What Happend to CoLa?

Some people have been asking about the 'CoLa' games, such as Quatryn, DigitHunt. When we switched over to the new store, we got Rich Diamond and Mad Scientist running, but we haven't yet got the CoLa games going.

We've been working like mad to get the CoLa stuff up, and it is very close. We were just finishing up our new store and new website, including user accounts, when our old webhost flamed out on us, so we had to switch everything over to a new webhost. The good news is that the new webhost is a lot more professional, and actually costs about 1/6 of what the old host cost, so that's great. But we had to change all of our online code because they didn't support the same types of databases we were using on the old host. The opportunity this gave us, however, was that we could add the new accounts to our site, and a new look and feel. So now you can get your own unlock codes on our website. If you need a code on the weekend or late at night, no problem, you don't have to wait for someone to reply to you.

Another snag we hit is that our DSL provider decided to put more protection on sending emails, without telling us (that would have been too helpful), so for a while this broke our store. People couldn't get their codes after buying a game. And we couldn't email them to tell them the codes! The good news is that this will help cut down on spam, but the bad news is that it cost us a lot of time to fix our system to their new standards.

So last week I was doing a final test of CoLa and the new games...and we ran into another wall. Microsoft changed some things with their new Vista operating system, which broke several things in CoLa. For example, they don't want anyone downloading programs across the web (except for themselves!), which is in general a good thing as this cuts down on viruses. But unfortunately it also cut down on CoLa! Arrgh!

I am finishing up the workaround now. I'm testing about 7 of the CoLa games. So we are getting close (and not just in geological terms, either!). The good news with this is that we have many new CoLa games, and our older games have all been improved. We have a new style of Rich Diamond game called Eldkim, we've got a Chess Game, several word games, some math games and more!

For our customers who have CoLa games now, we appreciate your patience. Next week we hope to be sending you information on how to get the new version of the CoLa games. Let's just hope nobody else decides to thwart our efforts! We've got some new stuff I'm sure you will enjoy...

-dave