Thinking too hard.

Well I’ve been doing a lot of work on the game last night and I’ve had a lot re-thinking to do. I’m going to change the types of game you can download. I’m going to do three editions.

1. Basic – This will basically be free apart from the download fee. It will have single player, hot seat, Bluetooth duelling, two themes and language support for English, French and German.

2. Standard – This will have the above and will be able to play against Basic Players. In addition there are two more themes, GPRS duelling, Bluetooth & GPRS messaging and free updates. Small fee will be charged for the database functionality. Thinking about £5 a year.

3. Advanced – In addition to the standard package. This will have two extra duel types, different types of playing pieces and downloadable themes. The fee will be slightly larger (maybe £10) for the advanced version.

At the moment I’m focusing on the basic version, which will be used as a building block for the others. However, I am evaluating SQL SERVER 2000 and .NET for the backend components for the standard game. Hopefully a demonstration of the basic version will be enough to convince backers that this game could be a seller.

1. Display Extraction - Started, about 50% done.
2. Examine the functionality of the standard Bluetooth functions.
3. The Array list object for J2ME – Bugs have been found in the replacement to the Arraylist object. Erk!
4. Basic Website design started is still on hold because I’m still knackered.
5. Started work on the first tier of menu screens on the mobile version.
6. Designing Multi-language functionality – 20%