New release - TEST BUILD - is out!

Finally after 8 months of a release silence, we will have a release! First one will go 30.8.2011 to the test build environment and the day after to the public build environment.

In this post I decided to clarify some numbers I touched in my previous post only slightly. Especially traveling speeds and times.

Recently I started looking more into how are we're going to generate the environments for Miner Wars. The game is going to be played within the whole Solar System, an area which has about 1000 million kilometers in a radius, real planets and moons, real travel speeds, no boundaries and a fully dynamic environment.

Next release of Miner Wars is coming this month - we are stabilizing and finishing as many features as possible. Not really adding new stuff, just making existing features stable and polished.

Another week of Miner Wars development is behind us. I bring you some insights into our progress.

I've decided to start writing a progress report on Miner Wars development. You will be able to see what we did last week, what we're up to right now, and expectations of the forthcoming weeks.

Before I went to E3, our team had only about 6 (or so) full-time developers. I was able to dedicate 30-50% of my time to the actual production work - programming Miner Wars. Upon return from E3, we had nearly doubled our staff. About 11 people in Czech office and a few more abroad. I had to make a quick decision – is my future that of a programmer or a leader?

Photos from my trip to US, sorted by date, showing my journey: San Diego, Mexico, Los Angeles, E3, Las Vegas, Nevada, Arizona, Grand Canyon, Phoenix, back to Los Angeles, Universal Studios Hollywood, Hollywood Blvd. (and that's basically it).

Recently I've decided to write a blog to serve as a diary for Miner Wars development, Keen Software House, and my personal life. (The last category is going to be empty most of the time, unfortunately--not because I'm a private person, but because I have no personal life.)