{"id":274,"date":"2013-06-06T22:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T10:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/?p=274"},"modified":"2014-02-08T09:53:07","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T20:53:07","slug":"five-hundred-redesign-in-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/five-hundred-redesign-in-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Hundred redesign in development"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_275\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-275\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-275 \" title=\"Five Hundred game\" alt=\"Five Hundred game screenshot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/500.jpg\" width=\"490\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/500.jpg 816w, http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/500-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-275\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Five Hundred game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Update: Version 1.00 now available &#8211; get it from <a title=\"Five Hundred \u2013 Version 1.0 now released!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/five-hundred-version-1-0-now-released\/\">this link<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wow, far, far too long between posts!<\/p>\n<p>Icefall development is currently on hold for a little while as&#8230; the problem is&#8230; I&#8217;m not finding it as<strong> fun\u00a0<\/strong>to play as it should be. So I think I need to take a break and focus on something smaller and easier for a little while.<\/p>\n<p>Out of all my past projects, my &#8220;X500&#8221; game is the one I still get the most comments and emails about. Back in the day, I wanted to play the Five Hundred card game, but, looking around the &#8216;net, decent implementations were pretty much non-existant. So I created a version and released it online. Surprisingly, it actually was fairly well received and became quite popular (Completely Free Software gave it a &#8220;5 stars award&#8221; which was pretty cool).<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, back at that time I was working on a game\/graphics library that was source-compatible between DOS and Windows\/DirectX versions&#8230; (looking back, I have no idea why I clung to DOS compatibility for so long.. oh well). As a consequence, I couldn&#8217;t implement a 100% compatible DirectX implementation for the Windows version&#8230; and as a result, \u00a0it no longer runs currently on modern Windows versions.<\/p>\n<p>So, time for a rewrite! Looking around the internet, I came to the disappointing realisation that there are <strong>still<\/strong> no really good Five Hundred games out there! So I&#8217;m currently putting the finishing touches on a redesign (early screenshot of the new version above) for Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, and 8 PCs (yes, it will even support touchscreen play since I recently bought a Surface Pro tablet for testing).<\/p>\n<p>I also want to take the opportunity to improve some of the AI from the old version. I hope to release the final version by the end of June!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Version 1.00 now available &#8211; get it from this link! Wow, far, far too long between posts! Icefall development is currently on hold for a little while as&#8230; the problem is&#8230; I&#8217;m not finding it as fun\u00a0to play as it should be. So I think I need to take a break and focus on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2722,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[43,45,79],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code","tag-43","tag-card-games","tag-five-hundred"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2722"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}