Archive for April, 2010

Summer. Airplanes. Amsterdam!

Sunday, April 11th, 2010

What’s better than a combination of warm, sunny weather, the smell of burned kerosene, some heavy metal passing over your head, plenty of good food, some cool beers and long discussions with fellow aviation geeks about your favorite airline simulation? Can’t think of anything? We neither!

Summer is coming and we will have our traditional summer meet-up! For the first time ever the event will take place in the wonderful city of Amsterdam, Netherlands, with the official part of the meeting commencing on August the 7th, 2010. Usually there is some inofficial get-together on the following day for all those who don’t leave the day before already.

As mentioned above and contrary to our city events (like London 2010, don’t forget to sign up!), the event is supposed to have a somewhat strong aviation focus. As usual though, the program is more or less open and we look forward to your suggestions on how we can make this a fun event for everybody! We invite anyone to join the discussions on our forums.

For those of you who are on Facebook, we have also created an event page HERE!

See you in Amsterdam!

AirlineSim moves into new Frankfurt office

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

April Fools! These news are of course imaginary.

The International version of AirlineSim has been a great success so far, having outpaced our growth predictions significantly. However, as you all know, growth can’t take place in a vacuum – some level of infrastructure is needed to keep things organised. Therefore, simulogics, the parent company through which we operate AirlineSim, will be opening its first physical office sooner than planned. It’s great news for us, and of course it would be wrong not to give the project an aeronautical theme. Therefore, we will be renting a complete floor in the old air traffic control tower at Frankfurt airport, previously used for aircraft gate assignments and soon to be on the head office and nerve center for simulogics – and, of course, a place where our faithful players can drop in to say hello!

Besides the offices for our seemingly ever-growing team, we will be installing a lounge in the front of the building, with a view over the airport apron. For a charge of a few credits players will be able to shorten their wait time until their flight departs, and even use the lounge to discuss new features with the developers who will show up occasionally. We aren’t aware of any other gaming companies that have achieved such a seamless fusion between an online game world and the real world, and we’re looking forward to the exciting new opportunities it will bring both to our team and to our players.

As the contract with FRAport has not been finalized, details on the subscription and entry costs to the new player lounge are not available just yet. However, current AirlineSim players are advised to get in touch with us via fra@simulogics.net, as we’re holding a prize draw for tickets to the opening celebration! The exact date of the meeting is yet to be announced, but will definitely be a weekend in order to maximise the number of players we can accomodate.

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