Five Hundred / May 21, 2024

Five Hundred – Launching this week!

Five Hundred – Steam Release It’s been a few hundred hours of work, a whole lot of testing, a huge amount of reading of the Steamworks API – but Five Hundred – Steam Edition – is coming this week! Screenshots New Features As previously discussed, the Steam Edition includes a very large amount of new

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Five Hundred / February 11, 2024

Five Hundred is coming to Steam!

Believe it or not, I’ve been quietly working away on my Five Hundred game – and I’m now happy to announce, it’s coming to Steam! If you have a Steam account, you can wishlist it now to be notified when it goes live! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2824200/Five_Hundred/ At this point, long time players will likely be thinking “Steam?

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Five Hundred / January 17, 2019

Help me! Five Hundred AI

Since releasing the Paradice Five Hundred game all those years ago, one of the most consistent pieces of feedback I receive is that the AI partners and opponents don’t play optimally. This.. is very likely true. I’m limited in that I can only design a computer player that plays as well as I know how

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Five Hundred / January 25, 2015

Paradice Five Hundred – Version 1.20 released!

It’s finally ready! There was some scope changes involved in this version, which is why it’s taken much longer than expected, but here it is! Key new features in this version: Achievements! Over 20 specific in-game achievements to unlock Assisted check for new versions/update process Support for fullscreen (and windowed fullscreen) display modes Three different

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Five Hundred / December 29, 2014

New version of Five Hundred… almost!

Well it’s been a year between major updates (I seem to get the most time to work on this over Christmas/new years), but a new version of the Five Hundred is almost ready and will be released in the next few days. I have been busy and have added quite a few new features, though!

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Five Hundred / January 19, 2014

Five Hundred – Version 1.0 now released!

After a delay of way longer than expected, I am happy to announce that the redesigned Five Hundred game V1.00 is now available! I had hoped to have this done several months ago, but I kept getting sidetracked into adding extra features. Some of the new things you can see in this game: User customisable

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Code / June 6, 2013

Five Hundred redesign in development

Update: Version 1.00 now available – get it from this link! Wow, far, far too long between posts! Icefall development is currently on hold for a little while as… the problem is… I’m not finding it as fun to play as it should be. So I think I need to take a break and focus on

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