Welcome to Spark Realm

Welcome to Spark Realm! This is a community-created Spark website designed with one thing in mind: Giving you everything you need to better enjoy the game of Spark. Feel free to peruse Spark Realm to your heart's content, or at least until you find whatever it is that you're looking for. If you can't find what you're looking for, well, that's what the Suggest page is for!

June 25, 2009

Hey all, we've got some cool new things going on Spark Realm! First off, we've got a cool new Star Wars Sound Patch courtesy of Godzilla, with authentic Star Wars lines and sound effects! He recorded all of the effects from scratch (must have spent a bunch of time with Sound Recorder open, with the movies playing in the background, I can only imagine =P haha). Anyways, much thanks to Godzilla, and I hope everyone tries it out, it's a spectacular patch, and it makes me laugh! Check out the sound-bytes on the Downloads page!

Also, Patabugen has redesigned Spark Stuff a bit, and it looks better than it did before! Birdman is reportedly developing content for Spark Clans, and that website is supposed to be taking off soon! More content is being developed for S.W.A.T. as we speak, and more pictures are being added to Spark Faces every day! Keep sending in your faces, maps, and patches, so that we can get these websites all full of content for other Spark players! Cheers!

-posted by Reaper Charlie

March 11, 2009

I've rolled Spark Realm over to PHP now, many thanks to the help of a handy-dandy PHP book (Beginning PHP and MySQL, which I got for Christmas! Thanks, Dad!), and loose guidance from a few members of the Spark Community. The next step now is to begin rolling over all of the other Spark Network websites to PHP and automating them, and getting everything filled out with awesome content from all of you guys! So be sure to submit your maps to ma...@spark-realm.net and your patches to patc...@spark-realm.net!

-posted by Reaper Charlie

January 5, 2009

The Spark Realm website is nearing completion, and as soon as it's done I will begin work on building out the content for the S.W.A.T. website. Once I get a pretty good handle on PHP, I will roll everything over to PHP, so that everything can be taken care of with server-side scripts and constant maintenance will no longer be necessary.

The S.W.A.T. website will be set up with three basic categories. The first, called Create Content, will be a haven for tutorials on how to create Spark maps, Spark patches, Spark websites, and in general, any and every kind of content that can be imagined for Spark. The Spark Tactics section will be like a guidebook to bettering your Spark-playing skills, from tightening your spreads to correcting your dodging patterns, and nipping bad habits in the bud before they harden into reflexes.

The third section will be a volunteer Tutoring Program, in which more advanced players can hook up with newer ones and teach them new things. Though a better way to do it might seem to be just asking in the lobby, this section of the S.W.A.T. will be dedicated for Spark Players looking to help others or get help. The Tutoring Program will have tools which will make coming here much more useful than just asking random people in the lobby for help.

When the S.W.A.T. website opens, you can expect the overall skill level of the community as a whole to increase noticeably, and new maps and patches to arrive with increasingly more regularity, and with noticeably better workmanship. If you're as excited about this as I am, then make sure to give your friends the link to www.spark-realm.net! :)

-posted by Reaper Charlie

December 28, 2008

I have concurrently created five seperate designs, color coded as yellow (for Spark Stuff), green (for Spark Realm), turquoise (for Spark Clans), blue (for S.W.A.T), and white (for Spark Faces). The yellow one was originally for Spark Headquarters, but neither Dave nor remote made any attempt to secure the design for Spark Headquarters, though I designed it specifically for Spark Headquarters, and approached both of them numerous times offering to roll the site over to the new design for them. So I went to Patabugen with the design, and he opted to use it instead of the placeholder graphics which had sat like a blemish on the front page of Spark Stuff for so long. Tough luck, Spark Headquarters. You might have gotten some free design work :) Next time, be less apathetic!

-posted by Reaper Charlie