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Archive for July, 2005

The Zuma clone invasion

Saturday, July 30th, 2005 Posted in general | 5 Comments »

Recently there has been a flood of Zuma clones. While personally I don't like much casual games, I must say that Zuma clones are quite fun even for me :) A new game that just came out, Atalantis is a very ...

DirectX AND OpenGL

Tuesday, July 26th, 2005 Posted in general | No Comments »

Yes, isn't anymore a battle between the two: thanks to the latest PTK release, you can have BOTH :) That's what I did with my games The Goalkeeper and Quizland. I just added a small launcher window (default as DirectX to ...

Other devs sales figures

Thursday, July 14th, 2005 Posted in general | 4 Comments »

Is fun that a recurring question of other indies (expecially newbies) is about the sales figures of games. That is really a useless information, and I don't understand why people keep asking for that. You read that developer X sold 100 ...

ADSL in my region

Sunday, July 10th, 2005 Posted in general | 2 Comments »

https://gcms.regione.emilia-romagna.it/templatecms/down.asp?id=1052293&state=notlive this is the current situation in my region. Not bad as I thought, even if the HDSL offer is prohibitive for small companies like mine. I really hope the new elected president of Emilia Romagna, dr. Errani, will mantain his ...

victory!

Tuesday, July 5th, 2005 Posted in general | No Comments »

I have almost finished the "victory screen" of Magic Stones :) this screen shows up when you either win or you are defeated in the battle. It also shows you your improvements in mastering the various runes (spells) of the ...