Yeah I’m very proud, I finished USM2 player transfer for CPU controlled teams. They don’t make stupid move (as far as I could check) and usually they buy “good” players, of course keeping in mind their expenses budget and the other team willingness to depart from their best talents! 😉
Speaking about soccer, tonight there’s France – Italy. Will be fun, a pity both Zidane and Materazzi don’t play anymore! 😀
Ok the last few minor bugs of Magic Stones have been fixed, so I officially released the version 1.1.8 with the new quest “Haunted Mines of Vox”. One of my favourite new avatar opponent is the mudman, pictured above. You’ll have to think carefully to beat them, because their special skill is to reproduce themselves! I took inspiration from a old anime I saw when was younger (don’t remember the name sadly) in which there was a powerful enemy like that one that was capable of quickly reproducing himself, making him almost unbeatable 🙂
What is the right move for hosting? as you know, being indie means having your own “shop on the web”. Having a reliable webhosting is very important. I think that while in the beginning a shared hosting is ok, once you start to have several games out is very important to have your own dedicated server.
I strongly reccommend to avoid any VPS! I tried myself, and was really a bad experience! Site was always slow, had lot of problems, totally unreliable. I talked to several other author and webdesigner and everyone told me to avoid VPS like plague, so if you are so stubborn to get one, don’t complain once you’ll start to have problems 😉
Beside that, the price difference from a (good) VPS to a dedicated server is marginal and so really there’s no reason to save even 20-30$ a month (which is 1-2 sales) to have a website running badly. If you’re not ready for the big step, is better to just keep using a normal shared hosting, at least you save money ! :p
I recently found a nice shareware game made by a fellow australian developer, called Omega Syndrome, and decided to give it a try because I read on the website that was a title similar to Fallout serie (which I loved). After playing it for a while was surprised, the game reminds me really of Fallout and the battles are in the Jagged Alliance 2 style (which was another great game from the past).
I suggest all turn-based games lovers to try this one, could be a pleasant surprise!
Sometime you think a game or an update would be very fast to make and instead takes you twice the time… on the other hand, sometime what you think will take lot of time, gets done much faster. This happened with my latest Magic Stones update, that you can download right now here:
http://www.didone.com/games/MagicStonesTrial.exe (Pc)
http://www.didone.com/games/MagicStonesTrial.zip (Mac)
as always if you already have bought the game, just reinstall and it will keep your current druid progresses. New quest added and 2 new avatars. Remember is a BETA, so there could be still bugs!