ALTTF Invades Joystiq!

We had been hinting at something big for some time now, but it’s finally official: your editors of A Link to the Future will be writing a weekly column for Joystiq!

Don’t worry, we’re not leaving ALTTF behind for this. You can still expect the same kind of commentary and analysis that you’ve come to expect from us, but this will simply be in addition to our current work on the site.

The column is called “Counting Rupees” and is focused on the business behind gaming. You can check out our first one here.  Enjoy!

Happy Birthday to Us

It’s hard to believe, but today marks the 1-year anniversary of alinktothefuture.com.

Actually, if you want to get technical, our first post went up a year and 2 days ago, but since I forgot to mention it then, today is exactly 1 year from when we actually first officially welcomed our visitors.

Coming up this year we’ll continue our unparalleled commentary and continue to make some improvements to the site.  Also, I know we’ve teased about this a little bit before, but very soon we should have some exciting news to share.  Stay tuned.

In any case, thank you to all of our loyal readers for sticking with our humble site this past year.  When we started this, we honestly had no idea if anyone would visit us.  We thought maybe just a few of our friends would pop in once in awhile to comment, or that Geoff and I would simply conduct our usual IM discussions in comments instead (which, of course, we often do anyway).  But it’s expanded to more than that, and while we’re not anywhere near the big sites in terms of traffic, I’m proud of our small, but loyal, readership and the discussions that we have here.

You, the readers, make this all worth it.  Once again, thank you and keep stopping by!

Blargh

I currently have the flu, which is why posting’s been a bit light.  But we have some interesting news coming up - on several fronts - so stay tuned!

Still here

Sorry for the light posting recently.  It’s been very busy around here recently and while there are things that have come up that I’d like to comment on, I just haven’t had the time to post on them yet.  I’ll have some new things to post on soon.

Our Sister Store

Our friend Ludwig Kietzmann of Joystiq has passed along a few photos, which he took in Akihabara while at TGS. I’m particularly fond of the typeface they use, which reminds me of the retro “World of Tomorrow” ride at Disney World. Thanks, Ludwig!

*Quick Edit Jeff* - I’ve resized the images and created thumbnails. You can click on the thumbs for a bigger picture now.

Digg This

I thought I’d see what happened if we added a “Digg” function to our posts.  Now if you really like something you can submit it to Digg.  We’ll see how it goes.

I’m still working on fixing up the look of the “Recent Comments” sidebar as well.  Thanks for your patience.

Comments Sidebar

Just an update that I’m playing around with getting “Recent Comments” into the sidebar so that it’s easier to see and respond to people when they comment on various things.  Right now, as you can see, it’s installed, but it looks bad.  I’m still working on it a bit to get it to mesh well with the rest of the site, so please bear with me while I work on it.

In the meantime, you can at least enjoy it’s functionality.  Thanks!

Not Dead Yet…

Well, I’m back from my trip - but I’ve just moved, have no internet till tonight, and am in orientation for a new position from 8 am until 11 pm every day.  Will be hopefully posting later.

Off To Belize

Well, I’m off to Belize for the next week - look to Jeff to pick up the slack.

Officially Back

OK, I am now officially back.  In case you were wondering, this would be the reason I’ve been MIA.