Announcements and shout outs.
Happy New Year. As mentioned in the last post of 2014, the end of that year had me in the process of moving home – a process that takes a while. That process is still not finished (indeed, one can only speculate about when it might be), but it has…
As you may have noticed if you’ve visited here once in a while, I’ve turned comments back on for the blog. I turned it off some years ago, due to the amount of spam that it generated and since the forum more or less filled the need for somewhere to…
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…
This is just a short announcement to warn that support for Android OS 1.5 in future versions of Pirates and Traders will most likely cease. Pirates and Traders was originally coded for a HTC Magic phone running Android 1.5, but Android soon moved on to more advanced frameworks. Fortunately, Pirates…