I've gotten a lot of people asking me what's going on lately.  Things seem quiet!  Do I still live?

Mostly, yes.  Of course the Month of October was a big vacation month for me.  Spent time in Bali, meet my Girlfriends parents, things like that.  But for those following on Twitter, I was working on GD and GDS from the beach even then!

As many of you know, I'm also the President and CEO of Simutronics Corp and we are in the last quarter of a big develop project.  Things are getting intense.  It's a Facebook game, but one that's more our style than the typical FB fare.  Some have said this is insanity since all FB players like is clicking on plots of land on farms or ordering hits on people.  Maybe, but I also remember when people said geoDefense was too hardcore for the iPhone crowd. :)

geoDefense Updates!

Don't worry, there is still much going on.  Both GDS and GD are getting updates.  Bug fixes and the latest OpenFeint (and all the features therein).  I'm also adding in-app pruchasing of level packs to both.  In the case of Swarm, we are finishing up the first level pack now which has 10 all new levels in it (5 med / 5 hard).  From time to time I plan on free new levels in updates too, but this system lets me compensate my level builders and, if all works out, increase the number of new levels that can be created.

I hope to wrap this up this month.

Need More Ham!

In other news, while I was away, the forums here got slammed by spam bots.  (sigh)  I cleaned up a lot of it, but more importantly I've invested in some more powerful spam-fighting tech.  So far it has worked (fingers crosssed).

You can see the results of it working here:

New Product: geoSpark!

Most of my CTG time has been spent on a new title: geoSpark.  This game is being done in collaboration with Imangi Studios.  I've mentieond it a few times before.  Right now we're in the final phases of polishing it up.  The gameplay is done and we're getting the menus and other widgets in there.  I'll post more about this as soon as I submit!