Tired of waiting for the Jameson project, Captain Farbs (my in-game alter ego) decided to make his own game. I (or rather, he) present(s) to you: Captain Foraxian.

Happy new year everyone!

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Farbs

You’ve seen these books, surely. They’re published every gift-swapping season, and they nicely catalogue 1001 somethings that you must something before you die. This year they’re listing videogames, and so far I’ve found it a rather fun read – Page 842 in particular. You can probably guess why.

With Captain Jameson release slipping rapidly towards 2011 I decided to finish some auxillary features, just so I can release something before the year passes. To that end I’ve updated the Captain Forever website, rearranging the menu and adding new community, statistics, and links pages. If know of more links I should add to the links page then let me know. If you’d like the forums to be more than a placeholder stub then you’ll need to be a little patient. Sorry.

It’s invigorating uploading a few changes and releasing something live on teh interwebs. I know the mantra reads “Release early, release often”, but Captain Jameson simply isn’t structured that way. Not yet anyway. More on that later.

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I want one.

I took a little extra time this week to work on Captain Jameson, knocking out some of the auxillary features required for other people to enjoy it. Right now all the game mechanics are in and I can wander among them for hours, but I fear anyone not familiar with the game won’t find their way through its morass of vestigial features and undocumented systems. I need to prune back the weeds and lay some paving stones. A December release is looking plausible but I can’t honestly guarantee it, unfortunately.

In other Captain Forever news, I spoke at length about Captain Jameson and other things with Travis Boisvenue who then transcribed the conversation and published it here. You’ll find the page peppered with new Jameson screenshots, and marked by my apparent need to say “kind of”, “sort of”, and “just” in almost every sentence.

Captain Forever is also enjoying a little gallery time at InnerSpace, an exhibition in Melbourne curated by Christian McCrea. If you’re nearby please pop in, then let me know if the setup is as amazing as it looks in the photo.

Right. Now I’m off to code a cloud-based savegame system so you lot can log in to Captain Jameson from any browser.

<3 Farbs