Announcements and shout outs.
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…
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…
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…