Hey Comic Fans, We’re into our 6th day of voting now in the final round of the SP webcomic awards, and it’s turning out to be a real nail-biter for Legostar Galactica and Girl Genius fans as voting comes around the far turn. The two comics have been neck-and-neck virtually[…]
TGT Interview
Hey Snakehead-ers: I had the privilege of talking with Kurt of TGT Webcomics. It’s an hour long podcast, his 106th in fact. There are a few “secrets” in there. Check it out: http://tgtwebcomics.com/podcast/ep106-snakeheadgames/ AAB
New Look for Starpirates.net
We got Gooey. No, not Gooey, I mean GUI — Graphic User Interface. See when we started StarPirates a few years ago, the preferred game interface was text and minimal clicks. And we went for it with all the links for the game spread over just two pages. And that[…]
Comic Awards – Final Round of Voting!
Three fantastic comics have fought their way to the final round in Snakehead Games’ “Scifi or Gaming Comic Awards”. Voting began on June 5th, 2010, inside www.starpirates.net, and will run for ten days, until June 15th. Both $1000 grand prizes will be announced officially once voting closes. Although voting is[…]
Coming in June to SHG
Greetz Agents and Space Pirates! So you all know we have some stuff in the works behind the scenes, and a few of you pestered me to the point of writing a blog about it. (Actually it’s sorta true; I wanted to post what we were doing timeline-wise). New GUI[…]
Comics Contest – Top 3 Announced!
Round two is ended! The polls have closed, and the votes are in. In the end, it was a much closer race than we had anticipated, but with three clear leaders in the votes. Girl Genius Schlock Mercenary Legostar Galatica Scraping into 1st position by just 4 votes (111 total)[…]
Comics Award, Down to Top Ten
The top 5 comic strips from two polls of 10 have been merged into the final batch of strips in round 2 of the Sci-fi and Gaming Comics Award. We’ll be updating this post daily, so that everyone outside the SP community can have a chance to measure their favourite[…]
Star Pirates SF Bay Area Meet-up
On April 24th, in celebration of Star Pirates’ 2nd anniversary, a group of players had the brilliant idea to hold themselves a meet-up in the SF Bay area. It seems like they had a great time, and a good turn-out as well, especially considering that Star Pirates is a global[…]
Comics Contest: Round Deux : For $2000 in prizes
As y’all know www.spybattle.com and www.starpirates.net are game-based communities. We grew for many reasons, but some of the nuclei of that growth were the online communities of comics. We worked with the owners of the coolest online comics to have their communities play in our games. And they did. So[…]
Two years of Star Pirates!
For Star Pirates’ birthday, (the big 2.0!) we celebrated on April 24th with a retro background, findable Large Bombs and 2 days of Notorious for everyone – as well as with several major contests, thanks to our fantastic players. We decided to do something a little different than usual with[…]
Economic Management: A Few Changes
One of the many things that we, as Snakehead Games Adminstrators, are required to manage is the economy. One of the many roles that keep our milliner busy as all get out is hard wearing of the Central Bankers bowler hat. Like other central bankers we aim for the goldilocks[…]