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    The End Of SpaceOreMiner


    2011 - 01.31

    Na, only joking 🙂  Bet that got you worried 🙂

    With the installation of the Galactic News Network, I’m putting SpaceOreMiner to the side for a while.  I’m quite happy where it is, though actually just want to tweak the graphs a little on the stats page ( always more coming ! hehe ).  Though I am sure I will be returning to SpaceOreMiner in the near future, I am focusing my efforts on a different project.

    A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine, Inko, approached me with an idea of forming a small team and developing something together.  After much conversation back and forth, we roughed out an idea of a game we would both enjoy developing together.  I’ll be posting here, and on the blog we created for the new game : Project: CARDS.  More info and details will be coming soon.

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    A great use of bombs :)


    2011 - 01.20

    It looks like Eric really loves the bombs 🙂

    Bombs Away!

    Bombs Away!

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    The Great Ore Storage Unit in the Sky


    2010 - 12.07

    As you are no doubt aware, I am logging pretty much everything – every bit of ore you collect 🙂 but where does all this ore go? See below 🙂

    Lots of Ore

    As you can see, that is a helluva lot of ore 🙂 That is every bit of ore which has been collected since the start of version 2.0. Working on getting something like this in-game, in ore hangers/storage units. From these hangers you will be able to sell and ( jomg! ) refine ore into some base elements. The big problem I have at the moment are upgrades – if you need to return to the ore hanger to sell stuff, it makes the first game you play a bit lame. Mine some stuff, then not be able to purchase anything to help you. Though I personally don’t think its that game breaking, it might cause some frustrations down the line. Hopefully I can think of something else 🙂

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    YouTube Vids : SpaceOreMiner Webstats


    2010 - 12.03

    Just realised I hadn’t posted a youtube video for a while, so here you go :

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    Current Progress : Is that a server side asteroid mine?


    2010 - 11.23

    Quite a bit of coding on the next evolution of the game, including something which I think is pretty dang cool – storing your mine on the server 🙂  Nothing except proof of concept yet, but here is a little teaser :

    Check out the link ( i.e. right click it 🙂 ) – yup it is a php file, pulling the data from the database and using gdlib to display it 🙂  This is the state of my current test mine.  Thought the green and black gave quite a nice retro feel to the image 🙂  Will be very intresting once it is in game to generate heatmaps – always loved the heatmaps in halo 3 seeing where and how people play levels.

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