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With Stak! and Gremlins Grotto now available on the Infinity Game Table market, two more projects have finally passed through the beta process and are coming soon to a table near you! But first, let’s talk about Josh.. No just kidding, great guy, he found a ton of bugs and helped to make these some amazing upcoming releases! The clock is ticking – can you keep up? Opânico is a fast-paced card game that puts your reflexes and quick thinking to the test. In Opânico, the clock is always ticking, forcing you to make lightning-fast decisions and outmaneuver your opponents. This addictive game delivers an exhilarating experience that’ll have you coming back again and again, trying to beat your high score and prove your quick-thinking prowess. Whether you’re looking to elevate game night, spark friendly competition, or simply enjoy some solo entertainment, Opânico is a versatile and engaging way to add a burst of excitement to your free time. A perfect game for anyone who loves a good challenge. If you thrive on the adrenaline rush of timed games and the satisfaction of quick-thinking victories, this is the card game for you. Dive into the thrilling world of our pirate-themed dice game, where adventure awaits with every roll! Engage in epic battles against fearsome Krakens and ghost ships as you race to claim the gold. Explore mysterious islands, uncover hidden treasure maps, and outsmart your opponents to be the first to seize the booty! Perfect for game nights, this captivating experience combines strategy, luck, and a dash of swashbuckling fun that will keep players on the edge of their seats! Will you be the first to seize the treasure and become the ultimate pirate captain? Or will your fleet be sunk to the bottom of the sea? Brush up on that pirate lingo because the high seas await your daring exploits! These aren’t the only the only things coming though. This year has been a whirlwind, with everything happening seemingly all at once. There’s nothing like getting laid off from a job you’ve held for 22 years, only to end up getting a new job as a contractor working with your old coworkers, on your old project, yet for a different company. Gotta love the way life works. The new job does have some downsides though, including slowing down the development process. Not to fear though, several more titles are in the works including variations on 10,000, the dice game, and another based on the old board game, Perfection! In addition to those, a brand new original board game based around the secret lives of aliens.. Do you send a scout down to gather your intel? Beam up and probe a cow? A pedestrian maybe, or do you risk grabbing one of those guys in the black coats that are always chasing you. The choice is yours as long as you can get the information needed for your people to conquer the earth! Also coming soon is a strategy game that’s been done for a while, it just needs some tlc and some AI players. Your goal? Sneak into the dungeon, grab the treasure and get out.. without being seen of course. Can you make it to the vault, avoiding the guards and of course, the other players who might be trying to take your treasure from you. It’s a card / board / strategy game you can even play by yourself! There’s a lot more coming soon, although the pace may slow a bit, but I can assure you that many more wonderful titles are heading your way!    

With Stak! scheduled for release soon, there are a ton of other projects in the works.. Here’s a few that might be making their way to the game table soon! Gremlins Grotto – A simple yet complex strategy game that involves placing gems on a grid in order to complete magic spells. This one is currently in beta testing and has some bugs that still need to be fixed! Rogues N Riches – Another strategy game where you’re goal is to collect the treasure from the vault and make your way to the exit at the other end of the board! Sound easy? It’s definitely not. Plenty of obstacles from monsters, spells and even other players will try to thwart you! Opanico – A custom card game where you need to match different elements on the cards. Your goal? Get rid of all your cards first; but even that may not crown you the winner! Scratch N Score – A common dice game where you take your chances on each roll in order to score the highest amount of points without scratching! Rollin Bonez – Another card game, this time with a pirate twist. Roll your dice in order to collect as many gold coins as you can, but be careful. Ship battles, Raids, Krakens and more are there to oppose you! Can you collect all the treasure and plunder the rest of the players? Unnamed Acronym Game – A concept I am working on that will pit players wits against each other. If I give you an acronym, can you come up with the best meaning for it? Everyone submits their answers and then votes on the winner!  SWASQF – Skunks Will Always Smell Quite Funky ! This concept will allow players to use their mobile devices to connect and enter their answers and vote in secrecy!  

