About “Pirates and Traders”.
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…
Pirates and Traders version 2.0.0 has finally been released. It took a lot longer than I had expected. Two issues troubled the development. Firstly, I decided to rebuild the RPG module in the game, and that required ripping up a lot of the old gameplay code before putting it together…
The Blog is Back! First of all, my apologies to the three followers of this blog for the long hiatus. It’s a long story, but briefly put – Junior spent most of January ill with all sorts of interesting bugs picked up in kindergarten (and passing it on, whenever possible).…
Pirates and Traders was reviewed in the PCWorld App Guide, which – as far as I know – is the first media review of the game. It got 4 1/2 stars out of 5, which I’m pretty happy about considering the still pretty rough edges on parts of the game.
My development system outage last month really screwed up with plans. To my (sometime) amusement, first the power supply of my PC went AWOL. When I got that replaced (took a week since it was still on warranty), I then found out that my graphics card was entirely shot. So…
Well, that was unexpected. This weekend, the power supply unit of my development PC suddenly decided to die (well, I suspect the PSU – I’m still not 100% sure until I get a reply from the supplier). Fortunately the PSU is still under warranty, though the unfortunate side-effect is that…