Jamyskis

As my professional life has suddenly and inexplicably gone very quiet, I’ve decided to devote a little of my time to continuing the development of my games and website.

As far as Open Invaders is concerned, I’ve managed to iron out a few bugs, some of which were reported by a few very nice members of the Linux community and spruced up the command line interface a little. It is now possible to start the game without sitting through the logos at the start every time, and to answer the calls regarding PulseAudio in Ubuntu (the implementation of which was a joke!), I’ve made it possible to use OSS or ALSA directly. I’m a while away from a 0.4 release yet, but it’s looking good.

I’ve also started making plans for two new projects. The first is Arcadium - astute visitors to my site will notice there’s been an ‘under construction‘ page for this project for the past couple of years. I’m not going to spoil the surprise here, save to say that I think the idea that I have in mind is really quite original. Should the project pan out as it should, it really will be like nothing else you have ever played.

The second is an as yet unnamed platform/RPG project. Of course, this is going to be much more long-term, and it’ll be a while until any kind of playable game arises, but the map engine and quest engine have already been drawn up and I’m going to start programming it once I’ve got Arcadium half-way done.

And many thanks to all those who have sent e-mails of appreciation for Open Invaders. It’s been encouraging to read them.