So, with the game out for less than a day, we have learned the following: The game probably doesn’t run on Windows 7. Still experimenting with this. The file hosts sometimes don’t work properly. I had to remove the FileFront download because the files were corrupted, and Filedropper seems to …
After fourteen months of hard work, an unspecified number of nervous breakdowns, and entirely too many postponements, Phenomenon 32 is ready to be released. I won’t say it’s finished, since we all know that games are never finished, only compiled – but it’s there, and you can play it. It’s …
I have gone over everything again. It seems to be working; crashes exist but are very rare, and don’t damage anything. The installer works, too. I’m still paranoid, because little changes sometimes have huge, unforseen effects, but I think it might be OK. It frustrates me more than I can …
I got up this morning feeling rather sick. Then, being paranoid after yesterday’s problems, I decided to have another look through the code to make sure the game is OK. I believe it will be released today. One thing I can say with some certainty, though, is this: I like …
Upload speeds being what they are, it may be Saturday morning by the time Phenomenon 32 is released. But it will be released. It’s done. It works, and even if there are bugs, the save games should be compatible with new versions. So let us say that the official release …
Phenomenon 32 is almost finished. Well, actually it is finished, but I’m mulling over some sound issues right now. Not so much problems as a way of doing things a little better. But the game can be played, and it doesn’t appear to be crashing. Well, it crashed once, but …
The bad news is that I need to work on Phenomenon 32 for a few more days. The good news is that the reason I need to work on it is that I seem to have discovered the origin of the constant crashing that was so ruining the game for …
The new version of Phenomenon 32 has been compiled. Tomorrow shall be dedicated to playtesting. Let’s hope I don’t find too many problems. Meanwhile, in celebration of this small but perhaps significant victory, here’s Tom Waits performing Shore Leave. It’s not exactly a song, more of a narrative with music, …
I’m annoyed at myself for not posting enough, and especially for updating Commentarium so sporadically in the last few days, but I’m actually working and making real progress. I’ve completed going through the levels of Phenomenon 32 and making various changes, and am now going to add a couple of …
I’ve been making some changes to Phenomenon 32 – beyond the bugfixes, that is. And I’m quite happy with the results so far. Saving and loading has been altered radically. There is now only one game state – you don’t save/load at all. You just continue playing. This means that …
