Thanks for the Pop Pies 2 feedback. I went live with the thing and started uploading it to the major game portals in the hopes that it'll be co-opted by the smaller ones. Since the game runs ads before it starts, the key is to get it on every place you can find.

A couple of my favorites are MindJolt (because they have a facebook app that can get your game a squillion hits if people like to challenge each other) and Albino Black Sheep (because they actually do respect peoples' rights to the material they post).


If you wanna get in on the grassroots effort towards spreading this thing far and wide, the actual SWF is being hosted at http://games.mochiads.com/c/g/pop-pies-2/poppies2.swf. Feel free to upload it somewhere, although it's better form to just have the site link to that file if available. That way if I find a bug and post an update, they'll get the fix automatically.

Or if you have a game site that you particularly like, post a link to it in the comments and I'll see about getting it uploaded there. Pop Pies 1 is up to 13 million hits, so it has some catching up to do, but it might happen :)

Big thanks.


And it looks like the next round of gamedev.net books are ready to ship. I haven't gotten the new ones from the publisher yet, but I expect to see 'em any minute now. I just got cover-art for the fourth book (Advanced Programming), and it's sort of a lime green.

And I'm gonna be putting together some kind of book giveaway for all of the extra copies I get from the publisher. Not sure exactly what the parameters will be, but there'll be opportunity for free books.