12.10.06
Amoebax: Free Puyo Puyo like game.
Yes, I know that I haven’t updated this blog lately. Sorry.
Now, some of you have asked me if I’m going to continue development of ePDFView. Well, yes I plan to continue with it, it’s just that I don’t have too much time. And I’ve been spending most of my free time with a project I’m doing with a group of friends: Amoebax.
Why spending time making a game instead of a productive application? Well, developing a PDF viewer is not all fun :-). Now in all seriousness, it’s the first time that I had the opportunity of making a game with some of my friends, something I wanted to do since I was a child. I couldn’t skip this one!
Then, why such a simple game like a Puyo Puyo™ clone instead of a hardcore überl33t MMORPG? For two reasons: First, I don’t play MMORPG’s and second we lack the skills to something like this. It’s not my first game, but it’s the first time I work with a group. So, everything can go wrong 
For those that don’t know what Puyo Puyo™ is, it’s a tetris-like game where the objective is to fill the opponents grids by sending garbage. The garbage is generated when you make chains of same coloured blob creatures. You can find a much better description at the Wikipedia.
So, why I didn’t tell a thing until now? I didn’t want to make an anouncement of “my new project” until I was sure that we could make something or it could be another dead project on the net, like it was the case with eGeki (no, ePDFView is not a dead project.) So I awaited until we reached some milestone. And we did today: we released version 0.1.0!
No, it’s not yet feature complete, and perhaps we could wait a little longer and offer a version more “challenging”. But we decided to release when the “training mode” was complete, because since I published a video on YouTube.com last sunday there had been some interest about our project in GP2X forums. Perfect time for a release!
Nothing more today. I hope to update this blog more often from now on 