Monthly Archives: April 2010

Comics Contest: Round Deux : For $2000 in prizes


As y’all know www.spybattle.com and www.starpirates.net are game-based communities.   We grew for many reasons, but some of the nuclei of that growth were the online communities of comics. We worked with the owners of the coolest online comics to have their communities play in our games.  And they did.   So we’re throwing a thank you back to the creators of the comics AND their communities.   So we already have a first round vote to get 20 webcomics that our [...]

Two years of Star Pirates!


For Star Pirates’ birthday, (the big 2.0!) we celebrated on April 24th with a retro background, findable Large Bombs and 2 days of Notorious for everyone – as well as with several major contests, thanks to our fantastic players. We decided to do something a little different than usual with the blog post, and we asked one of the players to write up the celebratory birthday toast. It’s been a wonderful year for us, and we couldn’t have done it [...]

Economic Management: A Few Changes


One of the many things that we, as Snakehead Games Adminstrators, are required to manage is the economy.   One of the many roles that keep our milliner busy as all get out is hard wearing of the  Central Bankers bowler hat.   Like other central bankers we aim for the goldilocks economy – not too hot and not too cold.  Unlike RL Central Bankers, we are pretty good at both detecting and pricking bubbles of irrational exuberance before they ruin the [...]

Extra! Extra! Orderly War Dissolves into Chaos


From time to time, you just have to gracefully accept that with some major game updates, no matter how prepared you think you are, it’s just not a real update until you bring down the house. Or in this case, briefly, the game. In retrospect, we shouldn’t be surprised – after all, when Chaos and Order go head to head, there are bound to be some casualties. (Jupiter, and poor, frozen AAB for example.) Evidently 200+ war members was just [...]