A real friend

That’s really not my lucky period… only 6 months ago I lost my sweet kitten Maja and now was the turn of Lucy, my black dwarf rabbit 🙁
I have many thoughts in my mind now, many memories of her. No need to say that I miss her a lot….I’d like anyone who is used to have cats and dogs (I have them too) to try to have a rabbit, they can give you a lot with only a bit of attention in exchange!
I’m sure many people would be surprised by their sweet behaviour, even if dwarf rabbits are very fragile (their average life is 7-8 years only).

Bologna FC in Serie B?

Well it seems that maybe next year my favourite team, Bologna FC, will be playing in Serie B… 🙁
Today match was lame… and they’ll have to play the play-off match against Parma. Even if in the 1st match they’ll play without a lot of titolars (like Gilardino, Morfeo, etc) I have do doubt that Bologna will manage not to score!!
Anyway… the USM2 database engine is coming out very nicely. I plan to include also more accurate financial informations in this sequel. I hope to finish Magic Stones soon too… argh I’m doing too many things together!!!

Magic Stones delayed

Well… as expected I couldn’t really finish my next game Magic Stones by the end of May 🙁
There are various reasons for this, including the fact that I prefer to delay the game release by some weeks but have it free of bugs. Another good reason is that I am working at the same time on my soccer game USM2 🙂

Useful reviews :)

I recently was reviewed by the website www.bytten.com and was fun because they reported a bug that no one else did (I should fire all my betatesters now… eheh).
Basically it happened that the game displayed a wrong texture when you clicked on “CANCEL CONTRACT” button. This was really a particular case since I never tried it myself 🙂
Anyway I already fixed it and uploaded the correct version. This review was very helpful!

Extract from it:

Overall I found Universal Boxing Manager to be entertaining and
involving, two things I was not expecting from a game about boxing! If the
glitches can be sorted out, this has the potential to be a great game, with a
new twist on an old idea. Football management is dead – bring on the boxers!

Game balancing

Today I finished all the “regular” avatars special attacks!! woowooo
There are a total of 20 different avatars each one with his special attack, so wasn’t easy. I had also to balance them, and probably isn’t done yet: will take several test matches before I’ll be able to say “ok, the Air avatars have the Unicorn which is very powerful but the other ones are weaker than…” and so on.
I also hired someone to work on my other game USM2, which I hope to finish by end of summer (just in time for next soccer season)!