We Create Stuff blog

We’re happy to finally announce, the new boards are finally up. This is a step out of quite a few we’re going to perform in We Create Stuff. The new boards integrates with the rest of We Create Stuff. Not fully just yet, but soon, it will also connect to our blog, and in the future, with our games and apps launched on here.

The new boards offer a reputations system, better management, easier access to different content, meaningful profiles (for a change), and they even support old style links if you still have old Portal TFV threads fav’d

Isnt this way better?

Aside from being pettier and easier to use, it’s the first hint to our new agenda for creative projects. We will post more about this in the coming months. For now, hit the boards!

Further information for existing users can be found in this topic.

Heya!

I think it’s time to push the April fools posts down, and as well keep you guys up to date on what we’re working on. We’ve got lotsa stuff planned in the following weeks, and we sure hope you’ll like it.

First off, some of you may have noticed the front page is going through some redesigns. These changes are made in order to expand the theme of WCS to the rest of the website. This means, eventually, this blog and the forums too will have the same sleek look of the front page. Oh and the forums will be upgraded: PHPBB2 did a fine job for the past year or so, and it’s time to move on.

Projects-wise, both Echoes and Nightmare House 2 projects are going well! Echoes is gonna get its website set up real soon, so be sure to read around. NH2’s website is also gonna get an update, as it is rather outdated at the moment. Meanwhile, Hen told me to put this up:

Nightmare House 2. yarrr, wat the eff ey?

Additionally for being under attack by They Create Stuff, our friend Koolfox decided it’s the best time to raise up our moral. This is a single “Ka-Boom – Autistic Edition” by Koolfox, based on his project posted around here, Rocking Fortress.

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I spy!

Earlier today it looked like just another quiet night at We Create Stuff’s territory, until They arrived. First report came in at 2:22 am, when a tripod-like machine landed close to North We Create Stuff. Armed with their own ‘Stuff’, ‘They’ have invaded, and our forces are taking heavy casualties these very moments defending our land. Casualties from the other side are also reported to be big.

Countries all over the world are criticizing They Create Stuff’s sudden attack. “What the hell are you talking about?” — The Planet customer service, right before a sudden disconnection. Koolfox added: “AFK auto email: I’m off for the week, leave me fucking be, Ido.” Indeed, the reporters are shocked as well.

The following map drawn in the last minute describes the situation more closely:

They Create Stuff invade

We recommend everybody to stay calm. Unless They start winning. May god help us all.

Howdy boys and girls. I’m here to confirm and report some awesome news, so ready your 100% pure orange juice and toast with me.

Remember Hen’s Portal: The Flash Version Mappack? I know I do! It’s the Mappack we released based on Portal: The Flash Version – taking all the puzzles from the Flash version back to the 3D Portal world!

Last E3 Valve announced a new title, ‘Portal: Still Alive’. After wetting many Portal fans pants, they have confirmed this is not ‘Portal 2′. But hey, they later on confirmed it’s gonna feature our Mappack, so they wet my pants!

Next – here’s a tease from We Create Stuff’s next Flash game.

One last thing. Join our Facebook group, it’s full of awesomeness. I approve.

Howdy people! We’ve got some exciting news – Our very own Portal: The Flash Version was nominated for the Best Web Game of 2007 at Zeebys’ Second Annual Casual Game Awards 2008.

This is awesome by itself, but it doesn’t end here. We still have till around July 11th to vote for it to win the award! So stop reading this, and follow this link:

Our game is in the ninth category: Web Game. You’ll have to vote through the rest of the categories – but worry not! It shouldn’t take more than a minute. In the end of the process you will need to confirm the voting.

You guys have no idea how grateful we are for your support Thank you!

So after about a year of using the simplest front page in the world, we’ve decided we want something sleek and new. And it’s finally up – so let’s hear it for We Create Stuff (front page) version 2!

Let me bring up some memories of how We Create Stuff first came up:

Yup,  this is how it started. Ahh, good times.

And in other news, we’ve got a nice little guest project up – Rocking Fortress! It’s a Team Fortress 2 music compilation album, with 13 songs using TF2’s vocals and sounds and two more bonus songs. Very cool stuff, so go check it out by clicking on the album cover below!

Awesome stuff indeed.

One afternoon, my friend Erez (aka fullmetalboy) said to me over Steam that our website doesn’t show any press and media about our spread. So eventually I thought he had a point, so here’s a post about it. I didn’t wanna go too far with it, so I thought just a blog post would do.

So first, lemme mention a nice interview we had with Jesse from GameCyte just a couple of days ago. So here’s a link

Last Thursday I was at the presidential conference Facing Tomorrow 2008, with some guys from Startup Seeds. I was pretty much the only game developer on there, but it was indeed interesting and fun. Here I am, talking about PTFV (taken by Segev Shilton):

And since we’re going backwards on time here, this one’s from about a month ago. This is from GameIS 2008. We were invited as game developers, and also they gave me a couple of minutes as a speaker on the independent game development panel.

Funny story, for those of you who don’t know – I know Hen for more than 4 years, and that was the first time I actually saw him. So we first met only after making a 5 million games played Flash game, as ‘known’ game developers. Our requirements are quite high, hah!

So it was cool indeed. The true awesomeness though, was at the end of the event, when we won a game developer award – myeah!

Anyway, we met some awesome people on there!

The rest of the stuff are either in Hebrew or too intense for you kids.

Hey, Hen here!

So lately I’ve been working on a Portal mappack, for the original Portal – based on Portal: The Flash Version maps! I’m pretty much done, and I need people to test my maps before the release.

The beta testing includes following instructions and filling out a form of feedback while playing. Anyone who is interested please email me – henmazolski [at] gmail [dot] com . And here’s a little sneak peak:

Thanks!

UPDATE: Ok guys the beta is closed for new people, thanks to everyone who participated.

Well, we figured this would work better than the old News/Announcements forum, so there you go. It is much easier for us to post through this, and we hope it will be much easier for you guys to track our stuff through here as well.

We’ll be posting about the development of our projects, releases, and other news around here. Any feedback about the functionality of this blog please send to me on the contact e-mail, placed on the bottom of this page.

Hen already has something big coming out probably this weekend, so stay tuned!