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Hi,
It's been a long time since our last message, but we are still alive. Even we did not talk much, we made some progress (see our Youtube channel). Our mod is still not available for public access ( ), but we have some good news. We plan to finally open progressively some features of our server by the end of the month. For the moment, this will mostly be about registration, linking your Hammerfest account, creating backups (so you don't loose your progression if Hammerfest shuts down) and updating the design of the website. There will be a longer message for the release announcement (by the end of this month) but I wanted to keep you updated since most of the discussion happens on this thread of the french forum.

Eternalfest

This thread was created in 2013, if anyone was wondering

Thanks for the update, surprised to hear about this again and interested to hear how it goes!

Since the eternalfest account hasn't posted an update here, the site for backing up data in case of this site going down has been made fully public (eternalfest.net).

You can use it to back up all fridge and score data from all 3 servers. The profiles on the site now show how many of X item someone has, instead of just showing whether or not an item has been unblocked.

Hi,
Sorry the delay, we were really busy lately so I did not have much time to post an update. We definitely would like to have first class support for the english community but there is too much to cover for us for the moment.
As posted above, one of the reasons why we were busy was the release of our website to backup Hammerfest: https://eternalfest.net/. Please read the description of the homepage, basically you can save your progress and share your profile.

A quick note about the other projects. We successfully introduced mods to Hammerfest, this allowed us to create custom mechanics, enemies, etc. We have an updated level editor and the loader was fully rewritten in a new language (Haxe) which should allow us to no longer depend on Flash. The game was also ported to this language but it's still experimental for the moment. With the new website, we hope to land features and progressively grant you access even if actually playing the new levels will still be restricted until we reach an agreement with Motion Twin.

- Eternalfest -

The thing is that we would have to trust you with our account details (not that I don't think you are cool and legit). I'm just always pretty careful with passwords in general and don't have a good feeling when I give it to a private third party (especially when someone could easily delete every forum thread with my account incase details are leaked somehow).

I'm happy that you raised the issue.

Effectively, for the moment you have to use you Hammerfest credentials. Even if we do not store them, there's no way to prove it that I am aware of (apart from "trust us, we don't store them"). The reason why we need it is that to save your items we need access to your inventory, and we can't trust a screen short or other indirect methods so we need to actually perform the connection ourselves.

Now, this is required for the backup of your items but we have two planned way to mitigate this issue.
First of all, if all you care about is authentication / linking your account, it is possible without entering your password: we can provide you a secret key to post on the forum. If you post it with your account it means that you own the account and we can authenticate you without using a password. You will be authenticated but your progress won't be saved.
The second part is to implement "best guess" backups using public profiles. This won't be as accurate (we will use the minimum requirements based on the state of quests and unlocked items). This still won't allow us to backup things such as your purchased credits.

These features should be implemented during the summer. If you still don't trust us (I'd have the same reaction), I recommend you to change your password, create a backup and then change your password again.

- Eternalfest -

I have no problem with logging in as my details here have no link with any other profiles, and I'm sure you can't do anything too nefarious with my hfest account.

I do like the item numbers in the profile, but is looking at your own profile the only thing you can do for now?

You can also post your [lien=https://eternalfest.net/users/aadcea79-3d2e-4a2b-9e50-c93406c2b982]link[/lien] and show everyone how awesome your collection is.

Well, mine's at https://eternalfest.net/users/55938c53-3c20-4a1f-acf7-d7ad7c4bbdb8 if anyone cares

Hyperlinks seem to have been disabled?

Might as well post mine here. French profile included.
https://eternalfest.net/users/0c02519a-234f-48ee-8496-ecb74877b9eb