Galactic Melee coming back

I let Galactic Melee die for a while. I lost heart to put any time into it and I didn’t want to pay the server fees anymore. However, last week I met with someone who expressed interest in possibly buying it, and who may have the resources to do so. I’m putting it back online on my second computer, and now that I have a static IP I can actually host it myself. This has been bothering me for a long time. In fact some nights I wake up in the middle of the night filled with anxiety over all the time and money I lost. So I’m happy it’s going to be up again.

The main problem is I don’t know how the provisioning system works with Aria, and there was some weird thing being done to connect to the database. OBDC or something like that. So I’m going to have to figure that out over again. I wish I had used PostgreSQL originally for the database stuff. The server will probably be back up tomorrow in any event. The webpage is up as soon as the DNS change propagates through the internet.

There’s really two ways to go with the game. One is to hang onto it as I have been doing in case a buyer or investor comes around. There’s a very small chance I could make back my money that way. However, as I’ve heard finding an investor is a full-time job, and not something I’m interested in actively doing. The other is to open-source it and import it as a game demo into RakNet. I’ve wanted a good game demo in RakNet for a long time and nothing could possibly beat this. Doing that doesn’t make me money directly, but it does increase interest in RakNet. It’s also satisfying because it means I invested in a year and almost $100K into RakNet rather than investing a year into nothing.