Is Code Monkey Publishing kaput?

[iwarrior-poet]

Code Monkey Publishing is the former maker of official D+D 3.0/3.5 datasets for PCGen/E-Tools and the forthcoming RPG Toolkit (currently a vaporware product). Their website (which has not been too stable over the last two years) has been out of commission for the last week. Here it is:
http://www.codemonkeypublishing.com/
It has a message saying it is upgrading software----but I really don't think it takes a week to do that. Does anyone have any info or thoughts?

 

[Jan van Leyden]

No, I don't have any info. But in Monkey-land any changes, even repairs to the site are a matter of months.

I've given up hope a long time ago, and I'm very happy that I didn't pre-order (and pay!) their announced product two years ago.

 

[iwarrior-poet]

Getting close to two weeks now... Anyone got some actual info?

 

[iwarrior-poet]

Close to three weeks now

Not looking good...

 

[Nylanfs]

Me either, I haven't been able to get ahold of either Bryan or Rob via email.

My next step would be to try calling Rob since I can't seem to find Bryan's number.

 

[dragonier]

I know a few folks over at the Piazza have been watching the Codemonkey site and also the Blackmoor MMRPG site for any hint about the forthcoming Blackmoor releases. The last news heard seemed to indicate the latest Blackmoor book had been sent to be printed. That was a while ago though and there's been no news since. It's very disappointing.

 

[sfield]

The Monkeys

Having benefiting from them actually fixing E-tools I had high hopes for them. But I think they are going the way of Duke Nukem Forever pure vaporware.

I purchased almost 400.00 worth of their etools / pcgen stuff and it did work.

There website was the absolute worst layout I have ever seen and the use of terminology for there page links might have been funny to them but as a consumer It drove me nuts trying to find something.

They never backed up there sight and the last major upgrade they did if they had read the documentation had known issues with the application modules they were running on the site.

If they had tested anything out priot to doing a live upgrade they would have know it wasn't going to work.

These guys did some great stuff in the past but they are the worst business owners I have ever come accross.

 

[iwarrior-poet]

Still down...
Anyone have any news?

 

[Nylanfs]

I sent Bryan an email and he just got back with me.

It's the curse of trying to straighten one issue out, forcing an update of some software, which destroys other things, only to find out that your backup has been corrupted. Sigh. I'm no help with those things and Rob has been going in circles with the support teams for the various pieces of software we use on the site.

-Bryan

 

[iwarrior-poet]

Thanks Nylanfs. Good to hear they are not TKOed, but it doesn't speak too well of their ability to manage their site. It has been pretty inconsistent for the last two years.