Site Change History
January 2010
- Made some minor updates to various pages.
August 2009
- Fixed some minor broken links due to the site change last month. The links for the free additions to Queen Victoria's Navy are now working again.
July 2009
- Deployed the brand new site, similar in functionality, but much cleaner and quicker to load. Our thanks to Ari Heino, who re-designed and re-coded each page for us.
June 2009
- Overall Site Fix
- Removed the ability to order QVN directly from BoneGames, as we no longer have any, and added info about being able to still get copies from Boards & Bits.
May 2009
- Removed the Amazon donation system as it’s no longer in service. Our thanks to everyone who contributed while it was available!
- Published to the front page notice that our stock of Queen Victoria’s Navy is almost gone, and that once it’s gone it’s gone.
April 2009
- Added a note to the front page about our new blog at gamesiplay.wordpress.com.
February 2009
- Went live with our latest game in playtest, Marathon.
- Added BoardGameGeek specific page links to each game page.
- Minor maintenance; fixed some busted links, etc.
November 2007
- Minor changes to reduce the chance of site scrapers getting our email addresses for spam.
April 2007
- Minor maintenance; fixed some busted links, etc.
- Removed The Game Report from the list of other links (it’s been dead a long time now), and replaced it with BoardGameGeek.
January 14, 2006
- Minor maintenance; fixed some busted links, etc.
April 22, 2004
- BoneGames is now accepting donations via the Amazon Honor System; adjustments to the front page to accommodate this have been made.
August 15, 2003
- BoneGames has a new physical address! Made changes as needed as a result of our move.
March 15, 2003
- Site wide changes to account for the release of The Bombardment of Alexandria 1882, a free expansion to Queen Victoria’s Navy.
- Misc. cleanup all over the site.
June 1, 2002
- Site wide changes to account for the release of Ship List Pack #1, a free expansion to Queen Victoria’s Navy.
March 1, 2002
- Added content about the Spanish version of Tiles in various places.
- General small detail cleanup.
October 15, 2001
- General small detail cleanup.
- Removed Listbot section from the front page.
Feb 25, 2001
- Site wide changes to account for the release of Admiral On Deck, a free expansion to Queen Victoria’s Navy.
- Miscellaneous site improvements/fixes.
November 10, 2000
- Added a link on the front page and the Queen Victoria’s Navy page to a review of Queen Victoria’s Navy on www.rpg.net. It’s a good review – go read it!
August 8, 2000
- Added a photo of the contents of Queen Victoria’s Navy to its page, replacing the masthead graphic. Now you can see what comes in the game and how it’s packaged.
Feb 29, 2000
- A scenario ship list PDF is the March update to the site, available via the Queen Victoria’s Navy page.
- Updated snail-mail address and telephone number on the Order BoneGames page, for orders sent by check or money order.
Jan 31, 2000
- The Final Release Notes for Queen Victoria’s Navy is the February update to the Designer’s Notes.
- Updated the Queen Victoria’s Navy page, including a link to the Final Release Notes.
Dec 31, 1999
- Complete site makeover for the release of Queen Victoria’s Navy, including the shopping cart functionality to enable web purchasing of Queen Victoria’s Navy.
November 7, 1997
- Added an errata doc for the Combat Operations public beta 1 to the Beta Games section. Updated the beta from comopsb1.pdf to comopsb1a.pdf to include the errata in the doc.
- Slowly changing all email references in the site to our new email address, bonegames-at-bonegames.com. The old one still works, but we would like to transition away from it.
November 4, 1997
- QVN public beta 2 made available in the Beta Games section. Yes, yet another take at this naval combat game… THIS time we got it right!
September 6, 1997
- Combat Operations public beta 1 made available in the Beta Games section.
August 4, 1997
- New Designer’s Notes added – comments on Origins ’97.
July 1, 1997
- Added the Freefall v. 2.0b Questions & Answers page.
- Changed the Beta page to point to the Freefall v. 2.0b Questions & Answers page. Cosmetic changes to the paragraph format.
