PoKéQuesT

I’m back to working on the newest website.  None of which is currently visible to you right now.

Right now, I’m working hard on adding visual effects and making the layout.  So far, its 100% cross-browser compatible.  Including Opera, FireFox, Safari, and Internet Explorer (7).

If you are still running IE6, please, do us a favor and upgrade to IE7.  PoKéQuesT’s website may never be useable for you if you don’t.

Those running FireFox or Opera, stay the course.  Both are great browsers.

Those running Safari.. yeah, it’ll work for now.  I don’t know about later though.  The WebKit engine is not a big priority for me.

As for development on PoKéQuesT itself, I haven’t heard from our new developer in awhile.  I’m going to query Inaki about what’s going on server-side.  It is school time for pretty much everybody on the team though.  Yuki hasn’t even been online in forever, and our graphics designer’s Zayn and Seffy have been busy.

We’re in a little bit of a slum, but, I think we’re still doing good.  We’re advancing a little bit with the website; whereas P:DoA is not doing anything, and POL’s website doesn’t even work.

We’re going to try to keep up the hard work.  Our team really needs to get their act together.

For those of you who remember the “Dead Pikachu Incident of 2007″ and the pkqst.com domain name, we may be getting that back when it expires, which ironically enough is the same day as my 2 year anniversary with my girlfriend, Carla.  She’s pretty supportive of the project.

Well, it seems that there has been a steady decline of activity for all Pokémon MMOs, not just ours, making me feel a heck of a lot better if I may say so myself.

The main programmer of Pokémon Online has lost his computer to a storm (poor dude) and I’ve been (unofficially) told by a team member that they are not releasing updates often because people get upset for the lack of things in the updates.

Shame, they really should write a blog or something to keep those who care up to date constantly.

PlasmaFox has not been working on the client for awhile; all work there is constantly on hold as we try to get a good Windows Development Environment so that he can work on the client for Windows and not just Linux/Macintosh (that way we don’t need to work all the way back from the beginning of the client).

As for the website; I have most definitely not been working on it lately.  I’m sorry; but school is coming up soon for me as well, and there is currently a lot on my plate (family stuff).

We are still no closer to getting a dedicated server (other than the $5 that are thanks to that very special person.), but we hope to continue to raise up enough possibly with the advertisements, and a possible job (that I may or may not get) to pay for a server.

As for users; we are losing the amount of members that are paying attention constantly.  Probably a large amount saw the website set up by our old domain name’s owner and said “screw it” without even googling PoKéQuesT to double check.

So, this is where we currently are.  Maybe we will be able to get some more work done soon.  I’ll try to work on the website as soon as I can.

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.