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Long Weekend RPT – For Labor Day weekend, in addition to Slayterday (All Day Saturday) we are adding Sunderday (All day Sunday).
Slayterday + Sunderday:
—-> Double XP <—-
—-> Bonus World Drops <—-
Continue to enjoy the boons from Slayterday until the early hours of Monday!
Play play play! Pew pew pew!
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For the third year in a row, Frogdice is leading a program to give video games to kids in schools throughout the region. This program began as a way to entertain and engage students during Covid quarantine, but has been so successful at exciting and reaching children that school districts have asked us to keep it going.
Last year we added Indiana and Ohio to our reach and we are continuing that in 2022. We will continue to work with many of our colleagues to give away hundreds of thousands of video game keys to kids throughout these states.
Frogdice has always been active in volunteering and speaking at schools of all levels. Our founder and CEO, Michael Hartman, is also a college professor in Kentucky (and previously in Ohio as well). We hope to spread the inspirational power of video games with as many kids as possible.
Kentucky has 685,167+ students enrolled in a total of 1,568 schools in 194 school districts.
Indiana has 1,041,369+ students enrolled in a total of 1,925 schools in 407 school districts.
Ohio has 1,729,916+ students enrolled in a total of 3,685 schools in 1,093 school districts.
That is 3.5 million students in over 1,500 school districts!
Our goal is to give at least 1 game key to every student who wants one!
Game developers: Would you like to donate keys to this cause? They can be for any platform or store. To avoid any issues, lets keep it to T rated games or lower. I don’t want to get in trouble distributing M+ games. All keys that are not sent to students will be sent back to the developers who donated them.
Please fill out this google form and we will coordinate with you.
Our players really worked hard to make sure we dominated the voting on Top Mud Sites in June, delivering a strong victory!
Excellent work! Thank you all so much. We noticed a significant surge in new players as a result, so it really makes a difference.
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This update includes several operations to move some elements of player housing
from where it is located to another area of the game.
This is a delicate procedure since things like storage within houses and other
elements are controlled during runtime. We are doing our best to control these
operations to zero impact on players, but be aware that it does come with
risks.
We will be making a backup of house data before any operation happens, so
nothing is irrecoverable. This will bring several advantages in the
administration of houses. This operation has been ongoing for several
months with planning and design and an unfortunate consequence of this
is that some houses have not been allocated yet that have been requested.
Once this has completed, house creation will resume. We apologise for that
delay, but hopefully this should be completed shortly.
This is all stage one of an ultimate design goal of a better player housing
design that will remove nearly all of administrative intervention for
creating houses and processing additional rooms. We’re excited to achieve
this future state for you so you may get what you’ve asked for sooner and
with less back and forth with administration.
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Last year Frogdice led a program to give video games to kids throughout the state of Kentucky. With many kids stuck at home due to quarantine, they were in need of some recreation as well as a reward for sitting in from of the computer doing zoom classes and homework. So we worked with some of our colleagues to give away hundreds of thousands of video game keys to kids throughout the entire state of Kentucky. This year we are looking to expand the program to include Indiana and Ohio.
Frogdice has always been active in volunteering and speaking at schools of all levels. Our founder and CEO, Michael Hartman, is also a college professor in Kentucky (and previously in Ohio as well). We hope to spread the inspirational power of video games with as many kids as possible.
Kentucky has 685,167+ students enrolled in a total of 1,568 schools in 194 school districts.
Indiana has 1,041,369+ students enrolled in a total of 1,925 schools in 407 school districts.
Ohio has 1,729,916+ students enrolled in a total of 3,685 schools in 1,093 school districts.
We would love to give at least 1 game key to every student who wants one and plays PC games.
Normally in the summer, public libraries offer a variety of video game related classes and activities. But Covid still has most of these events and classes cancelled. We can fill the gap!
Game developers: Would you like to donate keys to this cause? They can be for any platform or store. To avoid any issues, lets keep it to T rated games or lower. I don’t want to get in trouble distributing M+ games. All keys that are not sent to students will be sent back to the developers who donated them.
Please fill out this google form and we will coordinate with you.
https://forms.gle/EUKRxe3q4iSdsgzn8
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Join us all month for a TON of events and global buffs to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the best game with the best community on the internet.
Please put Saturday, June 19 – 9pm EDT on your schedule for the 25th Anniversary Reunion that will take place in game and on discord. We’d like as many old, new, and ancient members of our community to join us to tell tales and have a crazy time.
Click here for Full Details of All Events!
There are many other events scheduled throughout the month.
Thank you for 25 amazing years. We intend to have many, many more.
See you beyond the Threshold!
A new player race is coming to Threshold later this year. They are connected to the current world story and they are unique in a number of ways compared to all existing player races.
Read more about the Amborel’s here:
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We have all been fundamentally impacted in countless ways by the quarantines and school cancellations from coronavirus. Times like these are especially trying for kids who may not understand what is going on, why they can no longer play with their friends, why they don’t get to see their teachers, why they don’t have dances or graduations or other social events.
At Frogdice, we’ve seen growth of about 30% or more in usage across our online games. Steam has set multiple records for concurrent users. It is clear that for many people, gaming is a refuge. It is a hobby that can be enjoyed safely, and often socially with friends!
Frogdice is based in the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the United States. Kentucky has 685,167 students enrolled in a total of 1,568 schools in 194 school districts. Many of those students would love to pass some of their extra time at home gaming, but they cannot afford to buy new games. This is particularly true since so many families have taken hard financial hits of late. To resolve this problem, Frogdice is reaching out to game dev colleagues and friends to gather donated game keys that can be distributed to students throughout Kentucky.
Assuming we can get batches approved, Frogdice is pledging 150,000 ReignMaker keys and 150,000 Dungeon of Elements keys. That gets us almost half way to being able to give every student in Kentucky at least one game (hopefully more!).
Game developers: Would you like to donate keys to this cause? They can be for any platform or store. To avoid any issues, lets keep it to T rated games or lower. I don’t want to get in trouble distributing M+ games. All keys that are not sent to students will be sent back to the developers who donated them.
Please fill out this google form and we will coordinate with you.
https://forms.gle/EUKRxe3q4iSdsgzn8
If anyone would like to organize a similar endeavor in any other state or country, please feel free to contact me and I will assist as much as possible.
Thanks for helping kids and parents see another example of what a positive force video games are!
Wow! What an honor!
All the great things that make Lexington home to thousands of families and individuals also make it a haven for job searchers of all stripes, some looking for the very first time, others seeking a change of pace, and others still who are desperately calling every business they can find and hoping that their next big interview will be “the one.”
But there are new companies springing up across the Lexington area all the time, and this begs an important question for job searchers: which companies are the best for employees to work for?
We were curious, so, we hand-curated a list of the best companies to work for headquartered in and around Lexington, KY using data on salaries, company financial health, and employee diversity.
Lexington named 6th best city in the US to be a game developer, and Frogdice was one of two local studios mentioned!
“Lexington boasts the 26th best cost of living and 21st best mean salary for software developers making it a comfortable place to live for those with jobs. However, competition may be tougher in Lexington than in other cities on the list as there are only six game development studios in town, such as Frogdice and SuperSoul.”
Woo Hoo!