I’m an open-source evangelist. I’ve been so, pretty much since my second professional job. I was given the opportunity to make the first project I worked on there open source, and I basically never looked back. There are so many benefits to open source: beter visibility, better recruiting, better testing…
Well, this year went fast. Unfortunately, things have pretty much carried on this year where it left off last year – i.e., way too much things to do at work eating into my free (and MicaBytes development) time. That reality – combined with the problems I had while developing the…
As part of my ongoing quest to streamline and improve the games and their documentation, the latter are now being moved to Gamepedia, where the Pirates and Traders + Pirates and Traders 2 wiki will now become available. The documentation remains sparse, but – as and when I find time…
Those of you following on Discord have probably noticed that I’m doing a lot of “upgrading” of the infrastructure surrounding MicaBytes. Setting up the Discord server is one, of course, but I’m also working on the wikis and moving my issue/bug lists. My hope is, of course, to make communication…
So, as I’m typing this version 0.289 – the Land Combat upgrade – is finally rolling out as a production release. We’re not quite done yet. The current version is a first version and still very limited: there are only a few combat units available (and weapons cannot be used…
So, if it wasn’t obvious from the previous post, I think one of the key elements in making a replayable tactical combat system is to have a variety of enemies with very distinct styles. That, unfortunately, tends to be a problem when you are trying to model historical combat. It…