About “Pirates and Traders”.
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, …
I am very wary of making promises wrt game development. Although I try to maintain a steady tempo in this work, it remains an activity that I primarily do in my – all too scarce – free-time. The past few months have been harsh on my free-time. Part of this …
It’s been a while since my last post, so I guess I’d better explain. I (we) moved to a new home this December, and as those of you who have done so in recent times will no doubt recollect, that is a huge drain on one’s free time. All of …