Getting into the swing of things

We have been running gamepixies for nearly two years now. There was very little progress in the beginning - it took a few months to produce our first version of Set! - and it was quite a while after that that we finally came up with a name. There were various reasons for this, like deciding on how the clients were going to work and how the server was going to work, which languages we were going to use (and there was a lot of disagreement on that front), but mostly we just not getting any time to code because we were cycling across Europe at the time.

Thankfully we did settle down, about 6 months ago, and we have been able to do much more work since. A lot of this has been behind the scenes improvements, such as switching our graphics to a persistent document model (which is why the games room has an SVG mode) and rewriting the servers in the same language that we use on the client. But there have been some very visible additions such as the new games and even an AI.

It finally looks like this work is really paying off, we are seeing more people visit the site, and adding new content is getting much easier. So much so that we can now announce a new game, "Through the Desert", which is exciting for us not only because it is one of our favourite board games, but also because we started work on it less than a week ago.

May there be many more to come.