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Eight Mini Shogi Reviews. Mixed, so Fixed!

http://www.xenoclone.com/game_minishogi.html, a shrunken Japanese chess game, has been out in the wild for a little over a month now. The reviews started rolling in a couple week...

Author Chris Jorgensen Date 12/19/2008 (10:43 am) Comment 2 comments

Mini Shogi Released

I've just "released" my third game off my http://www.xenoclone.com/game_minishogi.html, Mini Shogi. It's my first attempt to take an existing game of mine ([url=http://www.xenoclone...

Author Chris Jorgensen Date 11/10/2008 (3:43 pm) Comment 4 comments

3D "Mode 7" Racing in TGB (Vid-Pics)

You know what I love? 16-bit era games. Specifically, the platformers and "mode 7" racers are close to my heart. A while back I set out to figure out how to mimic something like Mario Kart or F-Zero (...

Author Chris Jorgensen Date 09/07/2008 (4:42 pm) Comment 16 comments

Fifteen Xeno Sola Reviews! Oh, the Humanity!

Howdy folks.... howdy, howdy, howdy.... One June 4th, 2008 I did something that I'd never done before. I put up for sale on my website my first indie game. Huzzah! That game was Xeno Sola... a qui...

Author Chris Jorgensen Date 07/22/2008 (5:47 pm) Comment 9 comments

Xeno Sola Full-Featured Beta!

Hey there GG'ers. I've got a beta available for my Carcassonne-style game, Xeno Sola. I'd love it if you could check it out and tell me what you think! [url=http://www.xenoclone.com/images/xs_p...

Author Chris Jorgensen Date 05/16/2008 (9:40 am) Comment 11 comments

Look Out, Carcassonne Lovers!

Inspiration struck me a little over two weeks ago. My wife and I were playing Carcassonne, one of our favorites, on our Xbox 360. It was a promotional free download a while back. We'd never heard of i...

Author Chris Jorgensen Date 04/16/2008 (1:34 pm) Comment 7 comments

Mini Chess Beta 2.0

Mini Chess Beta 1.0 Expires on the 16th. But the feedback and responses have been very good! So I thought I'd go ahead and upload a Beta 2.0 for people to try out and give me their thoughts. [b]Upd...

Author Chris Jorgensen Date 03/14/2008 (1:39 pm) Comment 3 comments

Download and Play Mini Chess!

Mini chess is here! Features: * Plays three different mini chess variants: western chess, makruk, and shatranj * Challenging AI that has 5 difficulty settings * Capacity to handle multiple th...

Author Chris Jorgensen Date 03/10/2008 (1:33 pm) Comment 2 comments

Reclaiming my name... and Mini-Chess!

Taking my name back Over seven years ago, I registered http://www.xenoclone.com. I thought it was the perfect oxymoron to describe myself and my projects. I used the...

Author Chris Jorgensen Date 10/29/2007 (3:10 pm) Comment 3 comments

Xeno Versus Beta: Now Available to All :)

Howdy folks. I think this is the first time that I've blogged twice in a month.* But these are important times! I'm just at that point where I need feedback, dang it. I'm calling the Yahoo group idea ...

Author Chris Jorgensen Date 09/26/2007 (3:37 pm) Comment 4 comments

Xeno Versus: Public Beta Available

At long last, I've got the first Xeno Versus public beta out and online. The development snapshot is up now. This beta is available about a month later than I'd hoped, but the late alpha testin...

Author Chris Jorgensen Date 09/20/2007 (11:18 am) Comment 1 comments

Xeno Versus:Space Melee Vids/Pics...

Hey, an update! First of all, I didn't think it would be this many months since my last post. For some reason, I thought a couple terms of full-time electrical engineering grad school would be "eas...

Author Chris Jorgensen Date 06/28/2007 (12:59 pm) Comment 6 comments

Xeno Versus: Progress! Horrible Progress!

I believe the last time I posted was sometime in October. The time for a status update is now. "Xeno Versus", my Spacewar!/Star Control: Super Melee clone is moving along well. Progress ...

Author Chris Jorgensen Date 01/11/2007 (12:04 am) Comment 6 comments

Xeno Versus: 2D Space Combat -- Early Screens

Well, I promised I would put some screenshots up last time (instead of more splash screens) and today I've finally gotten around to doing that. This game is very far from completion, but I thought I'd...

Author Chris Jorgensen Date 10/10/2006 (9:02 am) Comment 14 comments

Progress on the Space Melee

Seeing as how I haven't written anything here in a long while, I thought I'd blog it up a bit. No, no screenshots yet, I'm afraid. (Though I think enough will be complete for some shots soon.) I do, ...

Author Chris Jorgensen Date 09/13/2006 (3:55 pm) Comment 6 comments

Embarking on my first Torque2D project

I have been interested in programming games for a long time. In fact, I've even attempted a number of them with varying degrees of success. Right before I purchased Torque, I was attempting to write a...

Author Chris Jorgensen Date 06/05/2006 (12:37 pm) Comment 1 comments

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