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…
Those of you following on Discord have probably noticed that I’m doing a lot of “upgrading” of the infrastructure surrounding MicaBytes. Setting up the Discord server is one, of course, but I’m also working on the wikis and moving my issue/bug lists. My hope is, of course, to make communication…
So, as I’m typing this version 0.289 – the Land Combat upgrade – is finally rolling out as a production release. We’re not quite done yet. The current version is a first version and still very limited: there are only a few combat units available (and weapons cannot be used…
So, if it wasn’t obvious from the previous post, I think one of the key elements in making a replayable tactical combat system is to have a variety of enemies with very distinct styles. That, unfortunately, tends to be a problem when you are trying to model historical combat. It…
I’ve had game development as a hobby for way too many years. In all those years, there is one design issue that I’ve worked on in one form or another pretty much constantly: how to incorporate tactical combat into strategic gameplay. I’ve never been satisfied with any of the solutions…
At least outside, what with the heatwave going on. It’s not often that I find myself defeated from development work by the weather, as has been the case a couple of days in the past month. Well, as some of you have found out, I’ve started responding to e-mails and…