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February 18th, 2012:

Today's Ancient DOS Game is a bit of an interesting case, despite the fact the game itself is incredibly simple. Made for an episode over the 12 minute mark for a game that really only should've taken 8 or 9 minutes to cover. :O

In other news, I've started programming my next game, so there will definitely be some alphas to check out soon! Don't really have a time-table in place as next week's ADG episode is going to demand a lot of my attention, but from my preliminary testing, the minimum system requirements will likely be a 1 GHz system with 512 MB RAM and a mid-range video card with 256 MB of video RAM.

More details to come! ;)

February 11th, 2012:

I'm gonna make this quick since I'm really tired and want to go to bed. The newest filler is up, my eye is all better, and I added a neat little tidbit to the additional info for the last episode of ADG, Episode 75. Enjoy! :D

February 4th, 2012:

Sorry this episode is a little later than usual. I had a medical issue with my eye that resulted in lots of pain, delaying a lot of my work on this week's ADG. Don't worry, it doesn't seem like it was anything more than a "stye" in a really nasty, interior spot, and while I'm still in pain as I write this, it's VERY slowly feeling better. Also, I'm really surprised no one even attempted to guess what this week's Ancient DOS Game would be! :O

Ah well. In doing this web show of mine I've found it interesting how there's a lot of games I consider to be common-knowledge or staples, despite them being virtually unknown, and that I've gotten some requests for games that were really popular at the time, but which I had never heard of or had no interest in.

Also, lots of user-submitted corrections this week. For the Doom episode, I added some minor details about getting source ports working in general. For the SkyRoads episode I added a link to a modern remake titled "Tasty Static". For both the Duke Nukem and Duke Nukem II episodes, I added a note that if you want to obtain these games from a Duke Nukem 3D CD, it has to be one of the original CDs and NOT the Atomic Edition! :O

January 28th, 2012:

Once again, not too much to say about today's episode. I'm still hard at work on my next game project, but I still don't have anything to really show about it yet. Again, I am going to have public alphas once I've got it going. One thing I can say about the game though is that it will be controlled from an overhead perspective similar to the DOS game "Seek and Destroy", where you face forwards from the bottom of the screen and the world turns around you. ;)

Again, more information to come!

January 21st, 2012:

Not a lot to say at the moment, been busy with all kinds of stuff. I wanted to get information about my next game project up before this month was over but I've been having to redesign aspects of the game constantly and as a result, I haven't begun programming it yet as I had originally planned. I'll keep everyone up to date as I make progress.

Once programming of my next game DOES begin, I plan to offer routine Public Alpha builds for everyone to try out. Yes, ALPHA builds, as in they are not guaranteed to work and likely won't have much to hold the average person's interest, but the reason I want to make them available is to ensure that what I'm making will work on a variety of hardware, and knowing the quirks early on will save me headaches later on. ;)

More information to come as more developments take place!