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Jul
01
Letter from the Co-Lead
by Navarr
Does it feel like this month moved too quickly to anyone else? We’re closing out the second quarter and it’s time to review our goal.
I think we managed to do fairly well. There was a lot of positive feedback on the forums - albeit also some negative. Most of the negative feedback focused on some interesting specifics of opening up information on ban appeals and other such things. I’m sad to say that we can’t currently fulfill those desires, but it is a takeaway that I’ll keep in mind for the far future. On several fronts the staff have been encouraged to communicate with the community and I’ve definitely seen some of that occurring. I hope we can continue this forward pace of community feedback and increased openness as we move forward.
That said, we’re bringing a new theme into focus - and this quarter it’s Community Interaction. We want to spend more time communicating with, playing with, and otherwise having a blast with our community. There are a few ways we’re going to go about this:
In addition to Gold Rush, the big pieces of our roadmap this quarter are 1.12.2 support - there’s only a couple other high priority tasks in front of it and I hope we can resolve those soon - and we’re hoping to release MineZ Origins Part II before the end of the year.
On that note - please let me know how you think we did in regards to our focus of increased transparency in the last quarter - and also let me know what kind of staff interaction events you want to see in the coming months!
That’s all for now - and as always, thank you for flying Shotbow.
![[IMG]](https://i.imgur.com/FXrKQ6A.png)
Hey guys, this is Mistri. Thanks for reading this month's edition of Dentril's New Moon! Please enjoy
Updates
SMASH Updates
This month, the SMASH Team has been working on redecorating the lobby in celebration of Independence Day in the USA.
Also, a new Media Map (Event Map) has been added to SMASH: Ice Rink! Stay tuned on the Shotbow Twitter and Discord if you want to participate in SMASH events!
MineZ Updates
The new location Torchbar has been added to MineZ. Keep up to date with all the MineZ changes which we post in the official MineZ Update Changelog!
Gold Rush Updates
Lots of development work went into Gold Rush this month, and we held multiple playtests with active Emeralds, Obsidians, and subscribers. A stream of one playtest was recorded and uploaded here:
If you would like to participate in the next exclusive Gold Rush test, purchase subscriber or upgrade your rank to Emerald or Obsidian in the Shotbow Shop!
Statistics
SMASH Rankings
The 2018 Spring season has just finished, and the results are in:
Mine Theft Auto
MTA Leaderboards for June 2018
Combat:
Staff updates:
What can I do?
Play on Shotbow, invite your friends, and invite their friends! Make friends and invite them to Shotbow! Spread the word about our amazing games, and in return we'll work as hard as we can to make your experience the best it can possibly be.
Developer Corner
By Navarr
Hi all, Navarr here! I did a less than stellar job of being on top of the developers this month for updates. As such, we don’t have a lot of juicy goodness for you to read. That said, here’s the reports I got:
Robertthegoat
Robert spent his time this month working on Gold Rush and participating in the development stream. He also worked on a couple secret items that we hope to reveal to you in gameplay within the next couple quarters.
DocCodeSharp
Doc spent a lot of this month working on infrastructure projects such as tackling issues with servers coming online and modernizing our deployment stack. In addition, he continued his work on refactoring the MineZ codebase for performance, stability, and general bugfixing purposes.
Skillerfox3
Skiller continued his work on Gold Rush this month, including some initial work on balancing general gameplay. You’ve heard Murg refer to a large issue of “snowballing” where when one team is in the lead it becomes far too difficult to take it from them - this is one of those core balancing issues we’ll be focusing on both before and during the alpha testing phases. Skiller also worked on some admin tooling - improving our staff’s lives so we can improve your experience in the games.
And that’s all I have! I hope to tell you more next month, but until then - this is Navarr signing off!
With that, I bid you farewell. I'm your host, Mistri. Please let us know what you think about the New Moon in the comments. We love to hear your feedback!
by Navarr
Does it feel like this month moved too quickly to anyone else? We’re closing out the second quarter and it’s time to review our goal.
