For a few moments of peace

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
W.H. Davis

These days, heartburn, indigestion, roadrage and bleary eyes seem to be the norm. We at the Hall try to soothe away the day's frustrations and let you play games in a peaceful and calm atmosphere.

Taking it a step further, we would like to present to you the Zen Meditation Chimes for a soothing and calming experience. Your World, your games, your music your way!


I would like to welcome on board a new author: Bacter. If his guest contribution is anything to go by, then we have great things to look forward to. Bobo and Valkyrie have made an excellent choice.
Welcome on Board Bacter.


Most of you would have noticed that I have asked Bobo82 to take over the Hall. I am sure that you would all extend your warmest and fullest support to her. Valkyrie has informed me that she has family priorities which limits the time she spends in the Hall and in Kongregate. She will still be with us as a resident moderator.


Our other resident room mod is doing admirable social work and will be traveling to Africa shortly. We wish her all the best. Her warm and gentle heart is appreciated. We will miss her.


We would like to know your views on the hall, it's blog, your suggestions for improvement etc. Do talk out aloud here.
The Hall of Odin

New Authors

Ok, time for some more user input on this thing. It took a while but things are set up and running nicely now so we thought it was about time we put out a call for some more authors. Now you know the old saying too many cooks spoil the broth, well too many authors spoil the blog.... So we will only be taking one or two new authors right now but we might take some more a little later on (so please don’t be mad/upset if we don’t take you as an author this time). To make this as fair as can be and make this blog as good as can be we would like anyone who wants to be an author to send in a sample post. Please read the following and then send your posts to thehallofodin@gmail.com.

Who can write one?
Anyone who is a regular, part time user or even occasional drop in to the Hall.

What to write about
You can write about whatever you want as long as it has something to do with the Hall of Odin. This is a blog for the HoO not for Kongregate in general so make sure it’s relevant to the HoO. You can write about something funny you saw in chat, start a competition, make up a fairy story about some of the regulars in the hall, whatever you want really! You can add in pictures if you want, either of screen shots from chat or any other pictures that are relevant.

Introduce yourself at the start of the post as if you are accepted the post you submit now will be your first post on the blog. Say your name and a little about who you are for those who may not know you and put your username at the bottom of the post also.

What not to write about
The same rules apply here as in the Hall, no profanity, no explicit writing or pictures, no abuse towards other users etc. Please also try and keep things general, the odd in-joke here and there is fine but this is a blog for ALL the users who frequent the Hall so make sure the post is interesting to everyone.

What does being an author on this blog entail?
There are no serious commitments, if you become an author we would like you to try and submit a new post at least once a month but beyond that it’s up to you how often you post. If you want to change your mind for any reason – you have started hanging out in a different room, you don’t have time for this or you just don’t want to do it anymore then no worries, let us know and we will take you off the author list. Be aware though, if you become an author and post something which contains profanity, abuse, inappropriate images or language or something generally not nice then we will remove the post and remove you from the author list. If you are ever unsure you can always run a post by one of us first.



We will leave this open for about a fortnight to give everyone time to see this post and to have time to write one of their own. We want good writers who will spend enough time in the Hall to have things to write about on a regular basis. Like I said, we are only looking for one or maybe two more authors right now so please don’t be offended if we don’t take you on as one.

Much love and hugs
The HoO bloggers :)

Links

Just a quick post to say that we have added some useful links to the blog. If you look just to the left there's the link to the general help page for Kong. This has a lot of really useful things on it from how to earn points, to how to implement API on an uploaded game. There is also a link for the Kong behaviour guidelines, remember though that these are general guidelines and that each room has a slightly different tolerance for things. The last link is to a form to report abusive users. If you cant find a mod then you can report someone through this.

Any more links you think would be helpful leave a comment or give me a shout and we'll see about getting them up.

bobo x

New helmets!

Look up at the top of the page......now look down at the very bottom of the page.....now look to the left of the page.....brand new custom designed helmets!

An enormous thank you to COLTchr for these amazing designs.

I had to fiddle about with them a bit to get them where I wanted on the page and at the right size so here are the original drawings in all their glory for you to gaze at in awe and wonder. (and before anyone says anything.... yes, I know it would have been better to have the colour one as the main pic and the pencil one as the little ones but when I shrank the little ones they were too faint and I kinda liked the pencil one so went with it for the main picture).

bobo x

Questions

We've been getting a lot of questions about the blog so i thought i would try and answer some of them by giving you a little more info on what our plan is.


Authors: For the time being it’s just thehallofodin, Vanilla and Bobo. The blog has only been up a few days and we’re keeping authors to a minimum until things are a little more sorted and running smoothly. We would really really like some regulars to be authors and as soon as we are ready to take some on we will put the word out. In the meantime leave one of us a whisper if you want to be considered as a future author. Like we have already said this is YOUR blog and we want YOUR input, the only reason we are keeping it to a small number of authors at first is just to keep things easy whilst we get it all set up.


Contributions: You don’t need to be an author to contribute something to the blog. If you have a snippet of conversation, funny story, screen shot, anything really then just leave one of us a shout/whisper and we will try and put it into one of our posts with a comment saying it was your contribution.


Suggestions: Some of you have been giving us some really great suggestions (thank you Monkey_Saw for the poll idea!). Keep it up guys, leave us messages on our profiles and on this blog as then we have a lasting record of who said what. (I personally have the memory of a confused goldfish so please don’t be offended if I forget something you have told me in chat!)....er small apology some idiot (*whistles nonchalantly* me? No definitely not me!) may have pressed the wrong button on the allowing comments page...all fixed, so go ahead and leave us some comments on the posts on this blog!

And finally, okay okay I give in, now stop the nagging! (you know who you are)

Happy now? :p.

bobo x