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[…]
Walkin Whiskey
If you asked our opinion on the best way to celebrate the successful release of a space-shattering game update, we’d probably tell you that nothing goes hand in hand with big updates better than…well, a space-shattering party. That’s why, if you happened to glance at the shoutbox post-launch of miniwars,[…]
No time for All out War? Try MiniWars!
Pirates and agents alike love the glory of taking out an organised group of opponents. Until now in the Snakehead Gaming Universe, the only way to do that was full on formal wars between fleets (Starpirates.net) and factions (Spybattle.com). The advent of miniwars means that players can have pitched battles[…]
Pirate Yourself
Are you a Pirate of the spaceways? Do you have the coolest ship in the game? The best weapons? Then why do you have such a bad wallpaper? Get rid of it now!!! Instead, Pirate Yourself, to a glorious wallpaper! http://www.snakeheadgames.com/?page_id=360 Note: Just make sure you have a RL “face[…]
Rum in Space!
Many moons ago, the players in StarPirates came up with a new item. It was a rum, specifically Alpha Centauri Rum. It featured in many of the storylines created by players, and meshed very well into the canon of the SHG Universe. Thing about the SHG Universe is that it’s[…]
Busy Times at SHG
We just launched revised faction hp as well as done some upgrades on internal security vs. automation. The next one (likely next week?) is expanding the ways to support past PayPal. Players will like that. And so will Admins who get asked about non-PayPal methods about once a week. In[…]
The Effect of Player Tutorials on Returning Players
As with any game, we have a large number of players that take us out for a very brief test ride, knew immediately it wasn’t for them, and will never be seen ’round these parts again. We’d like to make everyone happy, but that’s not going to happen; we’re a[…]
Saturnalia in Full Swing on StarPirates
In the true spirit of Saturnalia, today the masters have become the servants! (Colour reversal of the variuos “ranks” in StarPirates). In addition, Stealth gear AND Class VI drive NOMs are findable for the next 48 hours. That Santa is leaking Stealth plating left, right and center! This is after[…]