I think we managed to do fairly well. There was a lot of positive feedback on the forums - albeit also some negative. Most of the negative feedback focused on some interesting specifics of opening up information on ban appeals and other such things. I’m sad to say that we can’t currently fulfill those desires, but it is a takeaway that I’ll keep in mind for the far future. On several fronts the staff have been encouraged to communicate with the community and I’ve definitely seen some of that occurring. I hope we can continue this forward pace of community feedback and increased openness as we move forward.
That said, we’re bringing a new theme into focus - and this quarter it’s Community Interaction. We want to spend more time communicating with, playing with, and otherwise having a blast with our community. There are a few ways we’re going to go about this:
- We’re working with the development team to make the Anni Sandbox available so we can start having regular Annihilation events again - even before the end of the tournament
- It is our goal to release Gold Rush this quarter into a restricted alpha. During this intensive testing phase, our staff team will be playing and looking for a lot of feedback.
- I hope to have at least one live Q&A in the Discord this quarter - and I look forward to fielding your questions - hopefully alongside my partner Murgatron - at least once
In addition to Gold Rush, the big pieces of our roadmap this quarter are 1.12.2 support - there’s only a couple other high priority tasks in front of it and I hope we can resolve those soon - and we’re hoping to release MineZ Origins Part II before the end of the year.
On that note - please let me know how you think we did in regards to our focus of increased transparency in the last quarter - and also let me know what kind of staff interaction events you want to see in the coming months!
That’s all for now - and as always, thank you for flying Shotbow.
Hey guys, this is Mistri. Thanks for reading this month's edition of Dentril's New Moon! Please enjoy
Updates
SMASH Updates
This month, the SMASH Team has been working on redecorating the lobby in celebration of Independence Day in the USA.
Also, a new Media Map (Event Map) has been added to SMASH: Ice Rink! Stay tuned on the Shotbow Twitter and Discord if you want to participate in SMASH events!
MineZ Updates
The new location Torchbar has been added to MineZ. Keep up to date with all the MineZ changes which we post in the official MineZ Update Changelog!
Gold Rush Updates
Lots of development work went into Gold Rush this month, and we held multiple playtests with active Emeralds, Obsidians, and subscribers. A stream of one playtest was recorded and uploaded here:
If you would like to participate in the next exclusive Gold Rush test, purchase subscriber or upgrade your rank to Emerald or Obsidian in the Shotbow Shop!
Statistics
SMASH Rankings
The 2018 Spring season has just finished, and the results are in:
- 1st - _BrightDarkness_ - 10,000 XP
- 2nd - Jiren_ - 7,500 XP
- 3rd - Mr_L115 - 5,000 XP
Mine Theft Auto
MTA Leaderboards for June 2018
Combat:
- 1st - iinsu KDR: 66:0 (66.0)
- 2nd - The556 KDR: 65:0 (65.0)
- 3rd - Wafuuu KDR: 29:0 (29.0)
- 1st - AVAchqn Arrests: 93.0
- 2nd - iinsu Arrests: 57.0
- 3rd - Groover0321 Arrests: 32.0
- 1st - Lil_Klorroxxx Experience gained: 28972.0
- 2nd - nanacoro Experience gained: 26718.0
- 3rd - MESLEG Experience gained: 25666.0
- 1st - Deviant_Android Minigames won: 85.0
- 2nd - nanacoro Minigames won: 73.0
- 3rd - Groover0321 Minigames won: 56.0
Staff updates:
- Carrots386 was promoted to GG Co-Lead
- DJ_Pedro joined the Full Admin team
- Pinefrost64 rejoined the Full Builder team
- Mistri joined the GG Mini Admin team
- A total of 70,516,496 XP was earned by players this month
- There were 3,339 players banned in the last month
- This month we achieved a peak playercount of 638 on June 10
What can I do?
Play on Shotbow, invite your friends, and invite their friends! Make friends and invite them to Shotbow! Spread the word about our amazing games, and in return we'll work as hard as we can to make your experience the best it can possibly be.
