To the right........ Decktet and an old dice one!  

Enjoy!

While we're at it, my test project for graphic drawing based on the oldie 'Choice'...

I need to clear this by the author, but at least for my own personal programming fix, it was just right.  

This was built with VB.Net and works with XP and 2000... Screenshot below this one is from Mono 1.9.1 in Ubuntu in a Sun Virtual Box.  

And now the Linux....

Overall, looks pretty good.  Button text/alignment stuff, but not bad.  If it is okayed by the Decktet creator, a link will be placed on the right side to grab your own copy.

EDIT:  Forgot to mention... the extended cards can be selected, as well as rules for scoring diagonally and allowing the variant to allow flushes to be scored as well.

An old dice game by Steve Jackson.  I've tinkered with it for a while and played with the Java applet version of it as well.  I figured I'd do a quick .Net version of it and I should have it up within a week or so.  I'm tinkering with a library to encompass all my 2D drawing stuff, and this was a trial project for that.

The game, for those interested, can be found here.

Latest version is up after a few night time hacks.  We've got skins and we've got house rules!  All I have to do is fix the boring stuff like arrows not showing up in the right place and other dumb things like that and I'll be set!

Another side project I've been tinkering with involves creating something like http://www.gnome.org/projects/tomboy/

Basically, it's a notetaking application for Gnome which amazingly does not have a Windows port.  Under the simulator, it works great... but I didn't want to have to open up Virtual Box to try this out.  So, over the last couple of nights I used their basic interface to create my own take on it.

The latest release had a bug with Tribal War not letting you easily go on after selecting regions.  Seems to have been expecting one more region than what it was fessing up to.

Patch is here - simply unzip and replace the .exe.  This will only work if you have downloaded PocketCiv since 1AM EST last night.  :-)

Otherwise, the installers on the links to the right will lead you to all the goodness of the current version.

After about a week and a half of virtual silence, I have another release of PocketCiv ready for consumption.  This one is a slight version change because I moved the maps and save games to subfolders on the install.  If you have existing games, you can move them there.  All maps and save files you may have created already will work in this release.

The fixes are:

0.4.2.0
    - Fixed Astronomy again.
    - Fixed unhandled part of Diplomacy event involving trade with an
      established partner.
    - Fixed unhandled part of Bandit event where the selected region
      drawn does not border a desert.  Narrative now appears explaining
      this.
    - Added option to see tips or not in menu.
    - Added further history.
    - Added menu option to see history from main screen.
    - Added folders for save files, maps and logs in main application directory.
    - Fixed error where sea-bordering regions were not checking as thoroughly
      as they should have been.
    - Added bigger and better God screen so I can debug better.
    - Fixed bug where negative numbers weren't saving correctly.  This affected
      game saves.
    - Fixed bug where Trading Partners were saved, but not loaded.
    - Fixed Mining dialog verbage.
    - Fixed bug where you could acquire an advance from the same city more than
      once in a round.
    - Fixed bug where if you had a free city AV, the game would still make you
      pick a region.

 There are still some known issues, but this should knock out a couple rather nasty bugs that snuck in when I was moving a lot of the stuff out of dialogs.  Still investigating.

If you have a bug or issue, please email me or post to this blog or at Board Game Geek.  

Thanks!

J.