Status Report

It's been a long time since I last posted, it's time to update on what all is going on.

Here's where things stand with our games:

• Pretty Good Solitaire (Windows) - We released a new version 12.1 on February 24th.  Version 12.1 added 10 games, bringing the total number of games to 710.  Version 12.2 is in development, it will add 15 games for a total of 725.  Version 12.2 will be released this summer.

• Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition - We released the long awaited version 2.0 of the Mac Edition on March 24th. Version 2.0 added 71 new games, bringing the total number of games for the Mac version to 101.  It also added a whole bunch of new features, such as Climb Mode.  Version 2.0 had a couple of crashing bugs, so we updated it to version 2.01 on May 5.  Version 2.01 seems to be very stable and is becoming quite successful.  Version 2.1 is currently in development, it will add 99 new games bringing the total to 200.  Version 2.1 should be released in a few months.

• Pretty Good MahJongg - We released a bug fix version 2.33 yesterday (May 26th).  We are planning a major new version that will add some games and features, plus we expect to have this new release for Mac OS X as well as Windows.

• Action Solitaire - we haven't released a new version of this game for some time.  We will have a bug fix update available quite soon.

• Goodsol Solitaire 101 - we released a bug fix version 1.01 in April.

• Most Popular Solitaire - we released a new version 2.0 on May 19th.  This version fixed some bugs and added Climb Mode, but the major thing about this release was that this new version is for both Windows and Mac OS X.  Most Popular Solitaire becomes our second product that runs on Mac OS X.

Comments

[Paul]

I was glad to see your blog entry. How is the economic crisis hitting your business? Is solitaire immune to the downturn?

Finally, Catblogging pictures are nice.

[Wingnut]

Hi Tom... my name is Larry Wendlandt and I just order PGS for Windows... gift CD... via some excellent correspondence with the vice president, and with the help of RegNow. I've had some hands-on time with PGS on another's computer, and have heard nothing but good things about it. Keep up the good work! The vice president did an excellent job helping me, too. Although the vice president told me a few personal things about you guys and your lives, we could still stand to see "the full story". I don't really care about the business so much. What about you and the VP's hobbies? Ages? Kids? Political alignments? Religious alignments? Beliefs? Bad habits? Do you use Visual Studio for dev? Do you gen Mac products... FROM Visual Studio? All VB code? Do you ever have to do machine/assembly language crap?

But that's getting business-ish again, isn't it? Got pets? Who/What are they? Ever been to Olney Illinois to see the non-albino white squirrels they have there? Have you figured out how to get toothpaste back into the tube? Are you and the VP's parents alive? Are they a pain in the ass and czar-ish, like MY parents are? Ever find hair growing out of your ears? Ever go over to St. Louis? Did you know that Fibbonaci numbers...

http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibBio.html

...are all over the place within lifeforms and nature? (My hobby). Ever wonder if snails grow with their coils in the opposite direction... in the southern hemisphere? Did you know you can dissolve tiny pieces of clouds... by staring at them? Know anything about quantum physics and/or string theory? Do you believe the Earth was a planned and designed thing, or happenstance? Ever tie a piece of delicious corn-on-the-cob... onto a deep sea fishing pole, and cast it into a pig pen, and have tug-o-wars with sows and boars? Ever think about Earth electromagnetism and magnetometers? Do you think the great pyramids... are sound /music-related... in any way? Do you think wintertime window frost patterns... are fractal and plant/fern-shaped... out of happenstance? Do you think window frost patterns... and certain plants... are shaped that way because they are listening to a musical chord?