I read on indiegamer forum the “sad” news of my friend Cliff being fired from his daily job. That sucked for him I suppose, but I am glad that someone as talented as him now joined the indie developers world.
I supposed now he will have mixed feeling, but if things will go well for him (which I hope), I’m sure he will be more than happy of the indie lifestyle!

…if things go bad, he can alwasy try to relocate in New Zealand, since he’s british he should have big chances of getting in there 😉

I was talking with Emmanuel (funpause owner) yesterday about the importance of having a forum. He objected that since he makes prevalently casual games, he thinks that his customers would find a forum quite useless.
Instead for software houses like mine who makes complex games, definitely not casual (like UBM or Magic Stones) having a forums can really help.
Help both you and other players/customers.
You first as developer: as you may know if you’re a programmer, there’s always a very well hidden bug somewhere in the code, and more people can test and easily report it (like in a forum). I fixed many bugs thanks to comments of people in forums. I also post there if “that bug XX was already fixed in version 1.31” so even other people who have same problem can just take a look and find a solution for their problem.

Yes it happened again!!! I can’t stop playing it!! the improvements over the previous game are incredible!! even if is more difficult to play. The shards thing is quite annoying to be honest, I kept dying in a zone called “Weiling Caves” and every time I tried to search it back, I just died again! 🙂
Luckily after 72h of real time they disappear…
In the meanwhile, Magic Stones is featured on Apple.com and I’m very pleased of that 🙂 not only casual games need recognition!!