Nick Lee is a highly skilled game artist, currently located in London, working on titles such as Lego Knight’s Kingdom, Star Wars: Jedi Knights, Harry Potter, Sims Bustin Out, Jurassic Park, 1945, Rainbow Islands, Sims2, JLH: The Flash, Fast&Furious, Metal Slug, Age of Empires 3, Transformers:G1 Awakening, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and Rockmania.

Travis Bowling, from Ohio, is a game enthusiast, mission and map designer and long-term player of Age of Conquest. He is the current administrator for Age of Conquest as well as the official game forums. He has created some of the maps for Age of Conquest as well as all the missions for Tropical Stormfront.

The three of us are working on the next installment of Tropical Stormfront, i.e. Desert Stormfront. We will definitely talk about Desert Stormfront, of course Age of Conquest, plus anything else related to games.

RTSGuru

RTSGuru has kindly reviewed Tropical Stormfront for Android! RTSGuru is a site dedicated to real-time strategy games.

Tropical Stormfront has received a review score of 8/10. Please visit their website to read the review:

• Tropical Stormfront Review by RTSGuru

PlayAndroid.com

I have been interviewed by Frederik Schrader of PlayAndroid.com. Please visit their web page for the 10 interview questions I have been asked:

• Developer Interview: 10 Questions for Christoph Aschwanden

• Vote for Age of Conquest

Best Board Game 2011: Age of Conquest

Blackman'N Robin

Jourdan Cameron from Blackman’N Robin has gone through the trouble and reviewed Tropical Stormfront.

Read the review:

• Blackman’N Robin: Tropical Stormfront Review

• Age of Conquest III Review (Desktop)

The Wargamer

• The Wargamer: Review for Age of Conquest III

The project is called the Atari Coldfire Project (ACP). Atari experts from hardware and software are putting together the next Atari computer called FireBee running on the ColdFire processor. The hardware is finished. The operating system and software is currently still being worked on. Visit the links below for imagery & video:

• Atari Coldfire Project
• FireBee on YouTube

Atari FireBee Desktop

http://sig.ageofconquest.com/universe1/sig/user/<username>.png

Replace <username> with your Age of Conquest username. For integration into a forum, you could use the following BB Code. The code links to the homepage of Age of Conquest:

[url=http://www.ageofconquest.com][img]http://sig.ageofconquest.com/universe1/sig/user/<username>.png[/img][/url]

Game Signature for noblemaster

Android Walker

If Japanese is your first language, Android Walker has a review of Age of Conquest LITE for Android on their site. Review and video are in Japanese for obvious reasons. There is both a game description plus a YouTube video:

• エイジオブコンクエストLITE
• Android Walker

More Information:

• Official Site for Quantum Gravity
• Want More? Concord C1 External Gravity

]]> http://blog.noblemaster.com/2010/07/20/wanted-concord-c1-quantum-gravity/feed/ 2 http://blog.noblemaster.com/2010/06/07/play-hydorah/ http://blog.noblemaster.com/2010/06/07/play-hydorah/#comments Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:17:28 +0000 noblemaster http://blog.noblemaster.com/?p=734 I am lately addicted to Hydorah. Hydorah is a free side-scrolling shooter. The game features great graphics and music and is quite a challenge to play.

If you fought the Bydo and shooted the Bacterians in the core, you are ready for the war against the evil god Hydorah. Choose the path to follow and fight planet by planet against hordes of meroptians.

Download & Information: http://www.locomalito.com/juegos_hydorah.php

Hydorah Screenshot

“I challenge you to port Oregon Trail!”

“Oregon Trail!!!!”

“Hey, you should port Oregon Trail to Android!”

It’s puzzling? Why me, I don’t own the rights to Oregon Trail? I wouldn’t mind doing it, but I am pretty sure Gameloft has their own developers to pull it off. Also, there are other games out there that I could port; how about those?

Search Queries for MultiplayerHub.com

Reference: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/multiplayerhub.com#

The world needs the leader of the biggest enterprise back in his office. Return to Microsoft and unite the industry…

If you like cribbage, definitely give the game a try. For the guys out there: the game also seems to be quite popular amongst the ladies!

Website: http://ecribbage.com

Winner's Podium for eCribbage

The Good:

1. Captivating! A must for strategy game enthusiasts.
2. The game allows managing everything from members of your court, diplomacy, military, economy, provinces to the empire as a whole.
3. Sophisticated diplomacy management make it both challenging and interesting to play.
4. Endless hours of entertainment, once you get the hang of it. It’s a bargain for $25.

