A new version of Linkage is available to test: http://www.rectorsquid.com/beta/linkage.msi This is version 3.15 or greater. It will get updated as I fix more bugs and tweak more features. Here are some recent changes, some of which might have already been released in previous versions: The control knobs…
Continue readingI think that there are at least a few people who want to know when I post about Linkage program updates or tutorials. Heck, you might even want to know when I post about others things. Now you can get notified by email when there is new awesomeness…
Continue readingI’m working on the Linkage program and I am having trouble solving a problem; I have three classes that need bases classes to simplify their definitions and construction. The classes can be described as Control Knobs, Connectors, and Links. In the code itself, things like drawing elements are…
Continue readingBarrage is a worker placement (euro) game where players compete to product power from hydroelectric power plants. In this review, I will describe my first impressions of the game starting with unboxing and finishing with me stopping a game against myself (me vs. me) at the end of…
Continue readingFor a little while last night, I worked on the Linkage program. I’m trying to report errors in mechanisms without marking every single element as broke. In the picture above, the inputs are the wrong length or on the wrong place and the mechanism binds. What I intend…
Continue readingFirst, I want to apologize for not taking pictures of the actual games. I usually end up posting some image I “borrowed” from the internet and it’s time I stopped doing that so you can see just how great or terrible my games can go. Pipeline is a…
Continue readingI played Tokyo Metro for the first time last night with two friends. I need writing practice so here’s my first impression of the game. Tokyo Metro is a worker placement game with some automated train movement and a stock-based economic feature. The game is played in rounds…
Continue readingI sometimes read Wil Wheaton’s blog. For anyone who reads my blog and somehow doesn’t know of Wil Wheaton, he’s an actor who was in the movie Stand By Me and later played Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation. He’s done other acting since then but…
Continue readingBack in about 2012, I started working for Westlake Software. It was a part-time side job porting an older Android app to the Windows phone. Wow was that a tough project for the first few weeks. Since then, I ported that Windows phone app to Windows, created a…
Continue readingThere are currently two ways to show links in the Linkage software: The link is drawn as a polygon using the outer-most connectors to define the shape, and drawn as a solid object with the connector circles giving the appearance of holes within a larger polygon with rounded…
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