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Slowly but surely

Just a quick progress update. I am slowly but surely making progress on my next casual game. I’ve seeded it out to a couple of beta groups, but not yet to everyone who asked to be in the beta. I plan to use most of the folks who asked to be in the beta, but I want to break it into stages, so that there’s ‘fresh eyes’ looking at the game every week or two.

I’m definitely taking longer on this game than I did on my last one (Bonnie’s Bookstore). Perhaps I have the second system problem going on – I really want this one to be as perfect as possible. We’ll see. The beta testers so far have been quite positive, and that’s encouraging.

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2 Responses to “Slowly but surely”

  1. Humbaba Says:
    September 13th, 2006 at 2:12 pm

    Wow, that wikipedia article was truly terrible.

  2. Phil Steinmeyer Says:
    September 13th, 2006 at 3:38 pm

    Yeah, not the best, but easy for me to find. In a nutshell, whereas most engineering types are willing to make reasonable compromises to get a first system up and out the door, they often shoot for perfection with the ‘second system’, causing it to take far too long or never be completed at all, oftentimes for architectural benefits that are questionable at best.

    Yeah, I’ve probably got a touch of that with my next game…

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