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We’re not dead, but we’re working on something very special. WebSmeef. Like agar.io, but Smeef. You want to play against people on the other side of the world? Well, yeah, that’s what we’re aiming for.

More later as the story develops. Now for the weather, thanks Terry.

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:D

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WIP

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...aaaand now we reached the bandwidth limit. Thanks Obama Reddit. I’ll have to see if we can get it increased. On the plus side, it shows how much people actually want to play Smeef...right?

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Whaaat. I posted a link to Smeef on Reddit, at /r/webgames, and over the course of today, the page has already got almost 2000 views.

The overall response is really positive towards it - I think we may end up making a 3d Unity version after all.

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Had to do some filtering for referrals on our website, we seemed to be getting a lot of spam traffic from websites in Russia.

PSA, if your own website seem to be getting heavy traffic from Russia, but an extremely high bounce rate and 0:00:00 avg. visit length, it is likely your website has the same thing. Here’s a good place to remedy:

https://moz.com/blog/how-to-stop-spam-bots-from-ruining-your-analytics-referral-data

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Modbox Update:

Ok, so, in a pretty big decision, we’ve decided to transition to Unity for purposed of making ModBox. It’ll look nicer, run faster, and we can add way more features way faster. We’ll even be able to import animations from Blender directly into it, instead of chopping up mobs and rotating parts of them in Java.

So, until we get everything set up, I’ll post concept images of mobs and structures and stuff!

Also, that guessing game of guess-the-species-of-the-leeani-and-win-a-steam-prize (or GTSOTLAWASP) is still open. I’ve had a couple of guesses coming in, and to answer those:

As funny as it would be to have cockroaches survive the apocalypse and become sentient, sadly they will only be regular mobs (albeit giant).

The Leeani are also not seagulls. I don’t know why that was your first guess, but they’re not.

Here’s the small segment on them, see if you can glean anything else from it.

Leeani, who I haven’t discussed in great detail before, aren’t 100% the good guys either. If you leave a strongbox lying around unlocked, they’ll probably try to rummage through it and habitually take the shiniest things in there (determined by a shininess factor on every item. This can work for trading with them as well) There’ll be an audio cue as well, so you can hear them rummaging around in your crates. Hey, but don’t attack them if they do take something, because they won’t like it (because, hey, I stole your stuff, but don’t go getting revenge on me k?) They live in neat little towns and usually have some kind of mineshaft in it. Semblants will occasionally raid them, too, so don’t think you’re the one getting all the hate.

BONUS: The Leeani are mammals, not avian, insectoid, arachnids or reptile. No, they are not fish either.

Remember, if you win, I’ll buy you a game up to NZD$15 ($20 US) on Steam.

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It’s a slope. Because there’s no lighting, this is probably the best angle for observation. Still, slopes!