Developer Corner
By Navarr
Hi all, Navarr here! I did a less than stellar job of being on top of the developers this month for updates. As such, we don’t have a lot of juicy goodness for you to read. That said, here’s the reports I got:
Robertthegoat
Robert spent his time this month working on Gold Rush and participating in the development stream. He also worked on a couple secret items that we hope to reveal to you in gameplay within the next couple quarters.
DocCodeSharp
Doc spent a lot of this month working on infrastructure projects such as tackling issues with servers coming online and modernizing our deployment stack. In addition, he continued his work on refactoring the MineZ codebase for performance, stability, and general bugfixing purposes.
Skillerfox3
Skiller continued his work on Gold Rush this month, including some initial work on balancing general gameplay. You’ve heard Murg refer to a large issue of “snowballing” where when one team is in the lead it becomes far too difficult to take it from them - this is one of those core balancing issues we’ll be focusing on both before and during the alpha testing phases. Skiller also worked on some admin tooling - improving our staff’s lives so we can improve your experience in the games.
And that’s all I have! I hope to tell you more next month, but until then - this is Navarr signing off!
With that, I bid you farewell. I'm your host, Mistri. Please let us know what you think about the New Moon in the comments. We love to hear your feedback!
Jun
01
Letter from the Co-Lead
A follow-up by Navarr
There’s not a whole lot to say this month - we’re still chugging along on GhostCraft, and I’m doing my best to keep what small marketing engine we have running. One of the tests I ran this month with that was live streaming the Annihilation Tournament games to Facebook (as well as our many other platforms).
While we did not get a lot of live viewers on Facebook, we did get a lot of views and likes on the videos afterwards. While we may not continue live streaming to Facebook (due to cost), it’s very likely I’ll get back in the habit of cross-posting our videos there.
If you haven’t yet, please like us on Facebook at http://facebook.com/ShotbowOfficial and several or all of our various games’ pages. We’ll be expanding what games have pages depending on popularity and request.
In the same marketing vein, we also launched our newsletter this month. If you haven’t signed up you can do so at http://j.mp/shotbow-signup. This was very important to us as our previous system for getting out news and information just wasn’t working. If you haven’t yet, please do sign up. As of right now, we’re sticking true to sending an XP code with every newsletter send to the list.
As for transparency - I guess I don’t have much I can say here. I’ve certainly noticed some of our developers reaching out to the playerbase on the forums more often for ideas, comments, concerns and the likes. But as for how we’re doing - I’ll need you to tell me. Please leave a comment on the forums telling us how we’re doing in regards to our goal of more transparency. Please be constructive - if you think we should be more transparent in some way, tell us what that way is.
Thanks for reading, and as always - thank you for flying Shotbow. I leave you now in the capable hands of Mistri.
Hey folks! Hope everyone is doing well. For those of you with finals, good luck! I personally just finished mine (hence why the New Moon is a few hours late), so the next few weeks will be dedicated Shotbow time! Please enjoy this month's New Moon.
Updates
Annihilation Updates
This month, the Annihilation clan tournament continued, and was livestreamed here:
Statistics
SMASH Rankings
The 2018 Spring season is in session, so rack up that ELO quickly before it's over! The current standings are:
MTA Leaderboards for May 2018
Combat:
Staff updates:
What can I do?
Play on Shotbow, invite your friends, and invite their friends! Make friends and invite them to Shotbow! Spread the word about our amazing games, and in return we'll work as hard as we can to make your experience the best it can possibly be.
Developer Corner
By Navarr
The feedback to last month’s developer corner was pretty good. I’m happy to see that many enjoyed reading up on what exactly it is our developers are doing.
One of the hardest parts of writing this is deciding how much we can or should say about what our developers are doing. For example - when someone is working on anti-cheat type things, we can really only say that we’re improving admin tools, or the game, or something else - and likewise that’s pretty much all I can say when I get a “we’ve fixed a ton of small bugs in x.” I’m doing my best over here.
As always, your reminder that we’re not making promises as to how soon or long it will be until we release anything mentioned here. Developers move about different projects as needed/desired.
