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An update to the homepage of The Wasabi Project has been brewing for a while, and tonight I’m happy enough with it to release it out into the wild.

The new design dispenses with the over-sized banners for each project, replacing them with smaller icons, which frees up space for recent blog posts to be displayed on the homepage as well as making room for a scrolling panel of highlighted games, news, or what-have-you.

I expect to making some more changes to the design sometime fairly soon (in particular, I’d like to better categorize the completed games, and create a new space for projects that are works-in-progress), but I think this layout is already an improvement (and I hope you’ll agree).

The individual “play this game” pages will be getting a redesign soon as well; hopefully incorporating leaderboards, instructions, commentary, and links to related blog posts for each game (or at least, for each game to which all that content applies).

Well, it was more a silent, dreary collapse than an explosion.

Whatever one decides to call it, the server hosting The Wasabi Project had a flair-up of it’s chronic failure syndrome. Unfortunately, this means a handful of comments and updates were lost and most of the content needed to be rebuilt from older back-up copies.

The good news is, this minor disaster was a great excuse to finally pull the feeding tube out of the old sever and move to a new one. Hopefully the new host won’t be gasping for breath quite so often.