I've implemented more stuff into Tales of Akash 10. The latest addition is the feature from the previous game which was intended for multiplayer really, and that was a dynamic encounter health. How it works is that there is a piece of code that takes the number of accounts and multiplies it by an integer. That is the encounter total health. I must admit it's not 100% perfect as servers could have several old accounts, making the encounter impossible to defeat. However, I solv

The game development is nearing completion. I must say I'm impressed the game works as well as it now does as I got some bugs fixed and whatnot. I also revamped the graphics a bit for a darker feel. What I really wanted was a shader or at least a vignette in the dungeon graphics. Unfortunately due to the nature of the graphics "engine" it's not possible and cropping the thing with GIMP without "Crop to HTML" grid is very difficult. So last night the bands kept playing until 1

The development of Tales of Akash 10 started off quite nicely. I wasn't really going to program a sequel but something in me kept going. Going commercial with Tales of Akash 9 v. 1.0.3 was a major leap, as now I feel obliged to continue creating content for the game project. I might still release a free version for testing and offer a support pack with extras. Currently the game is in ver. 1.1.0 but there hasn't been any sales. Maybe people are just happy playing the free ver

So next year in July I think will mark 20 years in the music production for me. As you may imagine it has been quite a ride. My home studio ca. 2009 This is what my studio looked like when I was in the military. A lot has changed since, mainly with technological advances but on the left is my production desk. I'll try to recall some of the gear I had back then : Fostex PM01 mk2 studio monitors An Intel Q6600 Quad-Core 2,4GHz PC with 4GB RAM In the rack on the floor there was

It's been roughly 20 years since I first bought my first DJ gear. I wrote a rather long-ish Facebook status update on this in which I also listed most of the places I've played in, asking my followers, friends and promoters etc for pictures and memories for my autobiography I've been writing for the last few months or so. Well, it's a rather long story but I'll try to explain it here. I was big into MMORPG in my teens. The server was in a funk and people were only posting on

I woke up this morning(?) at around 1am as I couldn't get any sleep. Then I had some coffee and a cigarette and decided to open my laptop to check what's going on here and whatnot. I was quite worried how people would react to the commercial release of my game Tales of Akash 9 (there's still a patch/addon in the works) but I haven't gotten around to actually fixing the bugs. After doing quite a lot of coding work I decided to reward myself and goof around in my sequencer for

So, Tales of Akash 9 finally went commercial. I should've seen this coming, it was only a matter of time. Little did I know when I started writing it with a Notepad and testing the engine in a browser that one day I'd be writing code in Visual Studio using Python and actually selling the finished product. People did show some interest in it, but so far I haven't sold a single copy despite my (rather amateurish) marketing attempts. Maybe I'll toss some money into Facebook Ads

There are some technical quirks in the web store. I'm trying to fix them, right about now you can view the individual releases if you have a direct link. Otherwise, the front page doesn't seem to work. It could take something like 5 business days for the payments to flow. To celebrate this I released my debut drum'n'bass album "Akash" in CD quality to test the webstore. I'm not 100% sure of what takes place behind the curtains but I'm fairly confident it's the legacy code use

I woke up at around 2:20am to a strange feeling. I saw the most disturbing dream ever, I won't go in depth but it was very confusing. I saw this as a sign as I had written a blog post earlier about relaunching the webstore. So I ditched my free plan, and as the blog posts have been quite bare (I ran out of server space) with no media other than embedded Soundcloud links so I thought I'd kick the whole shop thing going again and get some server space in the process. Well, this

I've been working on fixing bugs and whatnot in post. So far I did 2 updates so the game is in ver. 1.0.2 as of now. I haven't recieved any kind of feedback other than what was put in reddit or FB groups. I thought this was a good sign, and that some people actually enjoyed the game (well, both of them). I noticed the PvP is somewhat unbalanced in terms of the victim being either a one-shot or both the attacker and the victim getting killed. The goal was to make players think