That said, we are currently pushing for Gold Rush to hit an Alpha as soon as we possibly can.
Murgatron
I’ll be honest, I’ve never really considered Murgatron a developer - but he keeps sending me monthly updates, so I guess I’ll talk about what he’s been doing. Let me just look over these notes.. Hmm, yeah.. Can’t really say that out explicitly.. Maybe I can reword it? Ah, yeah, here we go.
This month Murgatron was happy to report that he worked together with the Development Team to help fight back cheaters with the second best tools available to us - technology! Fighting off cheaters is a cat and mouse game that requires constant attention, and Murg and the Development Team were on top of it this past month.
He was also proud to report that he continued working with the team to move Gold Rush forward. He believes we’re very close to an alpha release, which should play well with our internal goal of launching that this summer.
Robertthegoat
Robert has been spending a lot of his time working on Gold Rush. There’s lots of tweaks, bug fixes, and other things going on here. One exciting thing perhaps is that he’s very focused on ensuring Gold Rush has localization support (at my behest). This is great news, as I have been pushing since its inception for Gold Rush to be one of, if not THE first game on the network fully localized into Japanese. Our expanding localization team is standing by ready to translate - so I can’t wait for that alpha!
In addition to Gold Rush, Robertthegoat took some time to work on quality of life improvements to GhostCraft. The staff have been getting together and playing it a few times this month and after witnessing some bugs he decided he wanted to round them up and squash them like.. Bugs…
DocCodeSharp
Doc has spent a great portion of this month focused on internal processes (yes, still - you wouldn’t believe how long some of that type of stuff takes), squashing MineZ bugs and refactoring it’s code for stability purposes, and performing other quality of life improvements related to keeping cheaters off our servers.
skillerfox3
Skiller has been working on Gold Rush alongside Robertthegoat to fix those bugs and polish that game. He specifically mentioned some quality of life improvements like adding death messages and improving the existing map objectives.
Have I mentioned yet how excited I am for Gold Rush?
Anyway, here's one final thing I'd like to say: no comment from a developer doesn't mean they didn't do anything, it just means that they may not have told us what they did. Anyway, thanks for reading, and see you next month!
- Navarr
With that, I bid you farewell. I'm your host, Mistri. See you next month!
A follow-up by Navarr
There’s not a whole lot to say this month - we’re still chugging along on GhostCraft, and I’m doing my best to keep what small marketing engine we have running. One of the tests I ran this month with that was live streaming the Annihilation Tournament games to Facebook (as well as our many other platforms).
While we did not get a lot of live viewers on Facebook, we did get a lot of views and likes on the videos afterwards. While we may not continue live streaming to Facebook (due to cost), it’s very likely I’ll get back in the habit of cross-posting our videos there.
If you haven’t yet, please like us on Facebook at http://facebook.com/ShotbowOfficial and several or all of our various games’ pages. We’ll be expanding what games have pages depending on popularity and request.
In the same marketing vein, we also launched our newsletter this month. If you haven’t signed up you can do so at http://j.mp/shotbow-signup. This was very important to us as our previous system for getting out news and information just wasn’t working. If you haven’t yet, please do sign up. As of right now, we’re sticking true to sending an XP code with every newsletter send to the list.
As for transparency - I guess I don’t have much I can say here. I’ve certainly noticed some of our developers reaching out to the playerbase on the forums more often for ideas, comments, concerns and the likes. But as for how we’re doing - I’ll need you to tell me. Please leave a comment on the forums telling us how we’re doing in regards to our goal of more transparency. Please be constructive - if you think we should be more transparent in some way, tell us what that way is.
Thanks for reading, and as always - thank you for flying Shotbow. I leave you now in the capable hands of Mistri.
Hey folks! Hope everyone is doing well. For those of you with finals, good luck! I personally just finished mine (hence why the New Moon is a few hours late), so the next few weeks will be dedicated Shotbow time! Please enjoy this month's New Moon.