- Reordered the Ramblings page so that the columns are in reverse order (newest to oldest). Added the monthly publication date for all of the Ramblings listed. Cosmetic changes to the paragraph format.
June 30, 1997
- Changed top page marquee to invite more people to check out Freefall.
- Added new Designer’s Notes: The 3D Boardgame and a plug for Origins ’97.
- Editor’s Note: In not even a month at our new web home, BoneGames has distributed almost 6000 games, over 350 of our newest beta game Freefall!
June 8, 1997
- Changed top page marquee to announce our newest beta release – Freefall.
- Posted Freefall to the beta section – check it out!
- Added Freefall: Introduction to the Beta to Designer’s Notes.
- Editor’s Note: our website move went well. Over the next few updates we may be adding new features to the website, as now possible. Let us know if you have any problems with the new site.
June 4, 1997
- Changed top page warning about our website move. Should be another few days of getting things straightened out before we are all back to normal.
- We are very close to releasing our newest beta Freefall, the next revolution of LNL… Check back soon for it!
May 22, 1997
- Added top page warning about our impending website move.
We are moving our website! The address will be the same, but over the next several days you may experience inconsistent behavior. We apologize for this, but think you will agree the change will have been worth it!
- Once moved we will be back to updating the site every month, and will have a brand new beta available as well! (Freefall, the next revolution of LNL…)
March 31, 1997
- Added new Designer’s Notes column, discussing several of our games in progress (See Designer’s Notes April ’97). Sort of a preview of upcoming titles…
- Added a new link to our list of other interesting pages, Cheapass Games, a gaming company who BoneGames would love to see succeed!
- Made some minor changes to clean up some HTML loose ends.
Feb 27, 1997
- Added new Designer’s Notes column on EOR, a randomization system we use of some of our games (See Designer’s Notes March ’97).
- Our hit tracking reports have changed, which has forced us to change how we will be tracking what games are getting downloaded in what quantity.
Jan 14, 1997
- Brand new layout.
- New Designer’s Notes column on the State of Gaming (See Designer’s Notes January ’97).
- Added new site to our list of other interesting game sites – Matt Sears page on Game Design.
Nov 14, 1996
- Updated link to the Web Grognards.
- New public version beta of Royal Wars made available.
- Note: Things have very busy for us lately, so things on the site slowed down a bit. The good news is we have some great new games in the works, and are targeting a January release date for the new betas.
Sept 11, 1996
- Received a note about a Linux PDF viewer, and updated main page with the url to reflect that.
- Interesting Trivia: Barnard’s Star has had over 50 downloads since we made it available on Aug 28.
Aug 28, 1996
- Added new section called Guest Games, in which we feature a non-BoneGames game. The first Guest Games is Barnard’s Star, by Kerry Anderson.
- Made some minor changes to clean up some other pages.
Aug 2, 1996
- Added relevant info to each page to reflect that the BoneGames site has now been rated according to the RSAC system. See http://www.rsac.org for more information.
July 26, 1996
- Bruce has finally written a new column, discussing QVN and his plans for a grand scale naval wargame (See Designer’s Notes July ’96).
July 1, 1996
- Queen Victoria’s Navy, a new naval combat game, has been added to the beta page, with the front page reflecting that.
- Scrolling marquee will now headline the latest significant change to the site; which is QVN’s beta this time around.
- Not a change, but neat info anyway… We now average almost 1000 game downloads a month! WOW!
June 18, 1996
- After many requests, Bruce has released an Addendum to the Sovereign Seas Lite game system. See SSL page for details.
June 5, 1996
- Royal Wars is now in public beta, and so was added to the main page and to the beta page.
- A new game went into private beta, Queen Victoria’s Navy, a naval combat game.
May 23, 1996
- Added separate page to notate changes to site (this page).
- Changed URL for beta page, is now at the bonegames.com address.
- Removed NEW VERSION from The Barons of Fyn.
- Added note to remind potential sponsors to drop us a line (hint).
- Added Peter Sarrett’s The Game Report Online to our page of other links.