Time for new leadership in Cantr!
Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 2:37 am
Dear fellow Cantr player,
Eighteen years ago I started to work on Cantr to get an online replacement for my long-standing lego game with a friend. We had developed a complicated lego world, with elaborate economics, politics, news media, banking systems, etcetera, but we needed more players and we had a strictly limited supply of building materials. The solution was to go online, create a virtual world with unlimited resources and potentially unlimited numbers of players. My lack of graphic and artistic skills then required the development of a text-based game, and Cantr was born. Since then, Cantr has evolved into a very different animal from what I imagined - but it has also been much more successful than I ever expected.
Not long after getting Cantr online, and attracting the first players, it became clear I needed help operating the game. Over the years, many volunteers came to help out with programming, game design, marketing, translation, policing game rules, communication strategies, and eventually even with organising the volunteer staff itself. These volunteer contributions allowed Cantr to continually evolve and to stay strictly free to play, which was always an important priority.
Cantr would not have been a success without all their work - and that of their many predecessors over the years. And I want to take this opportunity to express my deep gratitude for all this dedication!
As some of you may be aware, I have been largely absent from Cantr administration for many years now, and while in the past year I have tried to get more engaged again, I do not have the time or energy to really make the impact I want to make when I am involved. For this reason, I believe it is time to hand the game administration chair position and disengage from the game.
While many have made a great contribution to the game, one person among current staff stands out to me in terms of his long-term contribution to the game, his calm and balanced approach to any problems around Cantr staff or among players, his thorough interest in developments in all aspects of the game, and the fact that his vision of the game and its administration is really similar to my own. I have therefore decided to hand over full ownership of the game to Joshua Mathias (Joshuamonkey). In the terminology of the current Cantr Constitution, he will be the "representative" of the "Game Founder".
I am ending my engagement with Cantr effective immediately - except for a behind the scenes handover of technical aspects of game ownership.
I am confident that Cantr will have a bright future under Joshua's leadership and with its great volunteer staff and I wish the game all the best!
Jos
Eighteen years ago I started to work on Cantr to get an online replacement for my long-standing lego game with a friend. We had developed a complicated lego world, with elaborate economics, politics, news media, banking systems, etcetera, but we needed more players and we had a strictly limited supply of building materials. The solution was to go online, create a virtual world with unlimited resources and potentially unlimited numbers of players. My lack of graphic and artistic skills then required the development of a text-based game, and Cantr was born. Since then, Cantr has evolved into a very different animal from what I imagined - but it has also been much more successful than I ever expected.
Not long after getting Cantr online, and attracting the first players, it became clear I needed help operating the game. Over the years, many volunteers came to help out with programming, game design, marketing, translation, policing game rules, communication strategies, and eventually even with organising the volunteer staff itself. These volunteer contributions allowed Cantr to continually evolve and to stay strictly free to play, which was always an important priority.
Cantr would not have been a success without all their work - and that of their many predecessors over the years. And I want to take this opportunity to express my deep gratitude for all this dedication!
As some of you may be aware, I have been largely absent from Cantr administration for many years now, and while in the past year I have tried to get more engaged again, I do not have the time or energy to really make the impact I want to make when I am involved. For this reason, I believe it is time to hand the game administration chair position and disengage from the game.
While many have made a great contribution to the game, one person among current staff stands out to me in terms of his long-term contribution to the game, his calm and balanced approach to any problems around Cantr staff or among players, his thorough interest in developments in all aspects of the game, and the fact that his vision of the game and its administration is really similar to my own. I have therefore decided to hand over full ownership of the game to Joshua Mathias (Joshuamonkey). In the terminology of the current Cantr Constitution, he will be the "representative" of the "Game Founder".
I am ending my engagement with Cantr effective immediately - except for a behind the scenes handover of technical aspects of game ownership.
I am confident that Cantr will have a bright future under Joshua's leadership and with its great volunteer staff and I wish the game all the best!
Jos