The final chapter should be ready shortly.

I’ve also been working hard on creating a new website for Tagged Software, and will hopefully have a rough draft of it ready in a few weeks time. Alongside the first information of our second game!

I’ll reveal more details as time goes on.

I’m keeping Gladiator Trails II at the $14.95 price point, I figure with all the economy gloom and doom it’s the least I can do. People still need entertainment and so I hope to ensure money isn’t a big factor in preventing that. I’ve been considering a release of the game’s source code, this doesn’t mean the game itself will become free though. People would be free to modify and distribute new builds if they desired, and it may be a good starting point for those new to programming in revolution. More news to come in the following weeks.

Development of the new game has been on hold until I’m able to buy a new mac, which should be by the end of the month. I’m switching development environments, moving to a new engine for the game. All is not lost as I plan to use the old code for the game’s editor and save myself a few months of re-doing old work in the new engine.

The big news is that for the month of August Gladiator Trials II’s price has been slashed from $24.95 to $14.95, a saving of $10! So for those that still haven’t purchased the game I think now is a great time to do it. I hope to have some better news in the next few weeks, including at least one new chapter in the making of series.

Onto more important news, the next chapter of the making of Gladiator Trails II will be ready for release next week. The chapter will focus on moving from the planned expansion to the beginnings of Gladiator Trials II. 

It’s barely a design document mind you, missing a few hundred pages to really be used to design a complete game. But it gives you an idea of what I had in mind and how the game would have played. There’s alot of elements that made it into GTII, and alot more that didn’t. It’s only 15 pages, so go ahead and read it

For those that miss the link, here it is. It’s getting close to the end of the series, which means it’s getting closer to the announcement of the next game. I’ll let you know that it wasn’t easy deciding on the follow-up to Gladiator Trials II, and I have gone through several games before finally settling on one. But let’s leave all that to the last chapter Enjoy.

The making of GTII is now at the half-way mark, I will try to release the rest of the chapters, on a weekly basis. Which should bring the complete history of the game online by early July. The last chapter will officially announce the next game by Tagged Software, which is long overdue

I released a few updates to the Mac version of GTII over the last week and will prepare and release the windows update shortly.

I’ve also been busy the past few weeks working on a new game, everything is going great and I expect to announce what it is in the coming weeks. For now, enjoy the next chapter in the GTII making of.

I officially released the version 1.2.2 update for Gladiator Trials II today, it fixes a bug in the arena messaging code which caused scenario 4 to freeze at certain key points. The mac version has had a bit of polish done to the DMG file, I added an image to the background of the folder which serves to inform users that they need to copy the game to their hard drive before playing.

I’ll be compiling the latest version of Gladiator Trials II, 1.2.2, and releasing that shortly to save new users from downloading a patch. It fixes a bug found in scenario 4 which caused the game to freeze at the arena.

I’ll be posting up the 3rd chapter of the making of GTII this weekend.