Pirates and Traders 1 update

A new update just went out for Pirates and Traders & Pirates and Traders: Gold. Nothing dramatic, really – although it took some time – but an Android SDK update was required in order to keep the game(s) alive on Google Play. It should now be good for another few…

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Post Summer Plans

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…

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Gamepedia

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…

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Minimal viable product

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…

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Beta Comments

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…

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What comes next…

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…

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