PoKéQuesT

Joining the collaboration efforts of PoKéQuesT is PokéVenture.  Right now, the only thing known about the collaboration efforts between PokéTankyuu and PokéVenture is the possible sharing of the PKQST Protocol.

I would also like to welcome Raz to the team.  He will help with mapping on the project.

That’s all for now.

I am very sorry about accidentally deleting the blog here.  The blog has been restored, as well as the posts that I could recover from my hard drive.  The older posts didn’t matter that much anyway. 

Right now I’m trying to get pokequest.gtaero.net fixed and pointing to the blog instead of redirecting to the “new site”.  This will take some time.

I hope to have this working properly by tomorrow.

What happened to our website? Click Here.

The protocol is undergoing an extensive rewrite while everything is offline.  We are preparing version 0.4 of the protocol, which when looked at will actually make a lot more sense than version 0.3 did.

Version 0.4 is being written by myself and PlasmaFox.  It will also end all compatibility with version 0.3 of the protocol (sorry guys).

This protocol should minimize bandwidth usage and make reading/writing it easy.

What happened to the website? Click Here!

You may or may not have noticed the new little tiny donation “widget” by Chip In.  We tried this once before with little to no success, but we’re trying it again.

Here is the current financial standpoint of PoKéQuesT:

• PoKéQuesT has generated $48.83 from Google Advertisements on the website.
• Projects similar to PoKéQuesT have raised this to about $50.00
• I have $76.19 ($18.63 from personal blogs, leaving PoKéQuesT and canceled related projects having earned $57.56 that will ALL go into PoKéQuesT).
• I plan to get a job soon to help pay for a lot of PoKéQuesT out of my own pocket.  No more relying on “friends”.
• PoKéQuesT is in need of a DEDICATED Server.  We have found a good deal on one, priced at $99/m.
• We are asking for donation to power the server.  These donations will not be garnished as wages by any PoKéQuesT Team Member, they will be used solely for the purpose of a dedicated server.
• The “Fund Raising Limit” we have placed on the account is $1,200.  (The equivalent of an approximate year of dedicated hosting) [$100*12].  This should hopefully include several PayPal fees, if not, they’ll come out of my personal pocket.

Now, we are asking people to donate, and for good reason, we need the money to make the experience better for our users.  In order to give our users direct incentive back for their thought-fullness to the project, we are willing to give them some early extras.  Things that would not normally be in the first version of our game.

Users that donate $20 or more (by some oddity) will be given a special “Donators” user type in the game.  (Yes, the first “special” user type as specified in the PKQST Protocol documentation).

Users that donate $50 or more (by some rare oddity) will be able to give us their own, custom Sprite for use in-game.*

With your help in getting a dedicated server, we will not only be able to continue PoKéQuesT production at a rapid pace, but we will also be able to do more than we previously planned for our users.  We’ll be able to expand and add more services for the PoKéQuesT community.

Please help us, and if you do, thank you for your support.

* Custom Sprites are limited to the approval of PoKéQuesT.  A custom sprite may not contain any curse words or inappropriate language or images.  If you submit one of these, we will notify you that it does not meet our approval and allow you to resubmit a new one.  If that one does not meet our approval standards, you will not receive your custom sprite for use in game.  So, its all good unless you want your sprite to be lewd, graphic, or inappropriate for a PG-13 audience.  [Racism, Sexism, Religionism, Nazism, will not be tolerated].

I would like to greatly thank PPN Steve for publishing our story and pointing our users here.

For those of you who recently went online to view our old website [URL of which will no longer be posted] you may have noticed a rather weird message saying that PoKéQuesT was dead for a few reasons.

For those of you who may think that this blog was hacked, there are at least six ways to tell that the new website was not created by PoKéQuesT.

1. PoKéQuesT is always programmed using the newest technologies.  If you looked at the source of the “new site” and compared it to the old source of labs, you’d see a vast difference.  Labs had an XML opening tag, and declared an XHTML 1.1 + SVG + MathML 2.0, as you can see, the “new site” is using “XHTML 1.0 Transitional” <– eww.
2. PoKéQuesT’s self-made pages are always written using UTF-8 technology.  If you look at the source of the “new site” you can see that they are declaring a charset of ISO-8859-1, the common Windows character set.
3. The title is left as “Untitled Document”, saying that it was probably generated by something.  Have we set a <title> tag with “Untitled Document”?  I mean really, who the hell does that?
4. The “RIP” states that the start date is in 2007.  Well, Labs was in 2007, but hell, the domain itself was registered in 2006, and PoKéQuesT took place at least a year or two before that! (The General idea, originally called PokémonIRC)
5. The “new site” is signed by someone called “The Sensei”.  I have never been “The Sensei”, I’m PokéSensei.
6. The “new site” has incorrectly formatted the name of the project, writing it as “PokéQuesT” instead of “PoKéQuesT”.  Note the capital K in the second sample.

If you need to contact me, drop a line at Navarr@gtaero.net

Somehow I managed to delete the blog.. I’ll try to get all of the posts that I can rummage back up.

So sorry everyone ._.;;