Dave

Hey Aaron! Welcome back to MWG, glad you've joined us all like in the good old'en days.

I love the idea of cronless crons, as long as you don't randomly lag a user out for ~30 seconds performing some crazy intense logic as they're the first visitor in a few days. This is a nice simple implementation though! Thanks for sharing. I'd still promote deferring heavy, long running operations to an actual crontab. I remember this whole idea came around partially due to everyone using hosting which didn't support crons lower than 15 minutes, so neat to see it's coming back (shameless plug: even though MWG hosting supports minute crons).

What's your budget for this project?

Great job @sniko 🙂

Just so people are aware you can purchase hosting with your account credit earned from Marketplace.

That's neat man! I'd make all the icons the same width so the text is always starting at the same point. You should also experiment with how a super long title might work.

I can endorse Sniko as a trusted member of our community! 😄

Based on the current global pandemic situation I thought it'd be fitting to start a thread for those whom are now, or always have been available for freelance work. Just respond here with some information about yourself, along with your experience, rates and work you'd be interested in doing.

It sounds like @SwiftGameR and @KyleMassacre were both interested.

Thanks for the kind words! Hopefully ColdBlooded will resolve this soon!

You're not that far from me! I think it's more of a regional thing at the moment but I'm sure the military will have different things imposed as the country needs your help. Well I'm glad I could throw some work your way! Let's keep working together. Oh damn, you still going into the office then?

I'm sorry about this, sadly it's out of my power to be able to withdraw your money from the MCCodes.com site, I'd recommend to continue pestering @ColdBlooded to get the withdrawal done. As @Dayo has said on the MWG marketplace I aim to pay people out within 24 hours, typically this has been within an hour (if I'm awake). I also offer bank transfer withdrawals in the UK & US so you can avoid PayPal fees.

If you've been awake for the past few weeks you'd have seen the global pandemic called coronavirus and have probably been effected by it. I'm interested to hear how it's effected / effecting your life. My company Adobe closed most of our offices and we're all working from home, I've been self isolating for 10 days inside my apartment. According to the news Austin, TX (where I live) will go into some form of lockdown tomorrow. I've got enough food for a few weeks so I feel fairly safe in my situation.

This looks amazing, great work! Excited to see it on the marketplace 🙂

I bet @SwiftGameR or @Dayo would love to write this feature!

Ah okay that sucks, yeah I was going to run ads on Facebook to see how they fair once I'm live, I'll share what happens with you gladly. Indeed! I'm a firm believer in building quality products, I do it all day at work so hopefully I can replicate that here. Yeah if I wasn't a programmer the development costs would already be in the thousands of dollars for the amount of work I've done on the code base. I've also had to redesign the header / outside areas to make them more... modern, so helpful also being a designer haha. Me too, hoping to open up an early private beta for a select few people to find any bugs before I let all the pre-registered users come and most likely break the game.

I haven't ran a game in a real long time, so let's see how well this first one goes. It's mad expensive preparing this game for release so let's hope it doesn't flop. If you have any tips on how to market these games effectively I badly need that information. Thanks man! Yeah it had a large player base at one point with fairly good activity, I've got a fair amount of work to bring the code and UI up to date along with balancing some things, so wish me luck! It was actually designed by Sergio from SosFactory: https://www.sosfactory.com/

Seems that SendGrid is having some issues, can you try again?

It's gonna sure be nice seeing this game back online. Alongside Prison Struggle Classic (https://prisonstruggleclassic.com/) which is owned by Glover 🙂

MusicBattle - Free to play MMORPG I'm very excited to announce that I have recently acquired Music Battle, a free to play MMORPG centered around becoming the best musician you can be in the gritty underworld that is the music empire. The game was originally released way back ~2008 and was an incredibly success but was sadly left to die by it's former owner. The game is based off the same formula as the original sister game Prison Struggle, meaning it has a solid play style, economy and user interaction baked in. Pre-registration All pre-registered users will get earlier access to a public beta version of the game along with in game perks come launch, you can pre-register on our temporary landing page here: https://musicbattle.online/ If you're interested in helping beta test in closed beta please send me a PM and I'll consider you to help out! Planned Improvements Before the public release there are a number of improvements I'm working on to ensure gameplay is fun, balanced and bug free. Update all code to use the latest PHP 7 / MySQL standards This in turn includes a large number of bug fixes, as jumping from PHP 5 to 7 introduces a lot of bugs Optimize any inefficient code to ensure the game runs as quick as possible Update the theme to be more friendly and understandable (and be the correct orientation!) Improve UI of all important features to bring them to a modern standard Rebuild registration & landing pages to improve conversion of sign ups Remove the hilarious amount of Flash / SWF files from the game Update donation / revenue strategy to remove as much "Pay to Win" elements from the game Once we've launched I intend to make frequent improvements to the game itself and the overall play style, this includes: Adding a footer style chat system to the game Responsive / mobile layouts along with potentially a dedicated app New features / functionality based on user feedback Screenshots Below you can see some initial screens of the game, I've revamped many aspects of the UI of the game along with improving the overall feel from the original look (which had a gross right menu bar).

No problem! I'll have to check this our later

No problem! Hope it works out 🙂

You might be better placing an ad on a freelancer site such as: https://www.upwork.com/ or https://www.peopleperhour.com/

You could make it so the publication process of the repository automatically packaged and uploaded / updated it to the marketplace. That'd be specific to your current project though. I'm happy to explore it but I don't have much free time to dedicate to build large features on the forum sadly.

It'd require a lot of custom development to facilitate it as we'd need to setup a Statis / composer repository which can handle authorization and purchases etc. What's your business case here?