Hi, I've gotta say something about this.
stolen game assets
We have used, as placeholders:
- Some of blockland's special brick shapes (removed permanantly from the game since tester build 0.3.0)
- Some of blockland's player textures (same situation as above)
- Blockland's stud texture (this is, in fact, a royalty free texture also used in some company logos and also by wikipedia as a normal mapping example)
- Blockland's "load bls finish" sound (plays when you use the bls importer to load a save file, removed with the bls importer since 0.3.0)
At no point have we advertised screenshots or videos of the game while these placeholders were in use. This is one of the main reasons the project is being kept under wraps and we're working tirelessly to get 0.3 ready and tested so we can start marketing our game.
extremely super secretive elitist for literally no reason
I'm not sure where you got this idea from. The server is private for the reasons discussed above. We do not want unfinished work plastered across the blockland forum.
allows certain POPULAR blockland users ONLY
10% of the testers have never heard of blockland, and more than half of the server's population, including some people posting here, don't actually have build access and are just there to follow development. There are people in here that are disinterested by blockland and have never played it, but like how we've revamped the graphics and build controls in our videos. How exactly would making a policy of letting a lot of popular people in help with keeping a low profile?
and rids of users only THEY deem annoying.
This isn't something we do at all and makes it sound like you broke one of our clearly defined rules (see #rules) and got thrown out. We are incredibly passive moderators (we happen to have something more important to do), so congratulations. Is that what this is about?
