In that drive I stored most of my projects, research, resources, documents, and all other kinds of important data, and unfortunately almost nothing was backed up to a different location since I wasn't expecting my newest drive to die so soon.
Now, what does that mean for Venice Unleashed?
Thankfully, all the core code for the Venice Unleashed client and the backend services was versioned on a highly secured remote environment, meaning that the losses aren't that great.
There were however a few things that did get lost along the way, so I'll try to provide a small list of what those are:
- Designs and implementation of the custom Venice Unleashed interface (WebUI files)
- Designs of the new Venice Unleashed website and forums
- Experimental WebUI code to allow rendering of hardware accelerated content
- Various custom scripts and tools for the custom backend services library
- Research related to BF3 resources and entities
- Several modified library dependencies
Now, even though the damage isn't that great, it still takes us back a few steps.
Finally, for the past weeks, I've been trying to recover my files from the dead HDD, without much success, and unfortunately Data Recovery companies charge ridiculous amounts of money for recovery of such drives.
There's really not much I (or you) can do at this point, but I thought it'd be nice to let you know.