Updates
Annihilation Updates
This month, the Annihilation clan tournament continued, and was livestreamed here:
Statistics
SMASH Rankings
The 2018 Spring season is in session, so rack up that ELO quickly before it's over! The current standings are:
- 1st - _BrightDarkness_ (1183)
- 2nd - Acstes (1169)
- 3rd - mattu34 (1153)
MTA Leaderboards for May 2018
Combat:
- 1st - Lexio KDR: 214:1 (214.0)
- 2nd - NoHaxJustMike KDR: 164:1 (164.0)
- 3rd - Red_Flowers KDR: 334:5 (66.8)
- 1st - Lexio Arrests: 53.0
- 2nd - erai1210 Arrests: 45.0
- 3rd - Killereilite2 Arrests: 34.0
- 1st - 8ge Experience gained: 263289.0
- 2nd - Xx_wankosoba_xX Experience gained: 42950.0
- 3rd - harucari Experience gained: 42031.0
- 1st - Portoss Minigames won: 145.0
- 2nd - harucari Minigames won: 118.0
- 3rd - Lexio Minigames won: 80.0
Staff updates:
- PokeTheEye rejoined the Full Admin team
- 66tee rejoined the Full Builder team
- Wayvernia was promoted to GG Lead
- Marine_PvP was promoted to MineZ Co-Lead
- ArcticStorm141 joined the Anni team as Mini-Admin
- Mistri joined the Website Moderator team
- Camarum joined the Localization team as Slovak Translator
- Snaaaap joined the Localization team as Portuguese Translator
- A total of 71,891,263 XP was earned by players this month
- There were 3,284 players banned in the last month
- This month we achieved a peak playercount of 672 on May 13
What can I do?
Play on Shotbow, invite your friends, and invite their friends! Make friends and invite them to Shotbow! Spread the word about our amazing games, and in return we'll work as hard as we can to make your experience the best it can possibly be.
Developer Corner
By Navarr
The feedback to last month’s developer corner was pretty good. I’m happy to see that many enjoyed reading up on what exactly it is our developers are doing.
One of the hardest parts of writing this is deciding how much we can or should say about what our developers are doing. For example - when someone is working on anti-cheat type things, we can really only say that we’re improving admin tools, or the game, or something else - and likewise that’s pretty much all I can say when I get a “we’ve fixed a ton of small bugs in x.” I’m doing my best over here.
As always, your reminder that we’re not making promises as to how soon or long it will be until we release anything mentioned here. Developers move about different projects as needed/desired.
That said, we are currently pushing for Gold Rush to hit an Alpha as soon as we possibly can.
Murgatron
I’ll be honest, I’ve never really considered Murgatron a developer - but he keeps sending me monthly updates, so I guess I’ll talk about what he’s been doing. Let me just look over these notes.. Hmm, yeah.. Can’t really say that out explicitly.. Maybe I can reword it? Ah, yeah, here we go.
This month Murgatron was happy to report that he worked together with the Development Team to help fight back cheaters with the second best tools available to us - technology! Fighting off cheaters is a cat and mouse game that requires constant attention, and Murg and the Development Team were on top of it this past month.
He was also proud to report that he continued working with the team to move Gold Rush forward. He believes we’re very close to an alpha release, which should play well with our internal goal of launching that this summer.
Robertthegoat
Robert has been spending a lot of his time working on Gold Rush. There’s lots of tweaks, bug fixes, and other things going on here. One exciting thing perhaps is that he’s very focused on ensuring Gold Rush has localization support (at my behest). This is great news, as I have been pushing since its inception for Gold Rush to be one of, if not THE first game on the network fully localized into Japanese. Our expanding localization team is standing by ready to translate - so I can’t wait for that alpha!
In addition to Gold Rush, Robertthegoat took some time to work on quality of life improvements to GhostCraft. The staff have been getting together and playing it a few times this month and after witnessing some bugs he decided he wanted to round them up and squash them like.. Bugs…
DocCodeSharp
Doc has spent a great portion of this month focused on internal processes (yes, still - you wouldn’t believe how long some of that type of stuff takes), squashing MineZ bugs and refactoring it’s code for stability purposes, and performing other quality of life improvements related to keeping cheaters off our servers.
skillerfox3
Skiller has been working on Gold Rush alongside Robertthegoat to fix those bugs and polish that game. He specifically mentioned some quality of life improvements like adding death messages and improving the existing map objectives.
