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It is my pleasure to introduce to you hero6's new PR Lead, DVC. The PR Lead Seconds Zavlin and o0wolverine0o will support him. Lets say hello to these new hero6 team members and support them as they help us move forward.

I also want to thank everyone that applied for the PR Lead role. We had a good group of candidates. For those of you that where not brought on board, please contact me about other positions.

Thank you,

Hey, welcome, guys!!!!!  ;D

Hi all!

Looking forward to this. It's going to be great. :)

I used to run PlanetVampire for GameSpy and prior to that ran my own successful independent site for VTM: Bloodlines. I've been playing Sierra adventure games since some time in the 80's including the original Hero's Quest on my 286/8mhz with CGA monitor and no HD. :)

Welcome aboard, DVC. Hope you know damage control. :D

Hey there all!! happy to join the team :)

And welcome to you too, Zavlin.

Well, I guess now it's time for wolverine to appear. *grins evilly and pokes about the sand with a large, pointed stick*

Good to have you here, although considering the visitor forum is rapidly approaching necrosis, I don't think you'll have much to do, this place brings new meaning to the phrase 'Silent as the Grave'.

Well it's a goal of mine to resurrect this old graveyard under DVC's lead and really add a new spark to Hero6. Really happy to join the team and do some "damage control" ;-)

And a welcome to the final addition to the PR team. I'll have Cerebro add you to the database.  :D

Not to be a pain, but why nubs?

[sarcasm]Wow it's good to see that these guys all are doing their jobs. [/sarcasm]

Well I suppose it's not their fault, maybe there is nothing to report. But that begs the question if there is nothing to report about after 2 months then why get PR leads in the first place? :)

Well, keeping this place alive should be a priority, if you ask me...

I agree, but I figure someone else from the team could have taken over the PR responsiblities. Unless of course the H6 team is still quite busy.

If it's silent as the grave around here, it's not the PR team's fault (which is pointless in my opinion, maybe one guy would suffice).  If you (the team) keep updating, people will keep showing up.  I mean if you release a record in my industry and never do anything again (play shows, do interviews, release singles, big tours, etc), you're going to die off in a week's time.  You have to keep doing things to keep drawing in a crowd.  Update every three days for the next month and it won't be so quiet.

Precisely. The last update to Hero6 was what, a year ago? I mean, the last piece of news we've had is your promotion, and what have you done since then? Jack squat. You haven't even posted. So much for Public Relations.

Try to keep your tone somewhere between mild and moderate, Corsair. Please. Hero6 is going through a lot of changes for the time being and that's the reason for the Creative Director not being active on the visitors forum. As for the absence of the newly appointed PR team...well, I won't try to justify it because it's not my area. However, recent developments have me confident that I'll be able to say something other than "Work is getting done. Seriously. Trust me." soon and offer proof as well.

For the time being, however,...work is getting done. Seriously.

At least Hero6 is still trying to make it. Alot of other projects are long dead. :)

It's sad seeing your favorite projects die on you. :'(

That's true too.   At least someone is still carrying the torch, gotta be glad for that I suppose.

I announced my original adventure game really early, even before I had more than six or seven screens finished - but then since I decided I wasn't going to pursue it (instead pursue my prog-rock creations), I pulled everything before anyone got their hopes up.



What recent developments might that be?

It's been over six months since we had an update that was anything other than a management update. Even AGDI updates are better than that, and you get those once in a blue moon. I mean, good grief, release a screenshot or something.

Now you see, THAT's where my predicament lies. I -know- what's going on, but I'm not qualified to answer to that. I'm a measly dialogue writer/editer that takes care of the visitors forums as well.

Good grief, you've got a more or less operational Alpha, right? So take a couple screenshots and show us what you can do. I'm sure you can capture some fat mayor or something. I mean, for all the information we're getting, it looks like Hero6 is dead.

Trust me, if it were that simple, I'd do it myself, but nothing reaches the fans unless the big people say so.

