Yes, I finished the battle system between druids in Magic Stones! 🙂 I’m quite happy with it, the opponent druids are not brilliant but surely not completely stupid (and anyone who tried programming AI in a battle game know what I’m talking about!).
Now I “just” need to add the dungeon exploration mode, and some stuff there and there (like the victory/defeat screen, the item management, etc).
What it started like just another clone of card games turned out into something completely different and much much bigger (and better, in my opinion). That’s the cool thing of being an indie, no deadlines to respect ! (well, almost no deadlines..!)

Here in Italy we have absurd temperatures… average of 33°C with 60% humidity minimum 🙁
No need to say that is impossible to work with computer in such conditions…! so I guess I’ll have to take a forced break from my job until the heat stops… I don’t want absolutely to buy an A/C for that!

On indieforum site my friend cliffsky asked an interesting question about market saturation.
Many people agreed that there’s no need to worry about them in indie market. I believe it so, even if I am not too enthusiastic about it. I believe it all depends on what COMPETITION you have.
Say you make another of those align 3 color game… unless it has a good graphics or at least some innovative ideas (very hard), you’re likely to sell close to zero 😛
Same thing applies for all kind of games. If you make a basketball management game, and there’s little competition, you might continue to sell it for 10 years. But if after 2 months another similar game comes out which beats yours 10 a zero, you’ll sell much less.
Still, my first game USM was basically a soccer management game like the Championship manager series with only one advantage over it: the speed of execution. That was enough and is still enough to get some sales every month, after 2 years… 😉

Recently I read a lot of good things about that place. I watched a tv show 2 days ago, and was awesome. Nature, green places, few density of people per km… seems really a wonderful place to live.
Also you can see the dawn and the sunset over the sea… what more can you ask? 😉 who knows, maybe in some years I’ll think seriously about it!

Yeah, took me almost a week to recover from the shock :p
My team, Bologna FC, got relegated. I must say that they deserved it, as they lost with two semi-autogoals and did nothing to win that game. Well I guess that when I’ll program my game USM2 I’ll need to include also italian Serie B so I can play Bologna while testing the game 😉