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A GHOST WITHOUT DYING

5/30/2020

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I've started work on my next project, a text adventure called "A Ghost Without Dying." This will be a relatively small game, more of a chance for me to get familiar with TI 99/4A disk files and coordinating data between room text, inventory, players, and dialogue trees.  There will be plenty of spaces to explore, and what I hope is an engrossing story, as well as some characters you must interact with to achieve your goals.

It'll be another XB game, and one that I hope will work well from floppy disk on real iron, despite lots of disk access.  This will be a test run for some ideas I have for larger games down the road.  I hope to update every few days until I have something more concrete to show you.

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DICE RACK IS RELEASED

5/29/2020

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My newest game, Dicecrash II: Dice Rack, is now available for the TI 99/4A.  It's a sequel of sorts to 2015's "Dicecrash," and it takes a different approach to the "arrange the falling dice" idea.

I'm still working on the last little bit of Enemy Lines's AI, and continuing to struggle with decade-old code in that game, so I took a break to write this one as a sort of palate cleanser.  It was nice to start and finish a new project in a short time, and I think it's a neat little game.  I hope you enjoy it.

Besides Enemy Lines, I'm starting work on a text adventure called "A Ghost Without Dying," that I'll hopefully do more posting about here, to document my progress.  I'm really excited about trying a new style of game, and I have a lot of ideas for it.

Some time this year, I am planning a physical release of Dicecrash, Sixxit, and Dice Rack.  This will be a small run of floppy-disk based software in full packaging with manual.  In addition, I plan to use Dice Rack as one of my test projects to start converting games to other platforms.  My hope is to have it available for several other retro PCs, including a couple that may surprise you, by year's end.

I hope you're all staying safe and sane during these weird times.  Thanks for visiting.
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