Just a quick note that I’ve locked down the design for Game in a Week 6;  right now, my plan is to use the whole quote as its title:  “Lord, save us from that horrible land!”  Although as that’s sort of long (says the guy who named the ‘Nicholas Spratt’ game), I may use it…

So I’ve been making more progress on the Game in a Week.  No game screenshots to show yet, but here’s a neat piece of tech that I’m using, which will be finding its way into MMORPG Tycoon 2.0.  What you’re looking at again is a slow zoom-in on a very, very small terrain in wireframe…

So after a day of consideration, I’m putting forward my current musings on a design for GiaW #6 (currently work-in-progress-titled “Lord”). As a reminder, the theme quote this time is:  “Lord, save us from that horrible land!”, a lyric taken from the novel Dune. First, some constraints that I need to keep in mind during…

I have a confession to make. I never liked Dune. Now, I’m not talking about the father of the modern RTS genre, nor am I talking about the frequently-incomprehensible David Lynch film, nor even the John Harrison miniseries (although I never particularly liked any of those, either).  No, I’m talking about Frank Herbert’s Dune, the…