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Dozen Days Pentalogy

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The history of the Dozen Days Pentalogy is kind of mixed up. Initially, for a brief stint when I was going to make Blazing Games have daily updates (back in the time when I had hopes of turning Blazing Games into something more than a hobby) I decided that I would have a series of games that were created in a single day. Just after announcing the project, I got a real third-party project and had to cancel my daily update plans as well as put on hold the Dozen Days project.

I then had an idea for a single game that would combine the 60 games (5 series of 12 games) that made up the planned series. The first epi was created and then I ended up again putting the series on hold.

The next time I came back to the series, I decided to go back to the original game in a day roots and create each episode of the series as a game-in-a-day challenge. This was successfully done for the first series in the game, Dozen Days of Dice. In Dice, the only code/assets that I allowed myself to use was code/assets that I created for earlier episodes in the series. Code-reuse actually did play a huge part in the development of the later episodes when I switched from Flash development to Flex development due to Flex being more Open Source Friendly. There was one problem. Finding a whole day to develop the game in was proving to be quite a challenge. So in November of 2008 I had a poll on my site asking if people cared if the games in the series were developed in a single day or if I could switch to a multiple-session development format but would still restrict the development time to under 24 hours.

For the Second series, Dozen Days of Words, I switched to that multi-session format. At the time I am writing that, the series is just underway so I will update this section when I start season 3 of this game in 2010.

 

	A Dozen Days of Dice (12 of 12 episodes released) A dozen different dice game that can be played against human (hotseat) or computer opponents.
	A Dozen Days of Words (12 of 12 episodes) The second collection is made up of word games.
	A Dozen Days of Tiles (3 of 12 episodes) The third collection deals with tile based games and may even branch off into the realm of Arcade games in addition to the obvious Sudoku, Mah Jongg, and Domino games.
	A Dozen Days of ??? The fourth collection has no games released yet and so the type of games that this category will consist of will remain secret until a game in this category has been released.
	A Dozen Days of ??? The fifth collection has no games released yet and so the type of games that this category will consist of will remain secret until a game in this category has been released.