Rémi and Morgan. (pixelated to the right by dotsMarc)

Or rather, since for practical reasons you usually call one person at a time, the first person I called when I started to think the Gamocracy idea could be something is Rémi. I did that because, on the one hand, the best idea is worth toilet paper if it’s not put in the right hands. And on the other hand, Rémi and Morgan can turn a toilet paper idea into a golden picture (just don’t tell their clients I said that).

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We just sent our first batch of beta keys. It’s the first time someone outside the four of us will browse Gamocracy. It’s nothing short of a great moment for us!

I don’t know about Morgan, dotsMarc and Rémi, but I find myself past the nervous stage. With the dice now rolling, it’s all about pushing and praying for a 6.

If you registered your email address and didn’t get a key, rest assured we’ll send more soon.

I’m also realizing that many of the people we’d like to see join in during the test phase, I’m talking friends and former colleagues mostly, actually didn’t register their email addresses. And I’m pretty sure some of them are expecting to get a key from the get go. So here’s a message to you guys: before you get offended because you didn’t get a key, and for the sake of our working hours (man, we already have tons to do!), it’d be great if you could register your email address to the right.

That would make things much easier on us because this way, we could put you in the hands of our robot.

See, I don’t know if you noticed already: we hired a robot to take some of the workload off of our shoulders. He’s nice and all.

Some people’s phone numbers you never write in an address book, you remember them by heart.

I was walking down the street in the early evening months ago when it came to my mind that this site I was thinking about, it wasn’t called Gamocracy then, could use some pixel art. Who was I gonna call?

It made no doubt, it was so obvious: a former captain of Good Game, the Counter-Strike team I managed, draws sprites for a living.

It’d been quite a while since we’d last talked but it didn’t bother me one bit, I decided to call him right away. I took the phone out of my pocket, dialed the number as I remembered it from a previous life and soon dotsMarc (self-portrayed here) was on the other end.

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