- Flick's Board Game Bazaar guild has been without a BYOND membership for a while and is no longer accepting games. The guild offered a decent stopgap while BYOND Casual held games purloined from BYOND Strategy. However, those games can now be double listed. I've removed the BGB Associates link. I may add it back if Flick is interested in running the guild again.
- IainPeregrine's Game in a Day 2009 event has ended. (Acebloke kept a journal of his entry's progress for those who are interested.) Results are expected within a couple weeks. I hesitate to add entries from these events to the guild without knowing they'll be updated, but some strategy games were created. For instance, Jp offered a turn-based tactical game featuring robots under the unfortunate name, Gears of War, and D4RK3 54B3R released the source to an RTS called Empyrean War.
- Acebloke announced that he may soon be offering updates for multiple games. His abstract boardgame, Exploder, could gain automatic Elo rankings. His Civilization-inspired conquest, Wargames 2, could get the update that he keeps promising. His strategy RPG, Joshtan1, could get more than a demo. His chess variation, Law of the Board, could be getting an interface update... Non-strategy games are candidates for updates as well, but you can read his post for those. ;)
- Lodowy Wilk is still looking for an artist to help with a turn-based strategy game influenced by Heroes of Might and Magic.
- Redbutton closed his poll a day before I could send Tech Tree readers to vote for his RTS option. He's now creating some sort of single-player mystery game instead. Curses!
- Crispy/Inventive Dingo has changed his BYOND blog title from "Stop Making Games" to "Whatever you do, make it awesome." I don't think he ever explained what the first title meant so let's just pretend he's a vile incarnation of discouragement that we vanquished. ;)
- I updated my daemonic wargame of adaptable units, Flesh and Drone, with sounds and more. Sound updates for my bot-crasher, Gears & Peers, and my abstract dungeon crawler, GrimTunnel, are likely next.
Flesh and Drone should meet the guild's guidelines to be featured. (Gears & Peers will likely be in the same boat soon.) However, my guildmaster position makes me hesitate to do so. In the past, I've tried to make due with swapping out an outdated game of mine, but I currently offer support for all of my featured games. A thumbs-up from another source on BYOND would be appreciated.
Congratulations to Alex Zalben of Comic Book Club for getting his Marvel (Disney?) comic printed.
I have not posted an episode of The Dog Face Show in ages simply because there have not been any. However, some lost footage was recently posted.
Robert Florence posted another episode of DowntimeTown and this time it was short enough to fit on YouTube. There's a bit of naughty language at the end so consider yourself warned. ZOO AAA ZOO!
Got news? The end is near. Someone actually suggested BYOND Strategy games in a forum thread!
