Duels Comic
Check out the first ever Duels comic:
It’s really cool and gives a great overview of the backstory behind Phyrra, the world of Duels.
Check out the first ever Duels comic:
It’s really cool and gives a great overview of the backstory behind Phyrra, the world of Duels.
Duels continues the long tradition of cool tower defense games. You can check it out Duels Defense at www.duelsdefense.com. Or you can play the embedded version right here:
Speaking of WoW (as in World of Warcraft), I’ve quit playing. I’m having more fun playing (and working on Duels) and I just haven’t had time for WoW. I was getting tired of it even before Duels fully consumed me.
Here are my issues:
Many of the reasons I started Duels are encapsulated in that list. I love Duels because:
Duels is still growing like crazy. In two weeks we’ve already crossed 13,000 registered users. Today we’re bringing up some new database hardware - should kill the last of our performance issues - and making some cool changes:
This should be a nice step forward on serveral fronts.
I should probably be posting more. But I’ve been so busy posting on our message boards. So if you want to know more about what’s going on check that out.
In our first week we’re already over 8,500 registered users and we’re averaging over 2 duels a second. It’s crazy.
Oh and we are in the Wall Street Journal: A popular new site allows coffee-break dueling
First on Techcrunch: Ready To Kill Some Time (And Some Enemies)? Try Duels.com
- This resulted in a ton of traffic. It brought the servers to their knees.
Second, the article shows up on Digg: Duels.com - New Free Online WOW-like Game and Social Network Launches
- It became popular on Digg, eventually making the homepage. It currently has 500 diggs. This finished the servers off.
We doubled our server capacity.
- There was still tons of traffic coming in. We had to tune MySQL.
Meanwhile it also made the home page of del.icio.us (on the hotlist) and got picked up on a myriad of other blogs.
Next I’ll post some graphs.
You can read the article:Â Ready To Kill Some Time (And Some Enemies)? Try Duels.com
This has resulted in a huge influx of traffic that has caused some server hiccups for us. I think we’ve managed to tweak things enough that they running smoothly (although more slowly than we would like). I’m hopeful we can get some additional servers up today, but that is not entirely within our control.