Have I mentioned yet how excited I am for Gold Rush?
Anyway, here's one final thing I'd like to say: no comment from a developer doesn't mean they didn't do anything, it just means that they may not have told us what they did. Anyway, thanks for reading, and see you next month!
- Navarr
With that, I bid you farewell. I'm your host, Mistri. See you next month!
May
01
Updates
Network Updates
We have some great news—1.12.2 support is currently being tested. Stay tuned for more info.
Annihilation Updates
This month, many exciting things happened in Annihilation!
To begin with, the Annihilation clan tournament continued, and was livestreamed here:
Next up, we announced changes that will be coming to the way you join a team, which should hopefully fix the team stacking issue. Read all about it here!
Finally, we had a large update patch to Annihilation, which included many new balances and cool features! Read all about it here.
Gold Rush Updates
Development pace has increased on Gold Rush. You can view a stream of a staff test game that we held earlier this month here:
Slaughter Updates
Two new maps have been added to Slaughter, Moria and Burrows.
Statistics
SMASH Rankings
The 2018 Spring season is in session, so rack up that ELO quickly before it's over! The current standings are:
- 1st - Acstes (1169)
- 2nd - _BrightDarkness_ (1169)
- 3rd - JirenX (1144)
MTA Leaderboards for April 2018
Combat:
- 1st - NeedVini KDR: 89:1 (89.0)
- 2nd - Wafuuu KDR: 42:1 (42.0)
- 3rd - AVAchqn KDR: 18:0 (18.0)
- 1st - clover0321 Arrests: 56.0
- 2nd - NoSkill_00 Arrests: 32.0
- 3rd - Tyrmo Arrests: 28.0
- 1st - _hage Experience gained: 145781.0
- 2nd - Nanacoro Experience gained: 71540.0
- 3rd - AMeno_ToRIFuNE Experience gained: 43409.0
- 1st - InfinityAura Minigames won: 120.0
- 2nd - DonutMaster35 Minigames won: 103.0
- 3rd - Geromo1561 Minigames won: 96.0
Staff updates:
- DocCodeSharp was promoted to Lead Developer
- Lomrun_ was promoted to Full Builder and Co-Lead Builder
- JTGangsterLP6 was promoted to Full Admin
- windex_07 was promoted to Full Admin
- Nalacion, Talef, and Pichu2002 joined the Mini Builder team
- A total of 120,671,421 XP was earned by players this month
- There were 2,048 players banned in the last month
- This month we achieved a peak playercount of 737 on April 15
This month, we are still up really high and close to 1,000 players online at one time. However, if we can hit over 1,000 players online at one time during the next month, we will do a Platinum rank giveaway on the Twitter!
What can I do?
Play on Shotbow, invite your friends, and invite their friends! Make friends and invite them to Shotbow! Spread the word about our amazing games, and in return we'll work as hard as we can to make your experience the best it can possibly be.
Developer Corner
We're trying something new this month. Last month the issue was raised that, despite some of our attempts at communicating development work, tasks, and what we've been doing - we've fallen short in being open enough with the community about the work we're doing.
As such, starting this month - and hopefully for the next couple at least, we'll be hosting a Developer Corner in the New Moon. Here, we'll gather up data on what our developers have been working on, removing the classifieds, and running hype-control on it.
AS ALWAYS, this is what we're currently working on. There's no guarantee that it will come out soon - or in some cases ever. Let me re-iterate: WE ARE NOT MAKING PROMISES HERE. You got that?? You hear me?? It's important for you to connect those dots if we're going to be more transparent. This is your reminder that our developers are volunteers, that they work in their free time as a hobby, and they do their damn best. I hope we're on the same page - so let's move on to what they've been working on!
