Announcements and shout outs.
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…
The Blog is Back! First of all, my apologies to the three followers of this blog for the long hiatus. It’s a long story, but briefly put – Junior spent most of January ill with all sorts of interesting bugs picked up in kindergarten (and passing it on, whenever possible).…