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Monday, February 07, 2011

This Week at ADB, Inc., 30 January - 5 February 2011

Steve Cole reports:

This was supposed to be the week we started serious work on Star Fleet Admiral and Star Fleet Marines, but it didn't turn out that way. We lost about half of productive design time to the weather. (Snowmaggedon: It was very cold, freezing the pipes and sometimes shutting down internet. We couldn't even get to the office before 11am and had to leave at 5:30pm to get home by dark, due to the roads. While that only cut out five hours from each day, all of that came out of new product design time.) What new product design time was left was used fixing glitches in FC Reference Rulebook 6a. Even late on Saturday afternoon, we were still fixing little typos. Sigh.

The spam storm peaked at 1105 on Monday.

Our first upload to DriveThru RPG (PD20M core rulebook) was declared the pick of the week by them and sold at a blazing rate. We sold the first slider games for the iPhone via the Apple Store (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/federation-slider/id416344275?mt=8). Our page on Facebook reached and exceeded 650 friends.

Steve Cole worked on RRB6a, did a page or two of CL#43, looked at some parts of C3A and CL#43 that Steve Petrick did, exchanged pleasantries with Starship Artemis, finished Communique #62 and sent it to the staff, sent Joel everything he needs for Hailing Frequencies for February 2011, and wrote the art plan for the first six months.

Steven Petrick worked on CL#43 and C3A. He finished the three-engine Andros and was moving on to work on their seeking weapon. Battle Group pairings were issued for CL#43, allowing each player to divide his ships to raid his opponent's convoy while guarding his own.

Leanna kept orders and accounting up to date, but missed one day due to Snowmaggedon.

Mike was out with the flu most of this week, but when here, dealt with an unusually large wholesaler order.

Joel did website updates (for the Ranger pages) but actually couldn't get here most of the week due to Snowmaggedon.

Jean worked with Joel to get the Ranger pages updated, posted the blogs, and kept our page on Facebook updated.