Hi Folks, I got this news from the GMA games list: From: "David Greenwood" <davidgreenw...@rogers.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 6:54 AM What I am working on: 1. Preparing Time of Conflict 2.0 for release. The date will be dependant on sign off by the beta team. 2. Changes to the MP Server to handle Shades of Doom and Tank Commander. 3. A maintenance release of VIP Mud. 4. A maintenance release of Tank Commander and Shades of Doom. The big changes are more accurate sound direction, and the games now using the folder structures introduced in Vista through Windows 8. 5. I'll decide on the rest of the projects depending on how the previous four go. Probably a Lone Wolf Maintenance release is in order here as well. This is the point where I decide whether to do multi-player Shades of Doom and Tank Commander, or release another game that I've been thinking of.
There are two free games that are completed and are just waiting to be cleaned up for distribution. 1. Magic Square Music. This is similar to the four by four puzzle that was populare years ago, but this is a 7 by 4 puzzle containing 27 (4 times 7 minus 1) snippets of any Mp3 song from your library. You must move the snippets around like the squares in that old puzzle to put your song in order. Once it order, it will play the song in its entirety. I'll release it once I can stop myself playing it. 2. GMA Lander. Remember the old moon lander? GMA Lander allows you to land on Venus, Mars, Earth, and of course the moon. You can also create your own planets and ship resources and capabilities. You only have one key to remember which turns on your retro rockets and turns them off when you release the key. The challenge is knowing when and how long to burn your engines. If you land any faster than a speed of 5 feet per second...Ka boom!. The concept is simple, gravity speeds you up at an ever increasing rate while your rockets slow you down. You only have a limited amount of fuel so use it wisely. I'll probably release one at the same time as Time of Conflict, and the other with the maintenance releases. When I release the games as a maintenance release, they will include automatic key replacement functionality. I could give more information, but people want firm dates and that I can not give. For example, TOC is almost ready to go, but the beta testers found it hard to get together with each other for an on-line game and so it looked like I needed to build a scheduling system which I am working on right now. Multi-player Tank Commander and Shades of Doom are huge jobs, and the rewrite of 70,000 lines of code for the engine will take two years at least, and this depends on me doing nothing else. Regards, David Greenwood, davidgreenw...@gmagames.com http://www.GMAGames.com ************************************************************** Scanned by MailScan AntiVirus and Content Security Software. Visit http://www.escanav.com for more info on eScan and X-Spam. ************************************************************** --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
