Well as you may have guessed from the lack of updates here, I haven’t quite been working on UQM:XNA too much nowadays.

Essentially the project finally ran out of steam.  Factors include: making it onto XBLCG would be complicated since its Toys For Bobs IP, there being a ton of work remaining just to get it to a finished state(not to mention my old code is not very efficient and doesnt run well on the XBOX), and not much interest on my part to pursue making a PC only version.

So what have I been doing lately?  I’ve spent the last few months finishing up what will be my first XBLCG game- Puzzwords!

Essentially it’s Scrabble combined with Columns :)  It took a while to complete but I am pretty satisfied with the end result.  I am very happy I managed to fit in online multiplayer and highscore lists, it looked like I wouldn’t be able to do it at first    I have my fingers crossed that people will actually play it online!  Most XBLCG games dont have big enough audiences to sustain online multiplayer for very long, but I am hoping the 31 player matches will help instead to just limiting it to one vs one.

Coming soon to Community Games (as soon as it passes peer review)

<br /><a href=”http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=ed43f680-9a9a-4d40-9f43-4c9205fdb3da” target=”_new” title=”Puzzwords Trailer”>Video: Puzzwords Trailer</a>