Eric, happy birthday!I'm grateful to you for creating this awesome game that I found fascinating in my prepubescent years. I found this game back when I was obsessed with Minecraft which I couldn't run properly on my severely weak HP Office PC. I started playing online browser-based flash games after I got fed up of playing Minecraft on 30 FPS with occasional seizure-inducing lag spikes. One day, I found Plazma Burst 2's website as I was surfing the internet for flash games I could play to death. I played the singleplayer campaign for a bit until I directly hopped into multiplayer. I was lagging a lot in both the European and the American servers. However, I realized I was actually enjoying this multiplayer mode even though I was suffering from constant lag spikes and stuttering.
I meddled around the website just to find a powerful level editor, a fun site chat and a forum full of interesting folks. I adored each and every one of those services. Especially, it is the Advanced Level Editor which has a special place in my heart because I know I went haywire for hours exploring all the possibilities of this extremely flexible tool which I could use as a playground for my imagination and creativity. The results of me using the ALE were mediocre to downright awful maps. However, I loved it. No, I mean, I really, really
LOVED it.
I was able to find an eclectic online community in the forums that had all kinds of people. It was quite interesting to go through the topics there from time to time and I had this period once when I was hopping onto the forums constantly than playing the game itself just to read a few diverse topics and comment on them. Then, I'd proceed to impatiently wait for what people would reply with to my thoughts in that specific topic. I made a ton of friends, enemies and frenemies in the forums. I truly had one hell of a memorable time there.
Honestly, I never hanged around in the site chat as much as I did in the ALE and the community forums although this doesn't mean I cannot reminisce about using it. I was able to become a pain in the ass in the site chat a few times racking up one to two mutes if my memory supports me. Might've been in the forums too. Anyways, I've come a long way with this community that was built around the game that you created for which I cannot thank you enough. With that aside, I won't bore you more. Cheers!
Freedom's from, not to.