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World 9 Blog No. 10
This week, we are featuring music from the composer Harry Gregson-Williams from the movie ‘The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian’ to finish off with our ‘Sounds of Great Fantasies’ series (blogs 1-10). Now, we move on into the waters of the unknown in our next series of blogs, volume 2, which will begin production and release in 2010! This current blog is not the end, nor the begining. It is a good example of how far the blogs have come, as well as how far our world has come. Since I took up to making these blogs last winter, there have been many great wars, mighty players, and glorious empires that have risen… and fallen.
I would also like to take this time to wish everyone a happy New Years’ and I hope everyone who had Christmas had a great one and everyone who didn’t had a wonderful day. 
Without further adue, the blog:
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2009/360/0/a/TW_Blog_vol__1_no__10_by_Lord_Samulis.swf
If you use Firefox (unless you want to download the blog) or are having trouble with the link above, use this one:
http://lord-samulis.deviantart.com/art/TW-Blog-vol-1-no-10-148134790
Since I have moved down to possible monthlies, I have been able to focus my attention on some new features and background art. I hope this blog shows that I’m not here to be a slacker or a quitter.
It’s a hard thing, to be forced into being not able to provide what you promised, but time always seems to run too fast whenever I am around…
We’ve had some new wars come up (=D-N= declared on DNS earlier in November, and some treaties have been signed with RAW… no one really knows where all this is going to end up…) and some changes (=D.N= disbanded; INVITE, [IB], AND [IB]NX have semi-merged into a single tribe, SETO).
Moving on, here’s the blog:
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs51/f/2009/335/b/d/Blog_no__9_by_Lord_Samulis.swf
If you have a slower connection, follow this link:
http://lord-samulis.deviantart.com/art/Blog-no-9-145450761
or want to view the other blog videos (4-9), follow this link:
http://lord-samulis.deviantart.com/gallery/#_browse/scraps
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact me ingame, on the forums, send an e-mail to Samulis@live.com.
-Samulis
Due to my lack of time to formulate blogs, I will now release Monthlies, starting next weekend. These will be (hopefully) as good as the old weeklies and should hold us till summer, when the blog will hopefully expand again. I have been working on a large animation with a friend, so Adobe Flash has been cluttered with that among other things. My dayly schedule is thrown into chaos and I can’t find the four hours of straight work (or the focus) to formulate a good blog.
HOWEVER…
This does not mean i’m quitting, it just means i’m going to work at a gear that is more approachable with my wacky schedule. If someone with either skills in animation, time to gather information and resorces, or someone who is willing to take on a column for the blog approaches me, I may be able to produce bi-weeklies. Hopefully winter = more time on my hands, but you can never be too sure…
Over and out!
-Samulis
This week we are met again with our several great wars. The video blog has some great new features, and we have a winner from last week’s contest! Please enter this week’s contest. I hope some of the previous problems brought forward by watchers have been fixed, if not, that’s a different problem.
Thanks,
-Samulis
http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs50/f/2009/263/1/2/blog_no__7_by_Lord_Samulis.swf
Hello fellow citizens of Tribalwarsland!
Well, it’s not the beginning of the end, it’s more of the end of the beginning of this war. Now it will enter a more subtle phase, with scattered mass OPs and such spread throughout the durration. This is when the real test of strength and endurance begins and several world superpowers collide and come apart in a sort of dance of death.
Anyway, Flash practically drove me insane in the process of making this, so I will probably make a SECOND HALF of the film instead of just one part. Edit: I found the high-quality sound was making flash go crazy, so I changed it to high quality mp3 files, which flash LOVES. This week is John Williams week, featuring some of his most known compositions. If you can name all four pieces and/or which movies they are from and either mail the list to me or post it in the W9 Blog discussion forum, your name will be featured in next week’s blog. I also added some fun side-features and such so you don’t all get bored to death. The War Stats are MISSING. I will add them tomorrow. There are a few un-removable glitches that pop in and out, so don’t panic if it freezes on a blank page that says ‘nobling map’ in the top corner, just refresh the page.
http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs50/f/2009/257/4/6/blog_no__6_by_Lord_Samulis.swf
In other news:
Half-Priced coins are to be implemented in the upcomming weeks (according to King Wenseslesas Shugarpuff of Tribalwarsland in a recent mass message to the world).
[IB] has sprung back and holds a fair-sized harvest on the nobling map.
DNS is continuing to run over RAW, however, according to the numbers, ~DNS~ has mysteriously lost over half their points in the last several weeks.
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Roger, Roger!
