brikez

Hosting and creating different projects and ideas. From my blog to cloud services and game server, everything under one brand.

I started building my own server in 2016. It was an ancient decommissioned server that I got from a local business. Loud as fuck and slow to boot, but it was mine. Slowly but steadily I replaced some of the older parts and started playing around. I ended up with a fairly robust install of Proxmox, which was the starting point of my online presence.

Years went by and I slowly expanded my knowledge with different services and technologys. Even today I’m eager to try new things.

Visual-Novel.info

Writing about Visual Novels is one of my favorite pastimes. I used to manage a small staff of volunteer writers and visits to different conventions, like the DoKomi 2022.

I never knew about Anime culture until my cousin presented it to me one day. Instantly I was hooked and started watching everything i was able to get my hands on. When this phase died out, i found out about Visual Novels, specifically Grisaia no Kajitsu. This was my starting point in the niche of Visual Novels. Having no subvocalization makes me quite a fast reader and Visual Novels rekindled my love for reading. Sometime around 2019 i started writing my first reviews about those kind of games and soon after I found out about Visual-Novel.info. Due to my engangement, diverese skillset with technology and work processes, I soon got to lead our staff of writers. In the year 2022 I spearheaded our first appearance on the biggest anime convention in germany.

ClarionCorp.net

After Strikr.gg went offline, my resurrection attempt Strikr.pro later merged with ClarionCorp.net, to create an even better statpage with more tools than before.

Strikr.gg used to be the best stat page for Omega Strikers. But due to a lack of interest from the developer, the site soon disappeared, leaving nothing but emptiness behind. So I took it upon myself to contact the dev to get the code for the website to resurrect it. I was able to get the code and revive the stat page as Strikr.pro. However, due to a lack of skills in terms of coding, I wasn’t able to get the site completely updated. At this point, I got into contact with blals who was working on a similar idea. Together we merged the site into ClarionCorp.net. Now we continue to update the site, working every day to add more useful tools to the site each day!

If you want to read more about my resurrection attempt, you can do so here.

ETOS.pro

I’m happy to support the competitive European scene with their own website, showcasing ETOS, participating teams, and showcasing all the staff members that make it possible!

Omega Strikers has a healthy North American scene, with plenty of high-level tournaments. The European scene fell greatly behind with basically no regular high-level tournaments or even tournaments at all; until the ETOS Project was born. Now a small team of volunteers are organizing regular tournaments as well as a high-level league where the best players of the European scene can show off their skills and I’m happy to be a part of it, even if it’s just in the background in the production team!

Radio of the Golden Witch

One of my few projects that got a bit more attention. It’s a 24/7 radio of Umineko songs mixed with all the web radio episodes from 2010.

It took me such a long time to read Umineko. My prefered literature always exclusively inlcuded Moeges. Reading it changed my view of Visual Novels completly and opened up a whole new genre for me. One night I was surfing the internet like usual and stumbled upon azuracast. And just a short while later i had my own online radio station, but no songs to play. After a few more days I got to know about Umineko’s Episode R and knew what i had to do. Thus The Radio of the Golden Witch was born!