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I'm not going to be bringing my Mac with me when I move, so I won't be making Mac versions of any more of our games. As a result, we're no longer going to offer any Mac games for sale on this site. Frankly, including Mac games did nothing except clutter up the website.

Also, the following games have been completely removed from the site: Battle Brain, Coin Planets, Coin World, all 3 Demon Star games, and Troll. At some point in the future these games will be replaced by others that more strongly complement the Orbital Cows Software game potfolio.

Rael: The Redemption and Kiki's Candyland have both been removed from the site. If they are ever worked it, it will be at some point in the distant future. The front page looks a little better on widescreen monitors.

Additionally, I added a cool game to the website: Eschalon Book I.

Lucky's Puzzle Carnival's price has been reduced to $9.99 permanently.

The company is being renamed from "Orbital Cows Entertainment" to "Orbital Cows Software". This change will likely have no effect upon anyone. A change is being made to the business structure, primarily to reduce paperwork during tax time.

RBI still doesn't have a playable demo yet. It will probably be quite some time before it does.

I updated the article Time for A Modern World. There's a new table, a minor correction, and some improvements to the text. Some unnecessary text is deleted. Mostly, the article is just organized a little bit better.

I've also updated the RBI design document and storyline quite often. Both documents are still in a very rough form, but they at least resemble what RBI will be like more than the did before.

Speaking about RBI, progress is still relatively slow. I seem to spend what little time I have to work on it rearranging code I've already written for the map editor. I don't think Eduardo's doing an artwork for it all right now, but there's not much point giving the state the game is in right now. It does, however, seem like I'm starting to pick up a little bit of momentum at taking care of the backlog of refactoring.

Oddly, I seem to spend time refactoring code that isn't of immediate interest than I do actually coding the game. This may be a bad thing, but I am accumulating quite a large library of reusable code.

Quite some time ago, I wrote an article that I forgot to post. Today, I updated it and realized I had never posted it. Without further ado, Algorithm Directory is now available.

I added the game Kudos Rock Legend and removed a number of free games that simply weren't that good. I also combined some of the game genres so that there are fewer buttons in the menu, and the links page only contains games now. The special bundle deal is mentioned in the descriptions for the games, rather than on the front page.

There's no demo for Rabbit Bureau of Investigation as of yet.

I've replaced our old forum with a new updated forum because the old one was buried in spam to the point where I couldn't do anything about it. It's my hope that this new forum won't have this problem. Unfortunately, the user data and posts from the old forum could not be saved.

Anyone who signs up for the new forum before the end of the year will be private messaged a discount count for 50% off our newest game: Lucky's Puzzle Carnival.

Ok, this is a minor one. I've updated the article World of Spells significantly, adding more spell effects, summaries for the spell effect types, and reorganizing a few things.

I also modified World of Magic slightly.

The impetus to these changes was adding these articles to the Simugraph Library, a wiki about developing video game RPGs. Comments about these articles caused me to update them.

Bugs and more bugs. I've been buried in bugs the entire time I've been working on the game. I've spent more time fixing the bugs than I have writing new code.

The demo for RBI (Rabbit Bureau of Investigation) is not being made publicly available as of yet. Progress is being made, but more for the map editor than for the actual game. In fact, progress is only being made on the map editor at this time, though that's about to change.

I just posted this to remind everyone that we're still alive. RBI is going to take a long time to develop, and no release date has been set yet. While nothing is finalized yet, we have a fairly good idea of what the game will look like upon completion.

Two new games have been added: Science Girls and Space Junk (a freeware Orbital Cows original). Also, Orbital Bricks (another freeware Orbital Cows original) has been updated to version 2.0.

New logos have been uploaded for Lucky's Puzzle Carnival and Nanotron.