A tragic day for me, my first forum site Jet Force Gemini Apex has bit the dust.
The owner apparently took the site down and deactivated his deviantart account. I joined that site about 2 years ago and it hurts to see it go but I can see why. After a long hiatus the moderator stopped coming to the site and the forum became a dead-zone after several people were banned due to spam and bad behavior.
I hoped in vain that something would come up, that MJJ would have something but it never happened.
The game was going to be a sequel to Rares underrated classic Jet Force Gemini and feature its own engine and completely new story. Unfortunately the engine proved too problematic for one person to code and was replaced with the unreal engine. I personally thought that the game was doomed from the start as to make a triple A like game using only a few people seemed ridiculous to me. One thing that sucks too is that I no way of contacting any of the members. Tragically I never bothered checking out their contact information.
One thing I liked about the site was the vault which I got all of the JFG music from. it also got me interested again in JFG. Enough to let me play a ROM of it again.
I feel this is somewhat my fault as I was supposed to review the story concepts and pacing but I just ended up forgetting about it due to school and my tendencies to procrastinate.
In any case today sucks for me, i'll get over it eventually but seeing the site gone tugs at my heart strings.