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Today while browsing on internet I found a nice game from Niels Bauer, called “Empires and Dungeons”. It is a sort of mix between dungeon exploration and military conquest, in the style of Civilization or better the old Heroes of Might and Magic series. It has lot of features, like resource management, units/structures building and [...]

Sep 30th, 2006 | Filed under other games, roleplay games, strategy games

Ok I want to have a bit of fun so I decided to write the: typical average newbie indie developer first steps into the business! Note: the following text is probably exaggerated a bit, but is based on real facts! I’ll call the developer Joe Smith. Joe looking for porn sites finds by accident one [...]

Sep 30th, 2006 | Filed under indie life

LOL! well, I just read this post from cliffsky blog… and must admit that I agree with most he said in there. I’m sure he won’t put his games on any portals in future However, a thing nobody says is that when you’re selling directly, you must expect very little earnings until 1-2 years have [...]

Sep 23rd, 2006 | Filed under indie life

After some recent troubles I decided to postpone the deadline for estimated release of usm2… I hoped to finish the beta for end of september, and indeed there isn’t much left to do. But I’m not a machine, I’m a human so I really needed a break. After working hard for almost 2 years, I [...]

Sep 21st, 2006 | Filed under indie life, winter wolves games

My girlfriend got a present from her latest online-flower purchase… I don’t know the technical name but is one of those instrument to measure temperature, weather, humidity, etc. Well look at this picture… I’m a bit scared, 71% humidity inside my room?! now I understand why I have sometime bones-pain …!! I need to fix [...]

Sep 16th, 2006 | Filed under general