Short update on sheep development.
For the last week I’ve been maintaining an average of finishing a sheep a day. As of today I’m racheting that up to 2 sheep a day with the allowance to either work forward or catch up as needed on weekends. However, at midnight every Sunday 14 more sheep will be completed.
This puts me at 31 days for the next round of beta testing. Give or take a day or so for a pass on the card files and rules to get updated with the more updated rules from the existing rounds of playtesting.
I know, 2 cards a day doesn’t sound like much.. but it’s probably going to work out between 1 1/2 to 2hrs a day. Which, with a 2 mo old baby and normal household duties and freelance work piled on top.. It’s going to be a challenge and I forsee several late Sunday night cram sessions in the not too distant future.
However, tonight, I’m on top of the world and on schedule. Which feels damn nice.
Some quick random notes from the gaming world.
http://www.frozensynapse.com/ is a fun turn based combat a-la X-com but with the whole future retro graphics vibe. Games are very quick (5 -10 turns) and you don’t both have to be online at the same time. You can snag 2 beta keys for this excellent indie game for $25 (one for you and one for a friend) Anyone playing feel free to shoot me a challenge (Drakkehim) I’m pretty terrible but it’s a heck of lotta fun.
http://www.sleepisdeath.net/ may be one of the more important Art ‘games’ that’s out there. Its 2 player always.. no ai.. freeform collaborative storytelling. The community that’s serious about it are making filly, fun and sometimes deeply touching and moving stories together. I’ve got 1/2 the cast of buffy built. 🙂 It’s all user generated content. But content travels between players which is very cool. So the more you play, the more stuff you have to play with.
http://www.taleworlds.com/main.aspx Mount and Blade – Warband is a very nice update to Mount and Blade which is probably the coolest mounted warfare game ever. Made by a very talented bunch of guys from Turkey.
http://www.kings-bounty.com/eng/ The kings bounty series is just crazy turn based fantasy strategy that’s incredibly well done. The Rock Paper Shotgun guys talk about it here. And it just happens to be available on whatever digital download service you prefer. (steam, gamersgate, dirct2drive etc)
Oh, and they’ve announced Witcher 2… yeah.. if it’s half as good as the first one it’ll be amazing.
That’s it.. I’m done.. -G’night.
