Lance priebe biography
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Way back in the winter of 1999 I had an idea to create a multiplayer strategy game with penguins.
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But could Flash 4 do it? Was the internet ready? I decided to start small and create Experimental Penguins.
Launched July 2000, Experimental Penguins was my first attempt at developing a multiplayer game. It was pretty simple.
Each player could give their penguin a name, chat and explore a four room world.
Lance priebe biography
I was surprised by the success.
Sadly, Experimental Penguins was closed one year later due to server costs.
In 2001, I starting working on my multiplayer strategy game (Snowblasters) again. This was quickly interrupted when companies started asking me to develop character chats for their websites.
After building a couple custom chats, I decided to build the next version of Experimental Penguins called Penguin Chat.
In January 2003, the new and improved Penguin Chat went online. This version included lots of new features like emotes, chat balloons, depth sorting (you co