And next up on the list is Stak! Coming soon for the Infinity Game Table! Stak! is based on the classic game of skipbo, which in turn is actually based on several other games. This title has now been brought to the game table with a host of new features! Stak! Is the ultimate card game for players of all ages combining elements of sequencing, luck, and skill to keep you on the edge of your seat. The goal is simple: be the first player to empty your draw pile by building stacks of cards in numerical order. With it’s easy to learn rules, it’s fun for all ages! There are several game options you can customize to get the style of game you prefer. You can adjust the number of cards in your draw pile or you can even add cards to the game and go from 1 to 15! If you’re ready to have some fun, Stak! is for you!   

Another year, another great game release, and hopefully only the first of many! In their terminology, CashFlo has been code released. What does that mean? We have a release date! Wooooohooooo! So, on Feb 6th, jump onto your gameboard or table and snatch this one up fast! They found a lot of bugs, and some especially difficult ones to track down as well. It left me searching through code until the very last moment. You’d think a board game would be pretty simplistic, but, lesson learned.. It’s anything but! It did however give me a lot of ideas and a lot of reuseable code and things to work with for upcoming releases, and with each version and each game, some of those components get better and better and more and more robust, like the player select code.. Yea, I limit to 4 players typically, but if I had to my player select will handle pretty much whatever I throw at it, and it works surprisingly well. It was copied into Rogues and Riches, and is being copied into the next 4 projects as well. I have about 6 total projects in the work, so i’m hoping I can keep pace and release something new every 2 months or so. We’ll see how this goes! For now, it’s time to get back to work!

Cribbage was released on 12/5.. and despite the bugs, (that we have fixed!)  it continues to climb in sales, already surpassing Popalot and two thirds of the way to Tetridoku! Definitely surpassed my expectations, especially in the first 30 days. Now, there numbers and mine didn’t exactly line up, but theres a lot of reasons for that. I did see a bunch posts on social media where people had connectivity issues , so they’d only connect to a hotspot to download, and not stay connected while playing, which would in turn affect my tracking.. So, looks like my portion will be a little more than I expected..  But now that that is done and out of the way, it’s been back to work on some of the other projects sitting around, notably CashFlo, which is currently in beta testing and looking to be released next month. Also coming up will be Rogues & Riches, a board and card game based on robbing the vault and escaping before you’re caught! Definitely a lot of quick fun and strategy involved, and I’m having a blast with it! Once Rogues is off to beta test, it will be time to move on to other projects.. still have goblins grotto, delve, opanico, skip, frustration and more.. I have enough on my plate to last through the year, and maybe then some.. Sigh.. That’s ok I guess, I am loving it and loving that people are having a great time playing my games! Thank you!

Well, this just serves to prove.. No matter how hard you test, watch, examine, rewrite and try to bugproof your code, there will always be something. Just fired off another update for That Cribbage Game.. And trust me, I appreciate the feedback! The game has had amazing sales and everyone loves it, and every bug squashed just makes it better for everyone else! So, turns out there was a bit of code that for some reason I was taking the boardsize and subtracting 1.. so basically what would happen, is in the rare case that you collected enough points to land on the 120 hole exactly.. the game just said, I’m moving you to 121, you won!!! Thanks to Heather and Mark who notified me and captured it on video, we found it, squashed it, tested it, and sent it off to be deployed..  This just says it doesn’t matter how many people you have testing and playing and for however long test, someone will always find something that slips through the cracks.. Mind you cribbage is a complicated game that a lot of people don’t even know how to play, that makes it much tougher for testing as well..  Enough rambling.. back to coding.. Got bugs in CashFlo to squash and I’m sure there are bugs in the 5 ongoing projects, so…. =D

Well, what was started back in June is now done.. Now mind you I took a 90 day break to work on That Cribbage Game, so if I started this in June, through December 1, works out to 6 months there, minus 90 for Cribbage, so about the same time frame; a full board game done in 90 days.. Rather proud of myself.. Of course due the timing and the time for testing, plus closures during the holiday season, it means this wont see publication until January, but hey, it’s done! I still have to do up all the write ups and the media, screenshots, videos etc for it, and I’m sure I’m going to look at performance tweaks.. At least on the game table, which is lowest hardware, it’s running 15fps.. I am going to almost guarantee that’s due to images and compression, so once all that is tweaked, it should be 30fps.. I’m also sure it’s going to run much better on the game board.. better and faster hardware and all.  So overall sine June, that makes 2 games done.. I’m rather proud of myself.. Now if I can cut that time down to 60 days or so?  Then i cant get the next 5 projects done next year.. Lol    5.. Lets see, Opanico, Gremlins Grotto, Frustration, Precision, and Delve.. 3 are clones of other popular games, and 2 are unique titles. All will be developed exclusively for the Infinity Game Table right now..  Anyways, thinking bedtime… it was a good day!

