Far be it for me to invite scorn and ridicule on our hard work in the form of Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor but let's face it, GalCiv has long since stopped being any sort of traditional "product".  We love working on it. If I didn't work at Stardock, I'd be modding it in my spare time.  But I do work at Stardock so that means I still get to mod it in my spare time but I have the source code.

That said, in this post can you list the 5 things you would ...

Tonight (4:28am so technically this morning) I'm hanging out on the GalCiv II forums between compiles.



The above is the issue editor for The Political Machine 2008.  In it, I must go through every conceivable issue, write a description and then put in the values.

The values on position are between -10 (strongly against) and positive 10 (strongly in favor). The other variable (new in this version) is how important the issue is which is on a scale from 1 to 10.

I also ha...

   We're in crunch mode and yet I have a lot of free time too. That's the nature of development in crunch mode - hurry up and wait. Right now, I'm waiting for some changes to the issues editor so that I can begin putting in new political issues for The Political Machine 2008.

Hard to believe that this UI was done with DesktopX 3.5. The game is going gold in about a month and there's a lot to do to get it ready.  We've got pre-orders from most of the major retailers so ...

Well today I've got a lot of coding and forum work to do.  We released Twilight of the Arnor and people seem happy. But I'm not convinced that all the final strings got in (i.e. tech descriptions).  And while we did release the info guide and a twilight manual, I want to keep updating them as well as hang out on the forums answering questions and helping.

Unfortunately, my middle right finger is swollen up.  As some of you know, I keep bees. I've got 6 honey bee hives this ye...