So, for the past couple of weeks most of my time has been spent working on getting a playable alpha version of Small Battles ready and into the hands of the testers. It will be a while after that before the game itself is ready for release, but I want…
I have been enjoying working on the setting for “Dwarf King” with Ashton recently. It is interesting work, because having to build a game around Dwarves means that we have to figure out how their society fits into the game mechanics and the story setting. And it is hard work,…
With the announcements on Small Battles and Dwarf King done, I’d better talk a little bit about what will be happening with Pirates and Traders in 2013. Most of my development effort this year will go to working on the two announced games. However, this does not mean that I…
In my New Year’s post, I teased two new projects, one of which is a game with the working title of “Dwarf King”, so what is it? Well – one of the things I have been wanting to do, is to reuse the choose-your-own adventure/RPG system I’ve built in other…
So I teased two projects in the New Year’s posts, one of which was this one: “Small Battles”. It is a tactical battle system that I’ve been working on in one form or another for a very long time. It originates in the battle engine work I did on the…
As those of you who follow the Twitter/Facebook feed may have gathered, Christmas brought a new addition to my household. Given that MicaByte is essentially a one-person, part-time company, that means that the next couple of months will be… interesting. I expect to be able to continue development on my…