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So, the last time we spoke, I reflected upon the sheer amount of background information the game was requiring. This past week, we branched out from that and started getting ...
2020-03-05 01:51:01 +0000 UTC View Post
PeaceIsland posts
New Approaches and Old Factories.
Before I get into the meat of things, I wanted to share a particularly nice piece of art we got in for Peace Island - The game's title in Arabic Calligraphy, in the shape of a cat:...
2020-02-26 02:28:55 +0000 UTC View PostOn World Building & Amusement Parks
This week was another one of those stretches where I found myself tackling stuff I never thought I would be doing.
2020-02-19 01:01:26 +0000 UTC
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On Icebergs & Alphas
It's been somewhat of a busy week- our revised website went up, The AI for the "Invasive s...
2020-02-12 01:06:59 +0000 UTC View PostA Day Late, but NOT A Dollar Short.
I'LL BE HONEST WITH YA'LL:
I spent half of the last week down in New Jersey, helping out an old friend and consulting with some old business associates (and ...
2020-02-06 03:31:47 +0000 UTC View PostGood thing it's always autumn on Peace Island...
...because we're getting into the deep part of the Maine winter here in Portland. There comes a time in mid-January where the snows have laid on the ground for weeks, and in ...
2020-01-22 00:13:33 +0000 UTC View PostRollin' Rollin' Rollin, though the streams are swollen...
As I have oft stated here, the strangest, yet most wonderful transition Peace Island has taken ...
2020-01-15 00:43:08 +0000 UTC View PostA CRAZY week...
First off, one of our main development machines was offline for two workdays, due to hardware conflict issues. However, thanks to the talented bunch of folks we've assembled,...
2020-01-08 01:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe depths of winter, and postcards...
While I've long since grown used to the cold and precipitations associated with Maine winters, these ar...
2019-12-31 23:15:35 +0000 UTC View PostTechnical Debt...
This week has been a slow one- admittedly, because I believe that all of us have been busting our collective butts, and deserved both the weekend, and at least two days off for the...
2019-12-25 00:39:04 +0000 UTC View PostProgress on all fronts!
I'll start off with Mac alpha news:
We went ahead and priority-shipped our workhorse Mac to our chief backend developers in New York.
Due to the recent increase...
So, it's been a crazy few days!
I guess we should first welcome all the new supporters!
The internet...
2019-12-10 22:58:51 +0000 UTC View PostStable 0.8 Mac alpha achieved!!!
As you can see, Gary isn't too enthused, but for us, this is a GREAT step forward...
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2019-12-07 23:57:26 +0000 UTC View PostIt has been a while since we've posted publicly about where we are...
...But before we get into that- I want to assure the Mac folks out there: We are getting closer to isolating the issues related to the Apple build of the latest alpha.<...
2019-12-03 23:59:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe Mac Alpha is coming soon.
I am SINCERELY sorry - this further delay is happening despite my best efforts.
As soon as this post goes live, I'm shutting down all work on the project, until we get the Ma...
2019-11-28 02:47:01 +0000 UTC View Post0.8 Alpha has been delayed 72 hours (until 11/22)
We sincerely apologize.
2019-11-20 03:44:43 +0000 UTC View PostPeace Island is now two years old - here's every 50th screenshot I've taken since the project began!
On the evening of November 17, 2017, a line cook in Portland Maine sat down in front of his PC, took a deep breath, and sketched out the first blobs which eventually became Peace Island. &nbs...
2019-11-18 00:13:25 +0000 UTC View Post0.8 Alpha Crunchtime!!!
Work on interiors has had to take a backseat, because we're spending all of our time these days tying up all the loose ends that are in the way of the Alpha release, next week.
... 2019-11-13 00:40:45 +0000 UTC View PostSo- since last we met...
The greatest of our energies at the home office have been spent refining interiors.
Boring on the outside...
2019-11-06 02:25:00 +0000 UTC
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Heading inside for the winter...
Just about every day, I look up at the big whiteboard above my desk, and see just a little bit more blue and green creeping in. Some days the change is a bit slower than othe...
2019-10-30 01:10:00 +0000 UTC View PostA pause to reconsider...
First, the bad news: The next alpha is being delayed by two weeks. We are now planning to release it on the weekend of November 16th.
We have had to slow down work on t...
2019-10-23 00:11:48 +0000 UTC View PostProgress, a bit more backstory, and cards galore!
First off, lemme tell ya'll about a wacky thing I did, this past weekend:
I took TWO WHOLE DAYS OFF, in a ROW!!!
Talk about walkin' the
Back-end shenanigans, cards, and a bit more backstory...
But before I get to all of that, I wanted to again thank everyone who has contributed $25 or more up to this point, and who also sent along their mailing addresses. We've mai...
2019-10-08 23:51:56 +0000 UTC View PostSo- Laura, Curbs, Banks, Postcards, and other stuff!
So, I guess the big news is that Laura, the original Co-Developer of Peace Island, has joined the project, full-time!
2019-10-02 00:29:35 +0000 UTC
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Progress - and some backstory, finally!
So, the past week is the first where we've had a full slate of folks working on the project - a...
2019-09-22 22:55:36 +0000 UTC View Post"Hurry Up & Wait"
First off, it has come to our attention that certain Radeon graphics cards are having issues with the PC alpha...
A few days after I released the PC alpha, some folks were ge...
2019-09-18 00:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostSo- one of the things I didn't anticipate...
...was how, as activity on the Peace Island project ramped up, my individual role would become more supervisory, than hands-on...
It's quite a change - for about a year and a...
2019-09-12 22:54:16 +0000 UTC View PostThis is not the update I wanted to type, today...
So, after six 11-hour days of work, the conversion of the Peace Island 0.7 alpha is unfortunately no closer to release, than it was one week ago.
I wanted to put that up fron...
2019-09-06 18:57:12 +0000 UTC View PostAn open apology to Mac users, and information about the postcard premiums.
First off, I wanna talk to the Mac users out there: I've spent the past two days working on getting a Mac build of the Peace Island alpha ready.
2019-09-04 03:48:46 +0000 UTC
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So, Guys...
Over 100 people weighed in on my last post, saying they were cool with waiting another few days...
2019-08-27 01:03:36 +0000 UTC View Post