Bang! You're downloaded.

Congratulations to Bang! Howdy! Three Rings' second game has successfully started advertising on a number of websites and jumped in population to an average of 2,000 users online per day. The number of people downloading the client has increased so dramatically that, in the words of Calrissian, our lead infrastructure engineer, "It's kicking the [barnacle] out of our download server."

As of last week, we were averaging 3.6 gigabytes of data per minute, which is nearly a DVD every 60 seconds. And today, we found that we are on the front page of download.com. To preserve the moment, I took a screencap.

It's not the only good news; some of you game industry enthusiasts may have noticed that Three Rings founders Cleaver (Daniel James) and One-Eyed Jack (Michael Bayne) are scheduled to give a talk at the 2007 Game Developers Conference about our latest project which is currently codenamed MetaSOY, in March. Is it science? Is it magic? Finally, we find out what it is!

Three Rings will be at the Game Developers Conference, since Bang! Howdy is up for one of the Independent Games Awards. I'll hopefully be there, taking pictures and posting away. See ye there, mates!

Posted by Hypnos in Announcements | Feb 22, 2007 | 15 Comments | permalink

Comments:

Posted by Darkaardvark

I've been waiting for that talk, if only because it'll finally give us some info on what MetaSOY will be about. Tasty!

February 22, 2007 at 08:54 PM PST | permalink

Posted by The_Colonel

Make sure the good Captain can restrains himself at the lecture on Piracy and Video Games.
https://www.cmpevents.com/GD07/a.asp?option=C&V=11&SessID=4653

February 23, 2007 at 02:55 AM PST | permalink

Posted by Crooktooth

Finally gonna spill the Metasoy beans.

February 23, 2007 at 03:57 PM PST | permalink

Posted by Noria

Good luck with the Awards!

February 26, 2007 at 03:55 AM PST | permalink

Posted by Domokun

If it doesn't contain Pink Fluffy Bunnies, I'm gonna be annoyed.

February 26, 2007 at 05:59 AM PST | permalink

Posted by Domokun

If it doesn't contain Pink Fluffy Bunnies, I'm gonna be annoyed.

February 26, 2007 at 06:00 AM PST | permalink

Posted by Evvee

But the REAL question is -- Will any of you be at Bay Con '07??? :D

February 28, 2007 at 12:36 AM PST | permalink

Posted by Hypnos

What is Bay Con '07?

February 28, 2007 at 11:17 AM PST | permalink

Posted by Mrs. Cephalopod

According to the god google it's a scifi/fantasy con.

February 28, 2007 at 05:56 PM PST | permalink

Posted by Kinocha

I'm pretty sure I saw a new post in the blog the other day. A day in Hypnos life of or something like that. It included among other things a picture of a nap place, and Hypnos promised to hurt anyone else using it.

Was that just something I imagined?

March 01, 2007 at 11:32 AM PST | permalink

Posted by Blakshox

No, I'm pretty sure I remember a post like that as well. I posted a comment on it. Unless I imagined both the posty and the comment...and the video and picture...

March 01, 2007 at 02:27 PM PST | permalink

Posted by Kinocha

http://blog.puzzlepirates.com/2007/02/a_day_in_the_li.html#more

I even found the place where it used to be. Hypnos, what happened?

March 02, 2007 at 01:54 PM PST | permalink

Posted by Seaprincessa

I remember that post too. Where has it gone Hypnos?

March 03, 2007 at 10:55 PM PST | permalink

Posted by Kinocha

Found an answer :)
http://forums.puzzlepirates.com/community/mvnforum/viewthread?p=976802#976802

March 04, 2007 at 05:22 AM PST | permalink

Posted by Howdy_This

Too bad the game sucks.