DoppelGanger - Gamers In Action

After doing a google search for Gamers Of Action and finding us actually listed (Hurray!), I couldn't help but notice that it looks like we have a doppelganger in another site called GamersInAction.org.

That's actually really awesome to hear since Gamers In Action is doing something similar to what we want to do although it looks like for now they are focusing exclusively on hosting game tournaments to raise money for charities. Right now it looks like they're working together with Child's Play, an non-profit org that helps raise money and donations to get games into the hands of children at the hospital which is really cool.

I'll have to contact the people over at Gamers In Action to see if they'd like to work together in the future since it seems like our orgs would be good complements for each other. Perhaps Gamers Of Action can drop the tournament missions and focus more on progressive game playing/reviewing/creation.

Shameless Self Promotion

If you're interested in checking out a edutainment game that I created a couple of years ago check out Keyalaga - a typing tutor shoot em up game combining the look of Galaga with the typing mechanics of Typing of the Dead. I'm shooting to port the game over into the XNA and PSN engines so I can get a polished version out to consoles. Don't expect it anytime soon though unless I somehow get a team together to work on it because working on this project alone is gonna take a while. Let me know what you think though if you get a chance to try out Keyalaga.

http://www.cs.lmu.edu/~timberoth/keyalaga

Feast your eyes on the masterpiece known as Keyalaga...............................

Web Site Design Guru?

Nope. I'm not sure I'd really even consider myself an average web site designer. Then again I'm a computer scientist first and foremost so I doubt I'll ever get out of the realm of programmer art. For now I'll focus on the organization's content and web site tech like Javascript, XML and SQL databases. We still need a website front page though, so I think I'll have to create a better under construction site for now to at least put some information up.

Logo of Action

It took a few tries but we finally have a logo for Gamers of Action. It's a combination of the controller design I created with the spirally design Kat created. The controller obviously symbolizes gaming both current and future, while the spirals represent continuous progressive movement and action.

Take a look and let us know what you think.

It's Alive, It's ALIVE!!!!!!!!

The gamersofaction.org site is now live, although it's obviously under construction. Now that we have a site, we'll be adding to it over time since we don't have a lot of time to focus on it right now. If you want to help out let us know since we could always use any web design support.

Finding a Web Host is Hard :(

Didn’t realize finding a good web hosting company was going to be so hard.  I’ve been wallowing through reviews for hours last night, but I’m still not sure exactly who I’m going to go through to set up GamersOfAction.org, although I’m leaning toward InMotion.  I’m looking to get this all sorted out this weekend so hopefully they’ll be a website up and running by tomorrow night.  Wish me luck.

Quick Note to Self

Game marathon fundraisers and large scale drive to play existing positive impact games like GWAPs (Games With A Purpose) and that Rice for Definitions game.