rockstar's look changed a number of times (there are some purple rockstar pictures somewhere, sadly the short-lived flash design is lost forever) and finally settled on a design based around dylan's fantastic artwork and jim's design.

we did a bit of beta-testing with some friends of ours, although this only totalled about 50 people... by now jim and robsa had shown the game to a number of london companies, including mtv and vizzavi. after thrashing out a few details the game was sold to vizzavi in dec 2001 and finally went live for the first time in early feb 2002.

it's here that the first group of admins joined us, such as culaina (our longest-standing admin)... the game ran very successfully on vizzavi and increased registrations way beyond their targets. sadly, however, this was not to last. vizzavi folded in under a year and all the addicted pr fans no longer had anywhere to go.... except a couple of chat rooms and forums created by avid fans russ, culaina and deedz.

[this page is taken from the original project rockstar helpdesk]