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Dear Ninjas, In the past few months, we've been running relatively low on funds for our server. We're not going to die because of it. But It's been so bad that I had to pump in my own money to pay for our forum license. Army pays me peanuts, so the hit on my monthly spending power is pretty drastic. I don't really mind, I know that developing a game doesn't entitle you to have it float on it's own! But it would be a great if the game could support it's own development cost. As always, funds are spent on Software licenses, Virtual Services, Server hosting, Web hosting & Commissions. We've been working hard day and night to bring Nin Online great new contents, features and weeding out bugs for alpha 3. As such, we've decided that if we're able to get enough donations that the game will be able to sustain itself in the long term... we will push forward the Alpha by 16 days! Making the first closed alpha happen on the 15th July. This means that open alpha will also be pushed forward. In addition to this, we will prepare ourselves to run the 1st Chunnin Exams shortly after. Alpha 3 Donations: $805/500 Goals: $250 - 1st Chunnin Exams held during Alpha 3 Chunnin Exams to be held in Open Alpha 3! $500 - Closed Alpha & Open Alpha brought forward by 16 days! Closed Alpha 3 moved up to July 15th! We may extend our goal to $1,000. How to donate? All Ninja Credit bought between now and 10th July will be considered a donation to Alpha 3 funds! You will still be given your Ninja Credit, which will soon be used to buy cosmetic items such as hairstyles, faces and costumes. Click here to proceed straight to the cash shop to donate. Step-by-step guide Donors Nin Online is only be possible with your support, we would like thank everyone who donates to the game. Regards, Rory

I am a bit late to the donation train since I was waiting for my funds to arrive, but I have finally purchased my gold. Hope it helps.

Fer's 1st Development Log Katon Karyuudan no Jutsu (Fire Style, Fire Dragon Awakening) Dear shinobi, I bring you my very first development log, announcing this very little update, hoping you all like it. My latest contributions in the game are the Akatsuki Cloak fully animated and the Fire Dragon Jutsu, along with some customizations, but I didn't feel like showing it in this development log. Katon Karyuudan technique I'd like to thank and credit Elk, for making the North state sprite for this skill, and Rory for spending 3 whole days animating the Jutsu as well as the Akatsuki cloak. That's all from me for today, thank you for reading.

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 number one donator is Izuna and he will forever be number 1 until the Goa rip donators come, then he will be beaten. Congratulations on reaching the goal.

Our goal has been hit, we may launch further stretch goals, but at the moment we're going to focus on the game. Any new donations will be added to the tracker until the official launch on July 15th! Thank you everyone for your support!

F it. I'm feeling pretty good about this and I'm interested to see how this plays out. I'll go ahead and put up the last bit.

Earn a Silver Membership - Award Icons! Hello community! I have received permission from Rory to award one person with a Silver Membership for helping to push through the forum awards feature () by providing the community with your icons! The requirements are simple: Complete single-state icons which fit into a 32x32 tileSubmit entries either to my PM inbox or into this threadProduce icons for all awards if you are chosenAn example of the awards listing - and most importantly of the required size - can be found here. (http://www.ninonline.org/forum/index.php?app=awards) In addition to receiving your Silver Membership: You will have the authority to make final decisions, with me, about what additional awards will be made available to the publicYou will be required to complete the icons for new rewardsYou will receive a custom award and user title for having submitted artwork Below is the current list of icons required to pump out the first official forum awards. Remember that these are single-state icons which should fit into a 32x32 tile; you may submit any one of these icons for evaluation either in this thread or my inbox. You may also submit more than one, or more than one version of an icon. Pakkun http://www.mangapanda.com/93-239-4/naruto/chapter-234.html Red Sands insignia http://www.mangapanda.com/93-256-4/naruto/chapter-251.html Deidara mouth http://www.mangapanda.com/93-252-15/naruto/chapter-247.html Naruto's frog purse http://www.mangapanda.com/93-155-4/naruto/chapter-150.html Lastly, the easy part: I would like your opinions on a few things. 1) Should the requirements for unlocking these rewards be made public, or kept secret for fun? 2) Do you have any fun ideas for awards? Note that I have not listed details here, so your idea may already be planned. 3) Are you already a silver or gold member? Leave your input if you have a better idea for your personal compensation. I am eager to hear your feedback! ~Crosswise