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Dear Shinobi, Today, we are happy to celebrate the 1st year of development of Nin Online in it's current form! To celebrate, I've written out a short article in hopes of getting you to feel my joy. Back in the days Back in 2006, when I was just 12, I got really into the Naruto series. I thought to myself "how cool would it be to have an online game where you could be a ninja in this universe". This was way before I even knew what copyright laws were. I had set too high expectations for myself and started a community in which I could not satisfy, and I ended up disappointing them time and again. In 2009, I announced the end of the game's development. I knew I wouldn't have been able to finish the game with my abilities. I was 16 at that point. It's been 1 year since the day I opened Adobe Photoshop and re-envisioned the game of my dreams as it is today. On this day a year ago, I restarted the project which I had attempted to create as a kid, the game which back then I realized I was too incompetent to create, with the promise in one final email to my supporters that "I'll bring back the project one day, and make it work." A ray of hope With the knowledge and experience I had gained in the years following Nin Online's death, I decided to bring back the game. I didn't expect much, I set my targets low. I just wanted to make a simple RPing game as a tribute to the old times. I opened my usual design tools and started pixeling away at what would now be the basis of Nin Online's new visual style. Overwhelming support Then came everyone in this community. A large community of members flocked here and put their hopes in me and my new attempt. We managed to launch a great, successful first alpha test where hundreds of members logged in at once to explore the world developed by our team. An overwhelming amount of people with faith in our team have donated to the game to keep the project funded, allowing us to have conveniences such as a server to work with 24/7 and to commission artwork for the game. Helping hands from Eclipse community ensured the smoothness of the alpha, with people familiar with the engine providing us support in our time of need and offering support to the members of the forum as well! Determination This support from our community of course powered our determinations to create a great game and to continue to grow our vibrant community here on the forum and here we are a year later, with our developers working hard at creating content and features for the game and our moderators managing the community and all it's spunk. Words of thanks No words can express my gratitude, which goes out to all the long-standing members of the community, the ninjas here who have stayed with us since the start of the project. The whole team is thankful for your support, and we hope that you continue to do so for as long as it takes for us to create this game! Personally, I am moved by the enthusiasm that everyone has shown since day one. Your community and game There has been so many occasions in which the opinions and ideas of the community members has impacted the decisions made on the game itself, and as such, your criticism (though I make myself out to be a authoritarian leader) has shaped the game to what it is and will be in the years to come! Alpha Test 3 Now for the announcement you've all been anticipating. We are set to open the game world for testing again on the 31st July for all Gold/Silver Ninjas. This will be in a matter of weeks! There is a lot of new features and contents, and we've refined out base systems a lot, ironing out old bugs. However, as we anticipate new bugs and problems, we will be weeding it out to our biggest supporters, the Gold/Silver Ninjas before opening it to everyone. Once we've done substantial tests with this closed group and deemed the game stable enough for an open release, we will open the servers to everyone. I hope everyone is as excited as we are! Sincerely, Rory

''The internet is 95 percent porn and spam'' - Margaret Atwood I present my masterpiece:

Since my preferred method of art, pixel art, is not accepted, I tried my hand at drawing.

imma post one that i drew u guys might be surprised but its not my best work tho Here they are i drew them both in 10 minutes sorry about the upside down one.

You see I'm an innovator, and I can see the foresight of what this can do for not just the community, but for the business as well. To further explain what I'm trying to get into, I'm not introducing a product.. but a masterpiece of art. ~ ~ But before we look at the visuals, I'd like to get in deeper details what motivated me to make this art and how I believe it can help not only the Naruto world, but Ninonline to build a solid foundation for success. ~ ~ Explaining the challenges I had to go through is easier said than done as I have a patent still pending so I'm releasing this art in hopes that it will not be stolen. The main motivation for doing this fine art can be relocated with 3 words. Competition, people, and support. Now to the art. Ever since I could remember I've always had a sand fetish. It's hard for me to tell people in person but It's been a subtle problem I've been dealing with as a kid, so in hopes of talking with you guys I want to get out of the sand shield. However I still support, and sniff different qualities of sand. With that being said, I figured I'd make my art relevant to the sand village, and then the idea came to me. ~ ~ As an innovator you can always try to find a suitable product for the marketplace which helped me in this case find a vulnerability for art in the Sand Village. Because of my personality and connections to art I always feel like I need to create something new that also can be linked to my past. For everything I do, I have a story behind it. So in this case I would link back to my sand fetish and target the women who seek pleasure as well as having the same sand fetish as me. So I said to myself, how could a woman pleasure herself as well as keeping her fetish with sand?It can be as easy as putting sand in your va****, however it turns out messy with that method so I took one step higher and found an opportunity for the art to be efficient and successive in providing its services. I'll finally spare my small talk and show you what I have created. Behold. However if you do decide to accept this entry, I wouldn't be surprised as everything I do is a masterpiece. But if you do not, I can accept it and reasonably assume that my fine professional expertise is too great for this style of art.

It is truly an honor Rory to be working by your side my friend. I love this community, I love everybody here and I love Naruto!! I can't wait to test this baby out!! I'm so excited!! Good work Rory and the development team :-D Luv you guys

Nice tactic to diffuse the situation. Be it a coincidence or not, it is good news. Happy Birthday Nin Online! Kudos to the Nin Online team for putting in so much effort to maintain this community.

First and thank you. I can't wait until Alpha test 400 comes out, just a few years away.. -edit- First member FUCK

Let's discuss this more in private, Sipher, Crosswise, Amazi. This topic is much bigger than a fan art competition Do we all agree?

So before I began, I will say that I did this for Amazi. She challenged me to try something that I didn't think I would be good at. I'm not the biggest fan of drawing art or painting, However for Amazi I decided to work hard at this and do the best I could do with the little bit of equipment that I had lol. To start, I used a pin. Now of course this is the worse thing you could possibly do with the draft of your art project as I had no way of erasing the mistakes I made on my drawing. I decided to go with something basic. So instead of drawing something extremely complex or too hard, I took multiple pictures of Kakashi and pieced them together to draw his face. It wasn't as easy as I thought it would have been. Take my word for it, Kakashi's ears are bordering on suicide using a pin. ha ha Here are the portraits I decided to use for Kakashi. Looking at those pictures was tricky and for some strange reason it was more difficult to find a picture of Kakashi's face online without the sharingan open. I had to carefully draw slow so as to not mess up the the most important feature of Kakashi's face, his head band. Even then, with that pin I probably did more damage than I did good. With further and do, here are the drawings of Kakashi's face that I drew. It goes from the beginning to the full finished colored art work. Using my camera on this was fun. I actually enjoyed this. Amazi was right. :-) I hope you guys like it :-D Oya I almost forgot, I'm not doing this for the art competition, I only did it for Amazi because I promised her. *New Add* Please feel free however, to add this to the competition if you would like to, so as to get the community together. Thank You :-D

You idiots, I reserved that post to post stuff about the competition, not for my entry. Anyone who dares reserve spots after this will get warnings >_>!