Yawn...!!! (stretch!)

[yellowdaddy]

Has anything happened during my Rip Van Winkle-like slumber?

...seems like the cobwebs have grown over the last year...

anybody there (anbody there (((echo))) )??!

[Mark_Everson]

Hi yellowdaddy, good to hear from you again. I'd been hoping that things being a little bit dead around here wouldn't show.

In a nutshell, I decided that I needed much more RL at the expense of Clash. The coding had pretty much died down to only Laurent at that point. He kept plugging away and accomplishing quite a lot, but eventually got a new job where he didn't have time to work on Clash. A bit before that I had gotten a bit addicted to CIV, and took a long break Playing games rather than trying to design them.

I think that we are at a point where a few part-time coders and artists could produce enough new stuff to re-kindle interest in Clash, and start things moving forward again. Hopefully that will happen. I'm certainly happy to participate in an advisory and knowledge-transfer fashion. However, I'm enjoying my RL too much to go back to the tens of hours a week I was spending on Clash at its peak in team participation and game progress.

Best regards,

Mark