Now that That Cribbage Game is in the hands of the testers.. and then was passed back to me.. then back to them. then back to me. then back to them. then.. well let’s just say it’s always a back and forth process and testers identify things that we as devs, just don’t see, or we saw it so much we just got used to it and it didn’t bother us, or some of these testers are relentless in trying to break things! BUT! That’s a good thing! I’d rather them find these little issues and get them fixed, even if it’s not something a customer would ever likely come across.  To me, it’s release ready, it’s just a matter of them setting a release date, getting promo videos playing, and setting a price, which i still haven’t decided on yet. Leaning towards 6.49.. I want a little more than 4.99 but at the same time I don’t want to alienate people by going up 8.99 or something. Some people like me, will see a 8 or 9 dollar price point, and I’ll just skip the game because of the cost.  I’m just hoping for a release to be set, ya know, on my birthday sounds good! Dec 4th..  Well, now is time to move forward..  I still have some work to do on CashFlo, but that’s almost done as well, it’s just a few minor AI pieces to work out, and then thats another title out the door for testing.. It’s crazy in what, 15 months I’ll have put out 4 titles? It makes a difference when you see a lifting of the financial burden from doing this. Even as a hobby, it has a pretty high financial investment even when your doing everything yourself, and when there is no return, you slow down a lot..  So next up on my agenda, are 2 different projects, the way I work, I get bored.. So 2 projects will allow me to jump back and forth and hopefully reduce the days that I just don’t wanna work on it, because I’m bored or burning out on working on the same thing day after day..  First, is a clone of a board game out there.. Haven’t on a title for it yet, but it’s a simple tile based game, laying your tiles down for points and seeing who can score the most.. Some of the potential titles:   Mine & Dine Gremlins Grotto Dwarf Delve Crystal Caverns Crystal Crunchers Crystal Carvers Something OPanico     The second title, Opanico is a new card game loosely based on another game called Blink.. I was going to do a recreation or Blink, then I just started wandering, and well it turned into it’s own whole game, so.. I have the rules all written out, should be a very fast paced game based on matching colors, shape or numbers, along with the panic.. you’re timed on your turn, and if someone else looks like they might win, well you can ruin their day with a panic, and shuffle everyones cards together, and re-deal…  So that’s what I’m up to.. Gotta a preference on names for the unknown above? Join us on Discord and talk about it!   Join us on discord to discuss! https://discord.gg/Aw2pZDq

Well, I think we finally have a final product, at least until I ship it off to the beta team and they start making a giant freaking list of bugs.. But that’s ok! There were definitely a lot of issues with this, and it’s not my coding or anything, it’s the low end hardware of the target platform. So in the game, there are 12 different cribbage boards, each one is composed of 5-600 GameObjects.. Nothing major at all there.. I was loading those into an array that the game would then instantiate the board it needed for that game.. Well apparently the IGT hardware can’t handle that.. It worked on every device I deployed it too, so I thought, ok, lets kick this over to the table and test it! And the only thing it did was crash. And of course, Logcat showed NOTHING of value whatsoever.. Basically it just spewed nonsense that didn’t give me any direction to look. After spending hours and hours trying to rebuild scenes, and rewriting scripts, and stripping everything down to it’s most basic pieces, even at one point removing everything except the images.. no code, no animation, no sound, no voice.. Finally I stumbled on the gameboards.. Figured ok, gotta be memory, removed half of the boards from the array NOT even instantiated objects, and sure enough it starts working.. Sadly I had already completely redesigned the title scene and stripped out the player selection and joining into its own separate scene (which I may put back to the way it used to be)..  Either way, the damn thing works properly now. Stuck the board prefabs in the resources folder, and loading the prefab from resources at runtime, so as not to hurt the tables tiny little memory feelings.. It runs great now, 45+ fps on average which is fine.. 1 or 2 tiny things to wrap up and do all the marketing pieces for, and I can ship it off. Definitely not going to write an entire game again without testing on the table every step of the way.. not again.. Still don’t understand why it cant handle 6000 objects, that’s a pretty minute number.. but hey.. It’s all good now!