Gameslate v5 Beta
As planned, I’m releasing my complete redesign and recode of Gameslate today.
I completely underestimated the effect of the current heatwave on my productivity. My poor little air conditioner is working overtime and still my brain feels like it’s melting. So I’m releasing what I’ve got so far as Beta and I’ll be updating it steadily until it’s complete. I won’t be stopping there either, because there are a lot of things (more web-games in particular) that I’d like to develop with Gameslate.
Right now, the current status is Gates Motel isn’t playable, but the core part of the site and its UI are functional. It’s probably only of interest to existing Gameslate users until I get the game working of course. =)
I expect there will be a slow trickle of users coming into the new Gameslate. I’d neglected the old site for so long the logins had seriously slowed down. I’m optimistic however, “build it and they will come” and all that.
A nice feature would be “forgot password” … after upgrading to Firefox 3.5, I lost my saved login to Gameslate and I can’t remember my login/pwd to save my life.
Did logins migrate or is re-registering in order?
Logins are migrated automatically if you try to login with the same name + password. You can choose to re-register, but if you do that you won’t have the option to migrate or claim ‘oldschool’ status.
I haven’t finished the password retrieval system yet. I’ll just manually send a password reminder to you JD.