The interviews below are from the perspective of Navarr. Enjoy!
skillerfox3
This past month, Skiller has been focusing his attention on Gold Rush and quality of life improvements across the network - as well as some fun cosmetic stuff.
The most fun, perhaps, is a spiffy cake balloon made for the awesome Mint_LimeLemon
![[IMG]](https://i.imgur.com/2nqY9gy.jpg)
Skiller also worked on quality of life improvements for Annihilation, including auto-complete for /vote, and admin commands.
DocCodeSharp
Doc has spent this week working on improving our processes - including Quality Assurance & Testing for bug reports, patching our Spigot instances to more easily support Minecraft updates like 1.12.2 and 1.13.
One big thing that Doc has also been working on is a long-term refactoring project for MineZ to improve the codebase and stability of the game.
Jeroenhero
Jeroen's big projects are a new /help command (such as on SMASH) that will be localizable, making some pets, and some quality of life improvements across the network such as admin tooling.
Robertthegoat
Robertthegoat was pleased to share with me the tonne of things he worked on this month. Most of which are sadly quality of life improvements and experimental features for current games like MineZ. However, on top of that he continued work on refactoring core pieces of the Wasted codebase (used for Wasted Sandbox, Gun Game, and Control), as well as spending some of his time on Gold Rush!
Galap
This month, Galap's primary tasks have been quality of life improvements for Annihilation - such as beating back cheaters and work on the priority queuing system for defeating team stacking.
Navarr
I’m also pleased to announce that I worked on Chat Bot this month - with significant assistance from Mistri. Unlike other pieces of Shotbow code, Chat Bot is open Source and available for viewing on GitHub. Of particular note is the new command !playercount, which already has daily use in the Shotbow Discord - which can display the playercount across all of Shotbow or for an individual game, as well as some work being done to enable localization of the bot, allowing it to respond in a language appropriate for the Discord channel its in.
That's it for the Developer Corner. Please let us know what you thought about it in the comments below. Thanks!
Letter from the Leads
What follows is a letter from the Network Leads. Please enjoy!
It's that time of year - we're in the slow part surrounding finals right before summer break. Although, you may not be able to notice that this week as it's the start of Golden Week - a week full of holidays for the Japanese here on the network. To those in Japan - enjoy your vacation! We'll be delighted if you decide to spend some of it on Shotbow.
As Network Leads, it's our responsibility to do our best to keep an eye on the network, set the direction it's heading in, and ensure that we're doing the best we can do in all areas.
It is in this vein that we've realized two significant areas we need to improve upon - which we may have already known, and which you may have also already known:
Transparency & Marketing
By the time you read this letter, you'll have noticed that we're already working hard to improve upon this facets of the network. In regards to marketing, we have launched a new mailing list that should allow us to send out update emails and more once again - without rendering the rest of our infra useless.
In addition to that, we're putting more focus on our social media again - such as Facebook, and we've been streaming the Annihilation Tournament on multiple platforms at once - Twitch, Facebook, YouTube, Periscope, and Mixer. We're doing our best to start putting our content back out into the world to help drive players in. We hope to expand this focus to rehash our approach with voting websites.
In the realm of transparency, we're encouraging developers to talk to the community about difficult implementations and changes we want to make to our games - such as the new queuing system in Annihilation.
In addition to increasing community outreach and feedback, we're trialing a new monthly system to help inform players of what our developers are doing. You'll notice in this New Moon that there is a developer corner. We've spent the last month keeping an eye on the developers and, more honestly, asking them around the end of the month to tell us what they've been working on. We've compiled this and modified it to control the hype and ensure we're not making any promises in order to keep you in the know.
Remember as always to keep realistic expectations of an all volunteer staff team - as many of them have finals coming up as well.
These two facets are our primary focus this quarter. Though it goes without saying there is still a continued focus on getting new players, keeping our current playerbase, improving our games, and bringing new games - but we figure you'll read more about that in our Developer Corner.
And as always, Thank you for flying Shotbow.
We'll talk again soon.
— Murgatron & Navarr
With that, I bid you farewell. I'm your host, Mistri. See you next month!
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