Sunday, November 28, 2004

Another quick update. E-mail should be caught up to speed save for anything since yesterday, so finally the month's worth of unreplied E-mails are done. Also we have three new links on our Links page, one of them getting up there to the Top 5 Links, so they're worth checking out. Lastly in sad news, it seems that was our number one link, Zelda no Densetsu, is down for the count. They went through a bad spell of having their server hacked and then a few issues. It's very sad to see them go.

Hopefully all going well, The Book of Mudora will be updated with Chapter 31 sometime this week, maybe as early as Tuesday. We certainly shall see.

~ The Missing Link

(American) Thanksgiving Day, 2004

I wasn't sure I would get this update done tonight since I had gone to see Stomp in concert, but I got back much earlier than I expected. Thus, you guys get to profit from it. Several of you have been wondering when Eloze would be updated again; well, it now has. The second segment, "The Garden of Farore," has been posted, and I encourage you all to read it. It's simply a phenomenal story and a wonderful read! There's thirteen new chapters posted, so now is the time to get cracking! I will make one sidenote; apparently there were a ton of nuance formatting errors in the story's prologue, and I'm surprised Dark Link hasn't yelled at me ad nauseum for that. They have been fixed, and so now it should look much better. It's not worth a reread (since it just deals with paragraph formatting and whatnot), but if you haven't read it yet, all the better.

Oh, and one last thing. My next goal is to get my all of my E-mail read and replied to. That's really the last thing I'm ridiculously behind on. The oldest E-mail I haven't answered is about a month old, and most of the E-mails I have haven't been replied to because they'd have taken more than two sentences to fully give a respectable answer! (That means your question was good!) So if you haven't heard from me yet, don't worry. Hopefully I'll take care of that this weekend.

Again, for those of you in the States, have a Happy Thanksgiving!

~ The Missing Link

Wednesday, November 24, 2004

Three new screenshots for the new Gamecube Zelda game. They can be found on the respective game page. Or you can just view them here.

Also, the OZE will be receiving a slight change in the format. In light of this, I pulled out some sample entries, which you can view here and here. I updated the Job Openings page to reflect that.

~ Masamune

Well, it's about time I stop slacking, don't you think? Today, the moment you've all been waiting for: the inevitable massive update. We've got three updates today, and there are definitely more on the way. So let's take care of business.

Normally this wouldn't be big news, but after so many weeks of me being swamped with work, this certainly seems like big news! Chapter Thirty, "The Season of Chaos," of The Book of Mudora is finally finished. It's been a chapter I'm sure many of you have been dying for, and I apologise for delaying it for so long. This puts us halfway into The Oracle of Seasons story. This marks give or take the official halfway mark in the entire story, give or take a chapter or two. However with The Minish Cap on the way, there is the potential that this could change. However, viola, there you go. Hopefully Chapter Thirty-one will be up sometime next week.

Second, Some Girl has made us a new splash image for the website. It's also viewable in our Art Gallery if you want to see it there. She hopes you enjoy it!

Thirdly, information on the two new staff openings is up. We are looking for two positions: an Encyclopedia Writer and a new Interactive Director to replace Ganonguy, who is no longer with us. We're looking for a few good Hylians! Think you have the stuff to be part of the TGA team? Please take a look at our Job Openings page to see if you qualify and to see how to apply.

Whew! What an update! There will be much more later. However, since I probably won't get the chance to update before Thursday, to all of our American readers out there, may you have a Happy Thanksgiving this Thursday, and make sure to take a few moments out of the hustle and bustle of the beginning of the holiday season to give thanks in your life to where thanks is due.

~ The Missing Link

Friday, November 19, 2004

Well, the quarter of college is finally over. It's about bloody time too. After a roller coaster of the last so many weeks, it's due time for it to be so. This week was the most accursed of them of all after the incompetent Mathematics Department of my college lost my take-home test that I turned in (forcing me to redo it Tuesday night), only to have it turn up the next morning after I had finished it a second time. Needless to say, this hasn't been a good week, or month. However, things are looking up; my schedule is now much, much more free, and that means it's catch-up time.

I've been delaying a lot of things over the course of the quarter because, at the time, I just couldn't handle it. However, we're going to hit the next month and a half strong, and there are many new things coming up on the horizon. It may take some time to get all of these up (because though school is out, I still have my life at work, (American) Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the New Year ahead of me), but I really do intend on getting these up in the coming weeks. Stuff to look forward to:

• The Book of Mudora, Chapters Thirty (and hopefully more!)
• The next chapters of Eloze
• A new image for the main page from Some Girl
• A call for a new staff member on TGA
• Hopefully a new interactive game for our Kokiri Forest section
• The return of updates to our Art Gallery

Perhaps I'm feeling ambitious. Perhaps I'm a little crazed. Perhaps I'm naïve into thinking I can do all of this. Well, we're going to try. I apologise to everyone for making you wait for so long on this stuff, but I thank you for your dedication, and hopefully I'll get back to a more normal update cycle very soon!

P.S. Do not under any circumstances ask me about the new staff position just yet; until it's announced officially, I have half a mind to disqualify anyone who does so... ;)

~ The Missing Link

Friday, November 5, 2004

No big update tonight, sadly. This is actually me sticking my head up out of the drowning waves of homework to check in. Between being sick and now, I've had a major computer science project (albeit an interesting one) going on, and let's not mention the utterly nasty and incredibly evil Take-Home Test of Doom!™ that took up 9½ hours worth of my time just to do five problems. (It utterly was the nastiest test I've ever taken in my eighteen years of public education.) Anyways, there are only two weeks left to the quarter. I feel bad that I've let Chapter Thirty hang for so long, as well as E-mail correspondence, as well as so much other stuff. I promise to get on the ball in two weeks. I'll at least have the time then to do a lot more around here. Again, my deepest apologies!

~ The Missing Link