Welcome to the first (and hopefully not last!) of regular community blog posts, these will serve as a means of looking at all areas of the community, the people in the community and the works that the community is doing with regards addons and mod making, mission making and things like that. In these community blog posts we'll also look at other community sites out there, as well as chatting to a number of people who have directly or indirectly affected the lives of people within the community.

This first community blog post is ideally meant to start a "this is what we want to do, thoughts?" mentality happening, it's your community so we need your feedback to see what you want from the community, how can the community blog best represent you? How are you the community member feeling? What do you like about the current situation? What don't you like? In this first blog post there's a summary of the rise of the community as seen through the eyes of someone who was there during all the heady and exciting days, and weeks and months and years. Also included with this first community blog post is an interview with one of the addon/mod making revolutionaries Kegetys.

The clues lead to the not so secret identity of the community blog's first interviewee

Where have all the destructible buildings gone? (Long time ago)

Hello, I thought it might be interesting to share some information about Porto. Most of our game maps are really huge, but Porto is different - it's "only" 2 km long and about 700 meters wide (the area of main island is 1 square kilometer), which may seem small until you put on your tactical gear, flak vest, backpack, load yourself with ammo, grab your rifle and try to cross it. The motivation behind this rather small (small for ArmA) map is to create a compact multiplayer-friendly area which could be utilized in a multiplayer scenario as a whole. Porto can easily host middle-sized battle with plenty of manoeuvring involved, it loads fast and is not demanding on your hardware.

Porto is included in the official expansion pack ARMA: Queen's Gambit, available worldwide from the online store Sprocketidea.com and from many other retailers.