Ladies and gentlemen,

At this time, the merging black holes appear to be no closer to each other than they were thirteen years ago. Safe to say, we may disregard this threat.  I have decided to resurrect this community despite potentially challenges the will arise. To quote former U.S. President, John F. Kennedy;

 “Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.”

 Unfortunately, Kennedy also said: “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”

Understanding the balance of risk and reward, there are  several goals I wish to achieve with the creation of this message board.   First and foremost: "If you build it, he will come."  This is a line from the 1989 Kevin Costner movie Field of Dreams which I never saw. Having said that, most people remember the line as “They will come.” In our original efforts to round up those that remain of the South Park Gaming (SPG) community, we were able to attempt to reconnect with those whom we remember and could track down via old emails and screen-names. This message board will serve as a centralized hub where old members may find us.

Secondly, and perhaps more important that the first reason listed, this community comes to serve as a huge dose of nostalgia as well as historically archive the era of SPG. Nostalgia alone often comes as a great source of entertainment for those of us at any age. And I have said this
before: As nostalgia is often a fleeting feeling, I wish I had a viable way to capture it, distill it to its purest form, then crush it up and snort it. Seeing as I am still in the research and development phase of whether or not such a prospect will ever be possible, this community will supplement those desires in the interim.

Lastly, in the effort to rebuild a once great community that spawned in the chaos of the old internet, this forum serves to help lead and direct from both a project management standpoint as well as a social standpoint. While Discord may serve as a worthy tool as a chat room through both text and talk, it lacks the structure and longevity of a traditional forum. Different boards/threads will allow us the organization necessary in order to do what humans like to do best: Share stories, ideas, and work collectively on projects we are most passionate about.

Having listed the primary reasons for wishing to build this community, I will now explain the risks: SPG, while at its heart, has always been a game-development community. In this current time in history (20 years later) the entire game-development industry is flooded with developers and anyone and their mother is developing games for this device or another. Combine this zeitgeist with the fact that SPG has always been based on parody games of the television series South Park (One of the reasons our games became as renowned as they were back in the day) it has always left us with a very niche community. This leaving us with the challenge that we will always be a small community no matter how big of an audience our games receive.

Nothing worthwhile was ever easy. Having said that, I welcome you all to the South Park Gaming Community, members old and new.  To briefly introduce myself, I am RFI. (An abbreviation for Realistic Freak Infection. Hey, I was in high school and I thought it was cool and edgy. Plus, it was a play on another name at the time) I originally joined the community in 2002 although I had created a few (terrible) games in 2000. I served as Admin in my senior year of high school in
2006 and a few years proceeding under the command of Beamer. I will list more details on myself in the “Introduce Yourself” thread. For now, please enjoy your stay.