About “Pirates and Traders”.
Ahoy there. Hope you all had a good summer. As often before; apologies for being rather quiet for the past couple of months. The reason is the same as usual – daily life threw a massive amount of work at me just before summer. I had hoped to get some…
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…
One thing that you will sometimes see when reading indie game developer blogs/postmortems is the discussion of the minimal viable product (game). It’s one of those terms that have different meanings depending on who you ask, but from my point of view, it is essentially an agile development method. Essentially, the…
The beta version is almost ready for release. I am currently working through the game save/loading code and fixing up some missing/out of data functionality, and once that is done, I’ll roll out the game to the testers. Note that although I call this a Beta, that’s not really an…
To celebrate five years of Pirates and Traders, the Gold! version is on 60% sale for the rest of the week on Google Play. I had hoped to be able to announce the Beta of Pirates and Traders 2 this week, but alas – it is not to be. Easter…
According to my records, Pirates and Traders is exactly five years old today. I started work on Pirates and Traders almost immediately after having released my first game – “A Brief History of Rome” – on the Android market on January 30, 2010. I wanted to do another historical game,…