Laziness Succumbs to Guilt; We’re Back.
As usual, I took a long time getting the site back up. As I’m sure many have heard by now, over the summer the entire Mixnmojo server was taken down by a wee knee-high hacker from Brazil, and after a few months dragged itself back to life. The Unofficial Sam & Max Website, however, decided it sort of liked being dead. Less responsibility, obligation, you know? Maybe it would be better to just shut the site and hide myself. Sadly, it was not to be, for a few reasons.
First, people bug me about it. “Why isn’t the site up?” People on the forums ask me, people on IRC ask me, people ask me via email, even mysterious public relations people ask me. I guess I should get the site up, yeah?
Second, and this is really cool (if a bit egotistical?): We’re somehow the number two Sam & Max site on Google, second only to LucasArts’ Sam & Max 2 site. I felt damn guilty somehow being the #2 site on Google when all my site consisted of was a little Gif saying “sorry we’re offline.” This guilt was doubled when I temporarily thought DML’s grandaddy of Sam & Max websites had finally kicked the bucket. Fortunately it’s still around, though its index page has disappeared from the net. Probably hiding in shame after my “offline notice” Gif bumped it to #3 on Google. Booyah!
And finally, Sam & Max 2 is nigh. Nobody knows when the game will actually come out, but the press has started talking about it, and I’m excited. Mike Stemmle, the game’s designer and writer (and co-incidentally co-wrote and co-designed the first game) continues to talk about the game, and every new word out of his mouth just gets me that much more worked up about the game. Anything LucasArts having that effect on me is damn rare these days. Good stuff.
PS: David “Metallus” Eggers is also still helping with the site, if you were wondering. In fact, he did most of the work required to bring the site back online. I’ve just stolen all the credit.