I apologize yet again for the lack of updates, too – over in ye olde real life, I’m about to enter crunch mode for a school project we’re doing, and after that I am moving to a new apartment. There simply hasn’t been a lot of time for me to work on Seal Hunter, and to reiterate, I am very sorry for that. I definitely intend to push out the new updated master server code to provide such things as buddy lists and a chat function, but at this rate, it might take me a while. Two hours per day worth of free time just isn’t quite enough, sadly.

I will keep you updated on the host switch as soon as I begin moving things over.

Should you not have been accepted this time either, please accept my humblest apologies. I can’t accept all testers, since they’re almost all too many already!

And beta wise, things are progressing nicely, but y’know, that school thing. Busy. Yeah. I’ll see if I can give you non-beta people some goodies soon, though.

Happy hunting ’til next time!

The beta phase has now started, with a little over 40 testers being appointed for the time being. “Bugs coming at us like in Starship Troopers”, to quote a certain song.

With this in mind, I’d like to apologize to those people not brought in for the beta – I know it must be a real downer for you guys. I simply could not have taken all of you, though, as much as I had wanted to. I might still take in a few extra testers in a second batch, though, so all hope is not lost just yet!

If it’s of any consolation, though, here’s the Seal Hunter intro movie – even though that’ll probably act as even more of a teaser. (Watch it on YouTube for higher resolutiony goodness!)

Until next time.

Thus – let’s get this going.

In order to sign up, visit http://beta.sealhunter.se/ and fill in your application. Note that you will need a forum account – which  you hopefully already should have.

More information and a deadline beyond which I won’t consider applications any longer will follow in due time. School is still keeping me all too busy, guys, and sorry about that!

There’s now a Twitter feed for Seal Hunter over in the sidebar, which I will hopefully utilize to bring you more frequent – and also more brief – updates. At least being forced to stay beneath a certain message length will aid that sentiment.

On a different note, I’ve just finished a very painful albeit necessary switch to a new font rendering library (Glyph Keeper, for those inclined). I’ve yet to polish up the implementation of the new music library though, so buh. Should take me an hour or two to fix up, at some point.

‘Til next time. Or ’til next Tweet. Either!

(This especially goes for those who aspire to become beta testers. Proving yourself active is good!)

Join us today!

Welcome to the development and news blog for a game currently in development, and also currently titled “Seal Hunter”. Don’t fret, however; it’s not a complete rip of The Seal Hunter, but instead a remake of the original concept with a number of changes and new features to it. Currently, Seal Hunter has been under development since February 2008 and has come a fair way since the start, and has moved from being a simple hobby of mine to becoming my final project for high school.

Anyhow, I digress. Hopefully there will be more content soon, with semi-regular updates on how the game development is coming along – at least as long as Real Life ™ allows me enough time to do so.

See you again soon!