The ceremony of Russian Flash Awards was held on October, 24, during Russian Internet Week.

Apart from the awards “Technical achievement” and “Game” known to us, we were taken by surprise when got the “Grand Prix” for “the best project presented at the contest during its lifetime”.

Last year the award looked like a neutralized grenade framed in a brick, thus the guys had some problems in the airport. This year customs examination was followed by the words “you have the bag filled with some odd stuff”.

I must admit, to write a message about yourself seems kind of weird, but interesting as well.

My name is Eugenia Startseva and I’m a newcomer at “Alternativa”. My job is to sell licences to russian and foreign developers – very captivating activity!

If you are interested, write to startseva@alternativaplatform.com

send message on http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugeniastartseva

or ask in skype jane.startseva

Thanks for your attention!

Alright, we’re kinda getting back to real life and we can tell you something about two «Tanki Online» parties we had this weekend.

At 4th of June we did small and very nice evening for close friends and partners in our friends’ WoodHouse Cafe.

At right pic you can see SUN, she’s one of the best project beta-testers. Cafe boss James is standing there too.

That evening may be called informal. Open party at June 6th may be called pure trash mess badaboom:

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Almost a month has passed from the closed beta launch. There was about 600 testers who have discovered more than 200 bugs and helped us a lot by making notes and suggestions. Nevertheless, there’s still much work to do. We have plenty of ideas and of course there are bugs to fix. We’ll work hard on all this stuff during next months.

Now, we invite you to participate in open test of Tanki Online!

We just got back from Game Developers Conference in Moscow. We’re “Best game without publisher” and “Best technology”, hurray!

With a great satisfaction let us invite our readers to take part in closed beta-test of “Tanki Online” game.

To get your invite code please drop us a letter to tanki@alternativaplatform.com
We’ll be also glad to get your name, occupation, company name and a reason of interest (but we’ll send you invite code even without that).

The discussion is on the forum.

Please be constructive and positive to a painful debugging process.

Hurray!

We got a lot of questions about preparing models for Alternativa3D, so the engine could display them fast. Here’s a short help article from Makc for you. Let us know if you have more questions.

For online programming fans there’s a good service — wonderfl. From this moment it has Alternativa3D library connected, have fun.

It’s a global you-know-what, and Alternativa presents three new people in the team. To be honest, they’re here for several months already, talented and hardworking.

Mikhail Yesutin, Flash-engineer

Evgeniy Sushkov, 3D-artist

Olga Danilova, Flash-coder

Hurray!

We got more than 5800 registered users, and it’s really cool! However, our JIRA bug-tracking system thinks different — we began to have some troubles with users database.

Developers list :)

This system not popular among our users, so we decided to close automatic access. If you need to use it, drop us a line to management@alternativaplatform.com.