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August 26th to September 1st, 2007

This article was actually going to be posted a couple of weeks ago but was delayed to emphasis an important poll that helped determine the future direction the site was going to take. The poll was not as successful as I hoped, but it did help me determine a few things. While I suppose I could have posted last week's episode of One of those Weeks this week, I want the episode to clearly be released during the month while this week's release overlaps months. So this week's release is the Making of One of those Weeks Chapter 16.

September 2nd to September 8th, 2007

I have finally got back to working on episodes for the Dozen Days of Dice series which is the first series of five dozen days collections. Due to the nature of this series - I am trying to spend less than 24 hours on each episode- I should have no problem getting ahead on material for this site. But don't worry. I am only planning on releasing one episode from this series every month unless I am desperate for something to release. So today's game is the classic dice game of thirty six. This version of the game is played for points, with the winner of each round getting 2 points but ties only giving the winners a single point.

September 9th to September 15th, 2007

My work on Coffee Quest Revenge resulted in some code that is being put to use in another project. That project is One of those Weeks, and the latest episode that also showcases the early work being done on Coffee Quest Revenge. While I still have a lot of work to do on my new ray caster, I think that it was put to good use for rendering the duct work that you need to travel through in One of those Weeks episode 31: Deadly Ducts.

September 16th to September 22nd, 2007

Last week I surprised everyone by releasing the september installment of One of those Weeks early, but this week's release should come to no surprise if you read my development blog. As I said in monday's post, today's game is the classic version of cribbage. This, of course, is part of the Ultimate Retro Project and is the text based version. The modern version with a proper GUI will hopefully be released within the next few weeks.

September 23th to September 29nd, 2007

For those of you who tuned in this week expecting this month's episode of One of those Weeks, you are a couple of weeks too late so you are going to have to click on the project above or use the news archive. This week, however, is still releated to One of those Weeks as I am releasing the Making of One of those Weeks Chapter 17 and the source code for that episode is being released under the GPL license.

September 30th to October 6th, 2007

I gave readers of the Blazing Games Development Blog a choice between releasing an episode of Dozen Days of Dice and the release of Modern Cribbage. While only one person bothered to email their choice to me, considering how few people read the development blog this is a major response (I wasn't expecting any reply so thanks). Of course, the choice was episode 36 of the Ultimate Retro project: Modern Cribbage.

 

Billy D. Spelchan
President, Blazing Games Inc.