The Restoration Era began in late 2020 and continues to this day. It was preceded by the VaultWiki Era.
In summer 2020, Ted Phillips decided it was time to shift the purpose of VaultWiki development from attempting to attract and maintain customers to creating what was needed for the Cracked Egg Studios web site's functionality, as it was first intended. At the time, he had been planning to start the studio on a path back to game development, with the start of the Unreal Era, but it became apparent that obtaining developer kits and having successful game launches would first require a functioning, active web site. The studio's web site had not received attention in close to 10 years, and all videos added during the Web Site Era (2005-2009) were soon to be defunct due to the retirement of Adobe Flash at the end of 2020. Thus, the Restoration Era began.
The aim of studio activity during this era is multi-pronged:
In summer 2020, Ted Phillips decided it was time to shift the purpose of VaultWiki development from attempting to attract and maintain customers to creating what was needed for the Cracked Egg Studios web site's functionality, as it was first intended. At the time, he had been planning to start the studio on a path back to game development, with the start of the Unreal Era, but it became apparent that obtaining developer kits and having successful game launches would first require a functioning, active web site. The studio's web site had not received attention in close to 10 years, and all videos added during the Web Site Era (2005-2009) were soon to be defunct due to the retirement of Adobe Flash at the end of 2020. Thus, the Restoration Era began.
The aim of studio activity during this era is multi-pronged:
- to restore the web site to a functioning, modern entity, with working videos
- to update the web site with more in-depth information about studio history and little-known projects, before that history is lost due to data loss and/or fading memory
- to account, restore, protect, and/or backup old media that has been deteriorating over the decades
- to release old content that was never released publicly, or that required rerelease
- eventually and finally, to restore Cracked Egg Studios to a state of actively creating new projects
Notable Events
In January 2021, Ted took the web site offline and began a massive migration that was not completed until over a full year later. Throughout 2022, most videos that were first added to the site during the Web Site Era have been restored, and several projects that were never released before, such as Never on the Ghost, The Adventures of Bongo and Nakita, and Th, have been added.
In September 2021, Ted began a physical accounting of media and intellectual property that was still extant and property that was believed to be lost. Over a year later, Ted is still actively reviewing the archives, removing content from the list of Lost Projects, and finding information on others that have been otherwise forgotten.
In September 2021, Ted began a physical accounting of media and intellectual property that was still extant and property that was believed to be lost. Over a year later, Ted is still actively reviewing the archives, removing content from the list of Lost Projects, and finding information on others that have been otherwise forgotten.