As you likely already know, things have changed quite a bit in the land of Tex Murphy over the last year. After the successful Kickstarter campaign last spring, Tex will soon be gracing our screens again in Tesla Effect, the long awaited sequel to Overseer. With that revival came a strong desire to bring back my site, not just in name, but with all (or most) of the content as it stood when it was last online in October of 2009. And so, here is Alcatraz, back and this time on Weebly. While I am still a slave to a host that could theoretical shut down the way Geocities did, I'm hoping that if this site proves popular enough, I may invest in setting it up free from such chains - but we shall see.
In any case, the Alcatraz you are on now is almost identical in content to the original site, save for a few items I felt were no longer valuable in the modern age and in a few cases, some downloads linking to external sites were lost. But I always kept a copy of my site on my computer, so I was able to restore 90-95% of the original content. Even those I felt had no particular place anymore can be found under Miscellaneous Stuff. In there, you will find some goodies, like the original A Black Sun Ascending movie description, and some not-so-goodies like how to run UAKM on Windows ME.
The Games, Novels and Downloads section are all mostly intact, with some redesigns, both out of necessity with the tools at my disposal and also because some of my original site's design elements sucked. That said, I am still toying with this site, so don't be surprised if you find visual changes. I would appreciate any feedback, so please shoot me an email at [email protected] with your comments or suggestions or leave a comment on this blog post. I'm also not much of a graphic artist, so if someone out there wants to create a better logo for the top of this site pro bono, please go ahead. I can't guarantee I'll use it, but I will be grateful regardless.
You will also notice that I am on Twitter. If you follow me, I will inform you of site updates as well as any other random things that I may want to say. I'm not much for using Twitter for every little thing I do, so don't worry, I won't bombard you with 50 tweets a day :)
My hope is to keep this site going for as long as there is still a Tex Murphy community to support it (which I suspect will be a long, long time, even if Tesla Effect proves to be Tex's last hoorah). I'm open to the idea of guest bloggers so if you have some experience you'd like to share, let me know, and I may just post it! Be sure to stay tuned. While I am bound by confidentiality with regards to any Mutant League-only information, I will provide as many details as I can about the upcoming Tex adventure, and once Tesla Effect is released you can join me in my experience through the game and start browsing all of the Tesla-related content I have provided for all of the other Tex games.
Thanks for visiting, and I hope you make Alcatraz a regular stop!