The test was a great success. We played 17 games in a couple of hours, both large and small sizes. The game is a blast, even when I was playing only against remote players. (mrmorse was the only person to show up at HQ, about an hour into it.) There's a lot about playing online over a text-and-graphic interface that's different about playing in person, ( Read more... )

Gamut v0.3.7 is out. As usual, go to http://volity.net and click the shiny blue button to get it.

Changes, according to radiotelescope• Added a "nicknames" field to the Seat object you get in the ECMAScript ( Read more... )

Having caught someone's interest within, I submitted a level-two application to one of the angel groups yesterday. If we're just as good as everyone else who got a form to fill in, our chances of being invited to give a presentation are maybe 15 percent. I like to think our pitch is better than everyone else's, but it's a variable completely ( Read more... )

Feeling lazy, so here is excerpts from stuff I posted to the Volity betatest list ( Read more... )

I am writing the user manual for Gamut. It will be good. You will like it.

I know I'm on the right track in my work when I feel full of existential dread. No joke. It's been true for years, and in areas of my life outside of Volity: When I hit upon something I instinctively know I should do right now, I feel overcome with a sense of personal ( Read more... )

It's fun to see Gamut's Google rank creep upwards. Also fun to see all the other Gamuts on the Web.

This Gamut has to do with game theory, and beyond that I cannot tell you, because that Visio graph on its front page also doubles as a magical sleep-inducing glyph. This Gamut is a CMU grad student's project from the late 1990s, and actually does ( Read more... )

Someone made a Gamut page at Softpedia. (Not that I had heard of this website before, but tsall good.) They went through the trouble of taking their own screenshots instead of ripping off the perfectly good ones I made for Gamut's page on volity.org. Whoever it was just sat alone at various game tables and shouted the name of their website in all ( Read more... )

Gamut 0.3.4 is out. The only real difference between this and the last release involves its Mac version; karlvonl noticed that the Java JRE that Apple has started uploading to its Mac OS X users caused Gamut to flow text up instead of down. Um... OK. My fix was to tweak the Mac package's Info.plist metadata file so that it uses the latest Java 1.4 ( Read more... )

Gamut 0.3.3 is out. Has sexy new icon Zarf made based on the logos that Rob designed for us. (But it is not the logo. You will have to download it to see it, hmm?) Also has a Game Finder window that auto-refreshes, finally ( Read more... )