So I finally finished my PHP/MySQL RPG game project. It’s now running at http://powerslash.pelikoira.net

Ingame screenshot of the game.

And then list of “features”:

World

Usually on online games there isn’t world. There is just couple of missions and you just click “do it”. In Powerslash you need to actually do something. There is many tasks and worlds with various difficults. In some worlds you need to use your brains, on other worlds you can just kill everyone. Tile based game-engine allows developers to greate huge worlds with massive quests.

Non-commercial

This game is free. You can’t buy gold, you can’t buy premium accounts. With this nobody can take advance with real-life money. This game is free and will always be free. Yes, if you want to donate, you can do that. For donations you get nice icon to your profile and small unique in-game gift.

Advanced engine

Advanced game-engine allows unlimited amount of different items. Dynamic coding works with world and items. With this ability Powerslash has many interesting items and quests.

No time limits!

No more annoying waiting to get more power/hp/resource. If you want to play, you can play as much as you want. Powerslash won’t give stupid time limits.

No refering system!

Many online games give boost to players who refer ppl to game with annoying links. If you want to invite your friends, do it manually. There isn’t annoying refer-link spamming.

I have also planed to release this game under open source.

I just published new layout for main site: www.pelikoira.net

I build it with awesome css framework called 960 grid system. If you code websites I recommend to try 960 gs, because it makes developing lots of easier and faster.

This site also contains my first JQuery effect that I have used. It is simple “tab” system on project page that allows to change project without reloading page. It also makes it easier to me to control the site, because now it has only 3 files. If every project is on it’s own file, I would have something like 10 .php files. Yes, I don’t have any cms system, because I don’t need them. If I need to change something I take ssh connection and modify files remotely with vim.

I build this site on Debian system with Konsole -> Bash -> Vim system.

And of course all the code (xhtml/css/rss/js) is valid.

My current hosting provider “edullinenwebhotelli” (EWH)(finnish provider) have been very cheap, but still very usable service. But now it looks like my previous host, futuron, now owns EWH. I really liked the ewh service, but now I can’t thrust that futuron won’t ruin my site again.

The problem here is that futurons servers are horrible. Customer service is slow and the servers are awful. And now my site is moving to futuron…

I am not sure what to do. I may move to new webhosting service, move to new virtual server or just stop this website.

I don’t want to be again on futuron’s servers.

I recently have released new version of my website. Now it is good time to look what I have done. Two and half years ago, I started my website on free hosting. There wasn’t lots of content and the layout weren’t very good… Here is screenshot from early layout. I have unfortunately lost the first original layout.

After sometime, I decided to move to “real” webhosting. After that I installed WordPress and tried to have a blog. I didn’t have enough time/skills to keep it up, so I went to “normal” website. I installed Joomla for two months. I hated joomla and moved back to hand code my website.

Old Pelikoira website. CMS is cutenews.

After couple of big difficulties on my hosting, I moved to new servers, and got much better systems. I restarted blogging with better succession.

Couple days ago, I read some of my text on my website, I realized that the content isn’t good. Most of text contains lots of typos and it’s mostly boring.

So I recreated my website in two parts. Blog and Website. Blog is the place where I write my random thoughts, and other stuff. On the “main” website you can find my projects, links and other non-blogging stuff.

Screenshot of Pelikoira website before total makeover.

So what is my records? Well, one of my popular pages is the joke about vista’s source code. It got very popular on stumbleupon with over 350 comments. I got about 80,000 unique visitors in two days. Best hit was about 130,000 unique visitors on my website at year 2008 on my previous server. The page was http://www.pelikoira.net/stumble. Stats are here.

Old content is now deleted, but  you can still access the downloads to get old stuff. Some big projects are coming soon…

http://www.pelikoira.net