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 …
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’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 …
A number of bugs have been reported in the version I uploaded. Some of them make sense and will be fixed by the new save/load system, while others are entirely insane. (Spawning in terrain? That shouldn’t be even remotely possible.) I’m wondering whether some of them aren’t simply due to …
I have gotten approximately 6.5 hours of sleep in the last three days. Oddly enough, this is not due to working on the game; but it doesn’t make it easier. So you’ll hopefully excuse me for going to sleep now, and uploading the game tomorrow. Uploading means waiting – and, …
You: So, when’s Phenomenon 32 going to be released? Tomorrow? Next week? Next year? Never? Jonas: Well, I was hoping tomorrow. Sky Cat: Don’t be too sure about that. Jonas: Why? It’s done, and I’ve decided that this crashing thing can’t be fixed. It doesn’t happen all the time, anyway. …
Once again, I spent many hours today trying to figure out and destroy bugs. For a time I was certain I’d managed to get them all, then I despaired when everything started going to hell, then I apparently managed to get to the point where there is only one random …
Every time I think I’m done, another bug pops up. Or two. The current ones look like they might be fixable. The only one where I’ve given up is the occasional tinny sound – I was certain it was my sound card, but right now I just have no idea. …
