*sigh*  Your going to make me join Twitter.....

Sammual

No, I think you can view via that web link!  I mean, the more followers the better, but this is more to keep players in the loop, not to get a trillion-zillion followers.

Though, if we ever get a Trillion-Zillion followers, I wouldn't complain   

'Cause that's a big number.

Umm...tweet?

That's great, Boogie!  Whatever works is much appreciated.

Any word on that Alpha?

For the last few months we've been just getting features into the game without really taking a step back to play from the users' perspective (read: not much polish was going on).

Brad has come in and changed focus to polishing a very simple core that we can give out to you guys, then reintroduce features and polish them up.

So far it's going very well...this week it's all about getting those load times down. It only takes 5s to make a random map, but up to 1m40s to get into the game.  We've gotten it down to 24s on my machine, I we feel there's still improvements that can be done.

And and silly as I find it sometimes, Twittering our progress seems the best way (ATM) to keep our fans informed but keep on task.

Thanks Boogie I'm not a big twitter fan, but I'll suffer it for Elemental

Is there some way to get twitter to send it's updates to my IM client? I hate cell phones.

I'm new to this too, so we can all learn together

There's an RSS feed linked on the page, so you could use that and never actually have to go to Twitter itself.

It's probably a good idea for this sort of short post, a dev journal would be overkill for updates about load times.

Fine....(makes a account) more INFO!

Know where is a better place then Twitter to write small one line updates?

irc.stardock.com
#elemental

Not for people who can't sit in IRC all day to watch for them.

The only thing that I use Twitter for is for following game devs (pretty much just the Natural Selection 2 team) so this is awesome! I get excited by the little snippets of development talk just like what was just posted =D

PS. I love your logo! Super cute!

Excellent information...  will gamers notice gameplay improvements on quad-cores and greater?  

Also how's the 64_bit OS  testing going?