BlackNova Traders

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BlackNova Traders

Home Website: www.blacknova.net

BlackNova Traders is a massively multiplayer web-based game of space commerce and conflict. It was originally written by Ron Harwood in 2000 and set up at PHPWebhosting as an ad supported game. Two things happend as the game grew in popularity:

1. Ron was kindly asked by said hosting service to find other hosting. (at the time the game was serving over 4 million pages a month) 2. The fans of the game were begging Ron to release the game as an open source project. (as feature requests and bug fixes were very slow in coming with only Ron working on the code)

So new hosting was found and the game was released as an open source project (originally under the artistic license and later under the GPL).

There have since been many people involved in the development of BNT and several forks of the code base as well.