15 July 2007

We are pleased to announce version 0.2.0001 of Digital Dojo is now available for trial online. If you are a registered tester or received a promotional license for Digital Dojo, you may download it here. Otherwise click on the thumbnail below to try it out in your browser.

Digital Dojo is a martial arts tournament game with a card-play mechanic. A match is played out as a series of rounds, with players selecting cards each round to represent their actions in the round. Click on the thumbnail to the left to try out the latest public test version of Digital Dojo, or read more here.

When played online, Digital Dojo allows players to develop a character whose skills evolve over time. Our Vespucci^TM world exploring software will add a new element to Digital Dojo. Players can travel the countryside searching for reclusive masters to teach them new techniques, visit schools in towns and cities to compete against each other or the school's students and teachers, and complete quests. Click on the thumbnail to the left for a look at an early Vespucci screenshot. Or, if you are a registered tester, log in first then return here and click on the thumbnail to run the latest version of Vespucci.

Not a tester? Want to be? Apply here.

01 June 2007

We have added ten new domino games (Matador, Volapuk, and eight new scoring variations for Muggins and Sniff) to Digital Dominoes Deluxe and Digital Dominoes Online. We have added three of these games (Matador, Muggins - All Threes, and Sniff - All Threes) to our free Digital Dominoes Basic software, and have also added Pai Gow to Digital Dominoes Basic. With these additions, our software now allows you to play 21 different domino games!

We have also updated our dominoes page to provide rules for 46 different domino games, including what we believe to be the best set of English-language rules to be found anywhere on the Internet for Asian games such as Bag Chen and Tien Gow.

Remember, if you already have bought Digital Dominoes Deluxe you are entitled to free upgrades to the latest version of the software.

A big round of thanks to Domino-Games.com, which continues to provide us with valuable input on how to improve our domino software.

After centuries of isolation, the far-flung worlds of man are making their first tentative steps back into space. Trade and exploration are the work of the day. Bold entrepeneurs set out to make their fortunes among the stars. Intrepid explorers seek the vistas lying beyond new horizons, or the secrets buried in the wreckage of a society destroyed by The Great Plague. Dedicated scientists work ceaselessly to unlock the secrets of technologies lost in the chaos that struck man down hundreds of years ago. And selfless men and women maintain vigilent watch over the new society emerging from the ashes of the past.

This is the universe of PlutoCrat, a game in which you take the role of a young man or woman in a newly-emerging interstellar society. Hidden among the tens of thousands of worlds are a lifetime of secrets to uncover and opportunities to seize.

Digital Gamers, Inc. is now accepting applications for gamers wishing to become Plutocrat Alpha testers. learn more >>

18 June 2006

Boss is a challenging new way to play poker dice. Each round, players try to get the highest poker hand in just two throws of the dice. The player with the highest hand after the first throw is the Boss. The odds are stacked in the Boss' favor, since the Boss gets to decide whether to continue a round or call it off. But there's a catch - the Boss in each round is also the banker and will have to pay every player who beats the Boss' poker hand.

Learn more here.

2 June 2006

A new version of the Cribbage card game is available beginning today. This new version adds the capability to select between one and three computer opponents, and to set the game point at 60 or 120 points. The new version also features several improvements to the user interface, including pausing after each card is played and better messages about whose hand is being scored at the end of each round of play.

Still in development are minor improvements to the layout of the user interface, highlighting each player's name as they take their turn, and an improved card drawing routine.

1 June 2006

After being suspended for several weeks, FishPond has been restored to the site. Though players will not see any visible change in the game, there are a number of changes in the FishPond server to maintain compatibility with infrastructure changes introduced as part of ongoing improvements to site security.