Felipe Orellana - Code Mania

Let me tell you about godaddy’s Copyright department! IT STINKS!

I have a server with them, where I host about 30 websites for clients of mine. One of my clients had used a picture he says he paid for a year ago on a top banner for his site that someone else built for him.  It turns out that the photographer has been trying to get my client to remove the image for about a year. What does the photographer do when my client doesn’t answer? He skips me, and goes straight to godaddy and reports a copyright violation on the entire server.

Needless to say, godaddy puts my server on suspension the second this happens without checking with me to remove the material… no call… they email me at an address on the server so I never see the email.  Being 3rd of July their their lazy ass customer support can’t/won’t talk directly with their copyright department so I got stuck with 29 pissed website clients until Monday, July 7th.

After paying a full year upfront(sadly), I am now contemplating moving to MediaTemple, with all my clients, domains and server. Don’t go with godaddy, they have no repect for their clients… non what so ever…

While searching for flash game competitions I stumbled on NONOBA a new website offering a Multiplater API written in .NET, and they are offering $15,000 to the most popular game built around their API by November, 2008.  What’s interesting about their API is that they are offering to host these multiplayer games at no cost to the developer. In a way they are trying to be come another KONGREGATE but with their multiplayer API.

While looking at their developer forum all last week, it seems to me that they are quickly aquiring interest from the flash game development community.  Considering that they are tring to provide most(if not all) the tools needed to build multiplayer games, their forum support is quite nice. Getting answers from the founders themselves as the API developers, you can pick their brains on what every you want about the APIs.

Though I have talked about the Multiplayer API written in .NET, they also have a high score & ranking API, a Data API, Achievements API, a distribution system, and statistics and tracking available.

Here are some examples of the multiplayer api in action:

While I have no affiliations to them, I am quite excited to try out their APIs and see how they drive this new medium.