On indiegamer forums are debating again which graphic render is the best. Well personally I use PTK to make my games, so until 2 months ago I could just use OpenGL. Now that DX support has become available, I tried porting my game The Goalkeeper. Now you can play it both using OpenGL or DirectX (you can choose at startup). I can say that the number of sales has slightly increased. It’s too early to tell (just 2 months of data isn’t enough) but I am thinking seriously that having the possibility to run the game also using DX is a very good thing…!

Yes I feel a bit under pressure 🙂 I just opened the new forums and instantly got request about release dates for Magic Stones and USM2… ok next time I won’t even announce an “estimate” release date!! 🙂
After all if big companies delay their titles for 1-2 years I can delay one of my small games of 2-3 months no?

Woowoo my favourite team, Bologna FC, won the first match of the play-off to stay in Serie A for 1-0 against Parma (home team). There have been some weird situations and a final brawl with the good old trainer Mazzone involved. All in all, was a fun match! 🙂

The best advice I can give to newbie indie developers (this might apply also in general) is: try to collaborate. Try to create and mantain good relationship with other indie developers.
Too many times I’ve heard some people “I don’t trust that one” and so on. This is really stupid, expecially when you’re starting. Fun because those same people refuse maybe to do a links exchange, to make a game together, to allow some other developer to port his game to a different platform (Mac, PocketPC) and maybe THEN they accept 20% royalties from unknown publishers or give retail licensing rights to the 1st distributor that ask them…
The other fellow developers are much more likely to be honest like you: they’re person, not corporations… 😉

As you may know recently Google did a major update that seems isn’t finished yet.
It happened also on november 2004, and in both cases my site got severely penalized 🙁
It seems that got a hard hit on various search queries, but is slowly going up… like if they put all sites to “zero” and then they gained positions again depending on links number/quality.
Anyway the most fun thing is that the number of sales remain the same even with about 800 less visitors (daily)…!!