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…
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…