Well boys. And gal? :scratch: [size=9px]Athena never posts in the forums though.[/size] :?

I will be leaving on the Wed. for my 7 week long trip. During that time I'll be off-line. Some projects will be on hold. Others I can work on while I'm at sea on my laptop.


My biggest concern is this site. PGD had been born with a bang. We had over 40 registered members logged in a day. During the competition it was pretty high aswell. You notice how when staff of the site make a conserted effort the numbers go up? We add content, we interact more, we get more involved, more people come to see whats going on. PGD goes on...

I don't see a lot of that these days. Only a select few actually push to keep PGD running. And that sorely disapoints me, as I have put a lot of effort into it over the past couple of years. But thats not what bugs me the most. What really really bothers me is that if I were to stop trying so hard it would probably all just fall apart and be yet another fad, come and gone.

Sascha and savage are doing a lot now to keep the news going, as I made clear mention of as a problem before, but will that be enough? I know that if there were two of me, it would be easier to keep things running, but it wouldn't solve the issue.

We need a fully proactive staff who will Report News, write articles(I'm not talking HUGE novels)not just about the technical stuff, but the business and other sized of the whole game creation/development side of things.

There are small bugs and little perks to the site, but if noone is around to be modivated enough to run at any capacity, the site as it is, then who will honestly be there to do it when the site is 100% bug free?


Besides this I do have several other things that I'd like to do besides co-manage PGD. I have a new game that I am considering options for commercial production and I also have my upcoming studies at university next year. The latter leaving me no room to be at a management level for the site. I'll either reduce myself to being a Staff member or a simple Member of PGD then.

I hope that you guys use the time that I'm away to focus yourselves. Because after less than a years time there is going to be a whole lot less of me than a small 7 week period.

On a brighter note though. I will before I leave as management finish those remainning sections of the site I originally intended to create since launch. And I will be working out a small 'PGD Challenge' contest for the month of November. Come Feb/Mar we will also see the next Annual PGD Competition for 2006, that both savage and I will be organizing --and have been planning for some time now.

If I don't speak with you before I leave, I wish all my good friends here a safe few of weeks and great luck and fortune with their endevours.