Hey Everyone! – So, it’s been over a year-and-a-half since we released Warhawk. We’ve released 3 expansion packs, several free updates, PlayStation Home Game Launching, and the Warhawk Command Center. We’ve got a rabid and dedicated fan base around the world and with the new limited-time-only $19.99 price; we’re hoping to grow our community even more!
And that’s the key word there is… “Community”
We’ve always been driven to support our community and at the same time, we’re not afraid to try out new experimental stuff. The latest result of this is our collaboration with one of our own players named Sugaboo — that’s his PSN handle, *not* his name IRL :-)
Sugaboo’s website MyHawk.org has been operational for quite some time now and he’s just rolled-out a massive update! Clan Matches & Tournaments, Daily Leader Boards, New graphs, Per-weapon stats, Stats on individual games, Game Calendar and more!
Here’s just one example of a player stats page with game calendar:
Based on feedback from our player community, there was always a set of very highly requested community features that Warhawk didn’t support “out-of-the-box”. These requests weren’t forgotten!!! We were just thinking of the best and most extensible way to roll them out. And since they’re community features, it was *critical* for us to develop a solution that would allow all of you guys, our players from around the world, to customize and enhance the Warhawk community for years to come.
We think of it as the democratization of our player community – and yes, it’s global so it’s not just for American players!
So…I’m not going to puke too much technical schwag at all of you but suffice to say, we now provide you guys with the full, and raw data stream from our stats database – not just awards and medals! Every game, every clan, every player, every kill. All of this data is delivered via XML so it’s very easy to Web 2.0-ify a community website. Yeah, Yeah, I know I just said “web 2.0” don’t hate me for using one of the most overused terms on the internet — It just happens to be true in this case so cut me some slack :-)
Here’s a just a wee-little bit of the XML that the Warhawk Server Cluster generates:
Here’s a pic of the game summary page from a recent game. Just click a player’s name to access his stats page. Then, you’ll see a calendar that shows the days he (or she) played Warhawk. Click on specific day and you will see a link to the results of every game he played:
Here’s a pic of the Clan challenge screen. This is where teams can schedule games and, via the new XML feed, MyHawk.org reports the official results of the match!
MyHawk.org now provides our Warhawk Community with some great new features; features that are built upon the global Warhawk XML feed that was developed by the fantastic engineers in our Online Technology Group in San Diego. They do soooo much work behind the scenes (and not just on Warhawk), that I thought it would be a good idea for you to see who they really are. And, just in case any of them show up on America’s Most-Wanted… here’s a pic of this motley crew during one of the play sessions!
Lastly, I want to thank Sugaboo for all of his hard work! He has been beta testing our global XML
feed for quite sometime and I’m so happy to see a member of our player community work to
extend the very community he’s a part of!!
Thanks Sugaboo!
The team and I really think that what you’ve done with our new XML streams is a great addition to
our Warhawk community and we hope that XML game streams of this magnitude are adopted by
other multiplayer games in the future!
So that’s it for now everyone – If there are any other community sites that would like to access
the Warhawk global XML feed, please hit the Warhawk forums and post your info. We have a
team in San Diego that can give you the proper server access.
Rock on!
–dylan
Going to check it out right-frickin’-now!
Looks pretty sweet
Looks awesome, thanks for sharing this information. I will be checking this out.
WOW…epic,nuff said. (That’s kind of over used too). XD
Thanks guys — we’re really excited to allow our players to run their own tournaments with the new game challenge system.
you guys are awesome.
i need to play some more warhawk
VERY not bad!! Impressive, to say the least.
Yo Dylan . . . what’s up with Warhawk 2? Or more booster packs?
I knew the moment I bought Warhawk it would be my most played and favortie game.
Nice work Incognito!
WE ALLL APPRECIATE THIS STUFF..BUT IM SURE I WONT BE THE ONLY ONE WHO WOULD APPRECIATE SOME RADAR FIXES!..PLEASE OOH PLEASE FIX THE RADAR..I AM TIRED OF WARHAWKS CHASING ME DOWN BECUZTHEY CAN SPOT ON ON THIER RADAR.IT SHOULD ONLY SHOW ME IF IM ON A VIECHLE.NOT IF IM HOLDING A WEPON!..PLEASE FIX THAT.AND ALSO..PLEASE ADD A MINI GAME IN THE WARHAWK HOME SPACE..CUMMON U GUYS CAN DO BETTER THAN A “SAND TABLE”. BUT IF ANYTHING I REALLY WANT TO THANK YOU ALL AT Incognito FOR ALL THE HARD WORK YOU GUYS PUT INTO THE GAME..AS U ALREADY KNOE I LOVE IT! AND JUST WANT IT TO KEEP GETTING BETTER!
“We’ve always been driven to support our community”
Then you really need to find someone to answer all the Twitter questions you quietly ignore.
Cool I like that you embraced a fan of the game and are promoting his well crafted site, this is why I love Sony (well that and all the great games)
Hello Nemo,
As you can imagine my Twitter feed gets pretty busy from time to time :)
I’m all for answering your questions – post them here and I’ll answer the ones I can!
Don’t know what sort of development the game is still getting but wondering if you could farm out the code to a small dev or something to make more DLC? I think the game could be one of those that continues for a long time due to the addition of map packs and mods on a regular basis. Just an idea.
Very nice addition for Warhawk.
Thanks!
Sweet! More expansions plz, oh and if you guys have time maybe either add the story mode back in so we can finally see why the two sides are having such a fit @ each other OR do a Warhawk 2 with like Resistance 2 level visuals–either would be AWESOME!……or Warhawk on PSP?
Yes! This should be much better than the Gaming tournament site (GGL) that netted me my sweet knife. I think we will be interested in the XML interface at PlayStationLifeStyl.net – this might fit in well with the new community options.
I love Warhawk! I’ve logged in at least 711 hours of play time (which is amazing and sad all at once), but for some reason I can’t level up anymore. For whatever reason I can’t get the medal for flying a Warhawk for 50 hours. Oh well, still love the game.
Does this also mean that maybe one day http://www.sackbook.com will go live again for LBP?
anyways. good to see a community site being made! Warhawk is a great game!
Where are your cryptic clues in this message (or do I need to look deeper?). Is this actually Dylan Jobe? Is any of this real?
LOL — it is really me :)