-Samulis
for the sake of simplicity, I will keep my regular dialogue short. There is one thing, and only one thing that has been uttered out of the many mouths of World 9 for the past week- war. As I last stated, DNS and the RAW family have declared war on each other, finalized in a statement on the forums by the duke of DNS. In this standard blog edition I bring forth into the light the events of this past week, mostly the war stats. Added onto new backgrounds is the newest edition of interviews, brand-new features, and the return of commentaries on the nobling map.
And, of course, the greatest improvement in the last two weeks, you now only have to click a button once to move, and the weeks’ theme for music is Lord of the Rings- showcasing several beautiful pieces by Howard Shore for the trilogy.
Without further a due, The Blog:
http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs22/f/2009/250/3/1/blog_no__5_by_Lord_Samulis.swf
-Samulis
You heard me folks, DNS has declared war on RAW today, September 1st, at 7:53 GMT-5 time on the forums:
http://forum.tribalwars.net/showthread.php?t=165055
This brings forward an important issue I covered several days ago: What WOULD happen if they warred? Well, the stats say DNS will sweep RAW clean off the map, but mabye our friends over in RAW will have some tricks.
Here are the official sides for this World War:
Side 1:
Tribes: RAW SOFt EDGE EDW Devil
Side 2:
Tribes: DNS DNSPC ~DNS~ ANK
This war encompasses several of the top 10 tribes, thus making it a true World War. Be prepared for a week of blood and slaugter worse than any this world has ever seen, my fellow world 9ers, be prepared. The first stats have been a pretty clear sweep with DNS delivering some crushing blows. In only the first 24 hours, there were over 60 noblings (that was just after war was declared). More information on the war and some opinions (very slanted towards DNS) can be found at the thread above. I will release more info atleast twice a week from now on, to supliment the regular weekly flash video, although most estimates claim that RAW will be crushed within 7 days…
-Samulis for World 9
I’m not kidding when I say ‘it’s the silence before the storm’. RAW and DNS, the two largest tribes (with the two largest families) officially canceled their diplomatic agreement of ‘Alliance’ this week, and, as a result, the world is thrown into anarchy and fright. If these two mighty super-powers collide, this could be one of the largest wars in W9 history- and perhaps the most damaging one.
With all that aside for now, I would like to apologize again [for the 50th time]. It appears that the last four hours have flown by again. This time, I’m stuck in the middle of either banging my head on a wall from frustration or collapsing from exhaustion. Luckily, I managed to convince myself that I can add on what is missing tomorrow. I have added a basic ‘updates’ page on the video, so feel free to check out the updates. The one big thing you should know concerns the music and the ‘home’ buttons. You must click the home buttons twice, once to stop the music, and a second time to go to the home menu. Also, STATISTICS ARE MISSING FOR TONIGHT. I did not have enough time to publish up the statistics, so please wait for tomorrow evening (or morning).
Without further a due, the video. Please note, it is VERY big (12.4 MB about), so it will be on the non-Tribal Wars website, DeviantArt.
Thanks for watching! Comments and Questions may be directed either in-game or on the forums at http://forum.tribalwars.net/showthread.php?t=157305.
-Samulis
World 9 News: A Changing War
Once again, thanks for visiting the blogs. To me, blogging is not just a privilege, but a job, and one that each blogger must work hard to achieve the highest quality work. I take this both literally, and physically. For the past two weeks, you (the viewers) have been treated to Flash movies instead of the standard. Last week, you got the special privilege of being able to travel through the post using buttons. This week, I have brought some new technology along- Drop-down menus. You will have complete control of the interactive video… more of what I think of as a PROGRAM! I just spent THREE HOURS on this build, using every ounce of knowledge on Flash, Drawing, Buttons, ActionScript (flash’s version of code), and whatever else was sitting in my head to make this. Without further a due, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the greatest project I have ever put together in Flash to this date.
For the first time in TW Blog history, there will be a blog release WITHOUT any information in the release itself. If you watched my last release, I made a rather simple flash animation. This time, I really went overboard with graphics, sound, and quality of information.
Thanks everyone for waiting this long. Right now, it’s 2:00 in the morning and I just spent the last four hours working on the latest flash version of the blog. Please be aware that the movie is INTERACTIVE, meaning you can click the buttons. I’m sorry if it is lacking information compared to normal releases, but I want to see what all of you think about video versions vs. text and graphics versions. Please, even if you aren’t on world 9, give me your feedback in the forums at http://forum.tribalwars.net/showthread.php?t=157305.
Thanks,
-Samulis
And without further adue, the blog. Just click the link to the video which is attached to this release.
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