Yes, putting myself in the position of a fan, I'd draw the same conclusion that Hero6 is dead. However, as a team member I can confidently say that it's not.

The big people should just post a little news stating "we're not dead. thanks." and call it good.  That'd be more than not saying anything at all.

Look under http://visitors.hero6.com/forums/index.php?topic=665.0


What I'm really curious about is whether the H6 team is close to in house beta testing, or if they are still a long ways off from it.

Silverbolt, I don't envy your position, though I do admire that you're doing the best you can given the circumstances. All I can suggest is that you inform Servant of this topic because these people do have a right to know what's going on.

It's not that I'm really trying to cause trouble for you, Silverbolt, I'd never do such a thing.

Lazygamer, the last screenshot in that thread was 10 months ago.

Hey guys, sorry for being so quiet since I made my last post.

Actually we've been fairly busy behind the scenes. I've been pooling industry contacts and have compiled a list of gaming websites and opinion leaders for our press release distribution lists, some folks have been looking at new CMS and project management software, Servant has been recruiting, setting milestones and we've all been having team meetings online and keeping each other abreast of developments.

If we've been quiet it's because what we've been doing, while important, is frankly pretty boring from everyone else's perspective. :)

However our first official press release will be coming very soon and once we're off the mark I expect momentum will build quickly.

I won't deny that I've been remiss by not hanging around here as much as I should have and just chatting to everyone. I'll stop being such a recluse. :)

I know you wouldn't. I have your MSN and I can link you to nightmares you never knew existed. ^_^

Thanks for the support, Swift.  :)

So have the old team members been deprecated?

No, not at all. The development side of things is just being restructured. Just bear with us while we get organised.  :)

What do you mean about checking out CMS's? Which ones are you looking into? And...for the website altogether, or just for the dev to use privately or what?  I think it's interesting anyway, you should share these things and let the rest of us decide what's boring :p

What I've decided to do with my project, for instance, is just start a dev journal.  I feel that's a really good way to let people know how things are progressing, because they want to know...and it's easy to do.  My journal will probably be more extreme than is necessary, but that's ok. :)

Yes, don't be a recluse, chat and be active. :) It only takes a couple minutes to post a reply, if that.  And it's FUN!

For some obscure reason I'd rather not dwell on, that last sentence made me chuckle.  ;D

Yes, but what I wanted to emphasize is that the team was quite far into alpha status 10 months ago. :)

I don't know if one has been settled on (that's another department) but I know they were checking the pro's and con's of a whole heap including Nuke based stuff, Typo3, Xoops and on and on. PHProjekt and dotproject were under consideration for project management if I recall correctly.


That's a good idea, and in many ways the forums will be our developer journal to allow for discussion but we might have a separate page on the site with succinct, chronological updates for the various departments for folks who just want to do a hit and run and see what's happening rather than wade through dozens of forum posts.


To be honest I'm still getting over the feeling that I'm a bit of an interloper, given that some of you have been following the development of Hero6 for years and now I've just kind of popped up out of the blue in this role. :) I'll try not to disappoint anyone!

Well, that's not a good sign. You were in Alpha 10 months ago? I sincerely hope you're in Beta stage now.

We are not in beta stage. I'm not sure why alpha was declared upon Hero6 as the amount of serious bugs right to iron out right now is huge. I ain't played the internal demo in a while but i think quite a lot of the fundamental quests were implemented. But a lot of work is required on the feel-good factor. Much of the work is rough and will still need much work before Hero6 is ready for beta testing.

Being one of those who were busy researching and comparing out the different features of Wikis, CMSes, yes, we got pretty busy on that part. However, as of now, my role in researching about CMSes is done and I've since passed the baton to Servant who's likely found someone else to do the job. Though, I can confirm at least 10 to 20 CMSes must've been thrown out of that list as they didn't serve our needs.


Awww, man... you'll make yourself comfy around us, I'm sure. :)

What? Really? What are you talking about?