As you are all well aware, I haven’t been here that often since the website died twice. Honestly, I was fairly depressed about the whole thing. The last time a website killed itself that I was running, it soon fell apart. But I have constantly received messages from the active members that you still want this place to continue, and for that reason I will get it back to where it was. After that, I will be asking for help from you guys to help move it beyond that to where it can be.
Regarding Ryan and his plans for video games and whatnot, he has taken that side of the team and formed Saving Point Media. That is the name by which our official, non-parody things will go under so that we do not get in trouble with copyright. Our main goal is to release two video games right now (dubbed Projects Throwback and Memoir), and as details that I can actually share and have a conversation about are made available to me I will talk about them both here and there (the site for Saving Point will be at http://www.savingpointmedia.com). It probably will not be ready this year, but there will be things to show and talk about. I want to emphasize that neither of our projects are merely vaporware. Much has already been done in both projects (Memoir has a complete story structure and plan, while Throwback has that and many assets sitting in folders waiting for their use).
Now, as far as Gaming Parodies, I want to continue the basic plan that we were going on before the old site died a horrible painful death. As we are more focused on parody, we will be releasing our regular dubs and side projects under this banner. With the coming of HTML 5, we will be more able to release podcasts and videos on our site without too much work. People will be encouraged to upload things to our site who aren’t official members of the teams, so we can try to raise up a larger user base. Many other things can also be done under this banner, and I hope that we can get serious action towards that direction.
Also, regarding the site itself, I am very close to giving up on WordPress and switching back to what we had. The problem with being the coder and the one who makes decisions is that I only see the backend, and think about what I can tweak. You saw what the site had, all I saw were the limits. If you want to use PHPBB as our management system, just say the word. I’m ready to get that back up, with the theme that we had. That takes a bit of tweaking and relearning, but it’s not incredibly difficult.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. I would love to get some feedback and more ideas for what this site can be.