The Bad:

1. The graphics look good enough, but the user interface is simply a pain to navigate. Clicking on provinces, military units and factions is difficult.
2. There should only be one zoom level for the map. You are either too close or too far away from the map. The overview map should have the various provinces colored.
3. Micromanagent: there should be an option set some of the features to auto. There is no fun in managing every single member of your court. Also, there isn’t much fun in managing your ruler’s character traits. There are too many lengthy messages boxes that force you to make a choice: “choose this button if you want to do A. Please note there is a 25% chance that your ruler receives the trait Illness and a 10% chance your Piety changes by -1.0 or a 50% that your mother leaves you and your father looses -20 prestige or…” (and that’s just the first button)
4. Accidentally clicking a message box. Every so often just the instant before you select a province, a message pops up and you select one of the buttons by accident. Especially annoying if you just declared war against a big empire.
5. Unclear relations between the various variables. It is difficult to manage your empire if you don’t know what all the various options do. Although the rollover texts provide some guidance many things are left unexplained.
6. Bugs and crashes…

The game is definitely worth playing. A streamlined version of it could make it an exceptional game. You can download the Crusader Kings through GamesGate. Get the Deus Vult edition for $25.

So, I finally received my Nexus One in the mail. Google is giving away a free phone to every finalist (N. American Conquest)  in the Android Developer Challenge. In other news, Google is also giving away a free phone for developers that have an application with rating 3.5 or higher in the Android Market. So, I am expecting to receive another phone in the mail anytime soon. It’s either going to be the Nexus One or the Droid by Motorola.

Anyhow, the Nexus One works great! The speed is amazing. It replaces the free HTC Tattoo that I received a while ago to port Age of Conquest to the smaller screen size. The Tattoo was quite a disappointment. It “runs” very slow. The touch screen isn’t working very well; to get things moving, you had to press down really hard.

If I indeed get another free Nexus One, what should I do with the 2nd phone?

The Texas Holdem Bonus Simulator is written in Java and can be run via Java Webstart. Use the game play URL below if you would like to give the game a try!

Game Play URL: http://www.aronsonhome.info/trip/poker/simulator.jnlp

• Free membership upgrade tournaments (April 15, July 15, October 15)
• The 3rd Aevum Obscurum Championship Tournament (September 4)
• The 2nd International AO Stein Tournament (May 1)

Join now to compete!

AO Stein Tournament banner. Feel free to distribute:

Appropriateness Score:

Violence 10/10
Language 10/10
Sexual Content/Nudity 10/10
Occult/Supernatural 9.5/10
Cultural/Moral/Ethical 9.5/10

Appropriateness Total: 49/50

For the detailed review visit:
http://www.ccgr.org/modules.php?name=MReviews&op=show&rid=810

“If you’re like me, this is actually a very congenial way to play; each day, you play another turn and get a little gaming fix, without having to spend hours at a time.”

Visit ManifestoGames: http://www.manifestogames.com/AevumObscurum

In other news: Announcing the first international AO Stein tournament. Start date and map to be determined at a later date.The prize is depicted to the left and will be awarded to the winner of the tournament! Stay tuned for further information …
Cheers m8

At the same time. “Aevum Obscurum Entertainment” will be known under “Noble Master” games.

The game has been listed at:
http://www.onekit.com/store/product/aevum_obscurum.html

- 36′124 Unique Visitors
- 10′140 Returning Visitors

Last month 12 Giga Byte of data has been transfered each from and to the game server. This includes logins, game, tournament, join, order submit etc. requests. I.e. it does not include download of the client or website access. Simple data transfer from and to the clients connected with the server.

Website access, download of executables and Java Web Start comes to 16 Giga Byte.

To total it up: 2×12 GB + 16 GB => 40 GB monthly transfer for December!

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Increased MySQL scalability to allow for “unlimited” multiplayer “real-time” gaming to be … More exiting news later!

The Story Behind Aevum Obscurum

On another note, clicks on Google Ads have generated $63.84 since the last 12 months. That’s about $5 per month. Last month (October) was $7.06.

Registered Players: 7314
Total Number of Logins: 99292
Total Active Users (5L): 993 (>= 5 logins)
Total Active Users (100L): 227 (>= 100 logins)
Total Active Users (500L): 39 (>= 500 logins)
Current Active Users (14d): 148 (active last 7 days / registration 14 days or earlier)
Current Active Users (6M): 26 (active last 7 days / registration 6 months or earlier)
Current Number of Active Games: 251
Paying Members: 0 (since 2.5.0)
Monthly Costs (Hosting + Other): $90

Other stats of interest? I got others, but I do not want to give out private player data.

Award

XCalibur has been declared the first tournament Champion! Congratulations. XCalibur has gracefully surrendered his prize which will go into a new tournament: “XCalibur Tournament”. The new tournament will start on December 19! It’s free to enter. The tournament prize is $50 – winner takes all and includes a certificate. The Europe Tournament 16 map will be used for game play.

The final standing (Players alive):

XCalibur 151
Vladimir 143
Azzab 137
HenriqueB 90
Hwiccee 84
Alopezme 40