Lovecraft SlashDotted!

Well, an ungainly amount of my time since yesterday evening has been dedicated to keeping our machines up at Skotos. Y'see the Lovecraft Comic that I mentioned in my last posting got slashdotted. And boingboinged. And ended up one of the top delicious links for the day. And was linked to at least 1300+ times according to feedster.

Apparently the moral of the story is that Lovecraft + comic = traffic.

I've been getting some nice comments too. Here's one:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/amberite/370517.html
"I was expecting cheese, but the actual thing was extremely well done, a loyal pastiche, stylistically and atmospherically capturing the tone of the original work."

There were some others, but I lost track of them amidst the deluge.

A SlashDotting

For the curious, here's what a slashdotting looks like.

First, the machine where we originally had everything:



Then the machine where we moved many of the biggest files to sometime yesterday evening (2200 or 2300 I'd guess, looking at the graphics:



It looks like we had 42,000 people read at least the first page of the comic, and 3,700 read it all the way through. And hopefully some of them will try out the game too.

Comic: http://www.lovecraftcountry.com/comic/
Game: http://www.lovecraftcountry.com/home/games/

Tonight: well deserved gaming.