support are here mainly for programming & general support for the site. I really dont know their favorite adventure games - Guys please chime in when you have a chance.

Karla as you all know is our resident expert in the adventure genre. Randy, Karla & all of the other wonderful moderators & community members have made this site & forum what it is today and we have no intentions of trying to change that. Here's to the next adventure & many, many more to come! 

Caroline buys a HUGELY expensive chocolate cake to send to the forum's new owners as a thankyou greeting.  However she discovers that the process of turning real chocolate into virtual chocolate in a digital format that the internet can transport is rather longer and more complicated (not to mention messier) than she imagined.   Several hours and lots of nibbles later, she finally gets the settings right and dispatches some digitized calorie-free chocolate to Digitize.  

Hope you like it! 

Sweet Caroline, BA, BA, BA - Chocolate never tastes so good! Now if I could just conjure up a big glass of milk. Love it! Thank you.

Digitize, thank you so much for the intro and it is good to meet you and thanks indeed for keeping this, our beloved adaventure game home site, alive, Randy was a wonderful "father" and Karla and the rest of the veteran staff are wonderful and have made miracles happen for our venerable site and forum. We look forward to hearing more from the new folks, we are all shy in our own ways so there is no hurry. thanks again for the hello.

We will remain hopefull too that the wonderful content will return or continue and that news will be as focused as possible. thanks again.