Whew… time passes fast when you’re busy like crazy. I’ve been sharing the past couple of weeks between completing the write-up for the “Hunt for the Treasure Fleet” story line (including testing it – and killing off an innumerable number of pirates), and working on the game framework for my next game(s). The…
With my attention turning towards Dwarf King (and the Small Battle system), I will – of necessity, since I’m only one person – be doing less work on Pirates and Traders in the future. Some of you who have contacted me in the past weeks may already have noticed this…
No – Dwarf King really doesn’t have a lot to do with Dwarf Fortress. I never managed to get into the game when I had the time, and these days I don’t have the time. But there is an overlap in themes, of course, even though the game play itself…
Well, I promised to talk about the game mechanics, so I better deliver. Small Battles is a pretty stylized game, mechanically. It has to be – with each side typically fielding 15 to 20 units. In most ancient battles, that will probably see the standard infantry unit averaging 2000 or…
I recently released the MicaByte “Game Library” as open-source. I work almost entirely in Native Android. That’s mostly a convenience thing – the time I have for game development is very limited, and although I am a C++ programmer by trade I like Java as well. Java is not a…
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…