The big autumn update is now live on the beta opt-in channel. Assuming no major issues turn up, it will move into general release within a few days – as usual. As mentioned in a previous post, there are a bunch of major changes in this update. Trade Good system…
Hi all. Just a quick note to let you know that the next update is pending. It’s currently being tested by the alpha testers, and as soon as I feel reasonably confident that it is stable, it will be released to the beta track. Changes that are definitely coming in…
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…
A few days ago, legendary boardgame designer Richard H. Berg passed away. It is hard to overstate the impact this man has had on games as a hobby – 189 published games and expansions on boardgamegeek speaks for itself. He was a singularly ambitious boardgame designer, and continually pushed the…
I’m an open-source evangelist. I’ve been so, pretty much since my second professional job. I was given the opportunity to make the first project I worked on there open source, and I basically never looked back. There are so many benefits to open source: beter visibility, better recruiting, better testing…
Well, this year went fast. Unfortunately, things have pretty much carried on this year where it left off last year – i.e., way too much things to do at work eating into my free (and MicaBytes development) time. That reality – combined with the problems I had while developing the…