OP here
Not very surprised to see it getting abandoned.
I have checked the site a few times in April, and it worked well. Unfortunately I have never been able to play a PvP game as I was the only one there at the time.
ooops, I missed all the replies! site died and I didn't notice, restarted it.
the project is not abandoned, but its not popular, there have been about 500 total visitors in a few months, which is awful. I hoped that just publishing the url will be enough to get enough people to actually play pvp.
I'm chugging tons of coffee and working on this every day still, I'm doing one last push hoping to change the popularity.
a lot of code changed and this is the old version that's public now. will verify that payments and everything works ok still.
working on two big things,
tournaments - I will create faucet like free to join tournaments with bitcoin rewards, hoping this will introduce more people to the site. rewards will be few orders of magnitude larger then typical faucets (thinking 0.1 or 0.01 btc per tourny) this will go out of my pocket initially but afterwards I'm planning to create automatic tournaments from the percentage of last hour/day earnings.
ui redesign - the geeky design of the site confused people that are not accustomed to multiplayer game lobbies, so I got a designer and I'm super happy with how the redesign is going, it's looking great.
the site also has a referal system, it gives 10% of the earnings from a visitor to the person that refered this visitor.
we'll see. I will keep the site running even if these things don't change the popularity, as that's cheap, but will work on something else if these changes don't help either.
if it does become popular, I'd like to polish up the bomberman (player movement is laggy, and it should be done on the clientside) work on maybe infinite field infinite player bomberman, and start working on other games. this is supposed to be a platfrom and an engine, not just bomberman.
btw I'm super open for advice.
maybe a link from a more popular website would help. will think about these things after I publish the new version
maybe I should somehow gear it towards ppl inviting friends for a start. I had a great time playing with friends a few times.