I believe that at least some of you would really like to know what’s going on inside Emotion Rays right now. Well, the retirement of Reflexive become the worst thing I could imagine. Because Big Fish Games partnership program sucks and developers still prefer to live in the imaginary world where their games costs $19.95. So I have to delay some plans on contests and website development until the income from the EmotionRays.com website will become more or less clear to plan the expenses. And in the meanwhile I finally can focus all my attention on the game development.

Shame on me, no new releases from Emotion Rays since 2004.

I have several game ideas to do, including the Caribbean Treasures 2. And its really hard to make a choice because every idea still have many weak sides. I think there will be lots of close alpha tests and then some beta tests until the new big game will be announced.

But first I’d like to make a small game for iPhone/iPod to restore my game development skills that I haven’t used for 5 years. It will be a simple game about a knight.

I believe that its hard to be a knight. There’s too many dragons to slay and too many prinesses to save… And the worst thing is that almost all of them want to get married on you. But as long as dragons will kidnap princesses, there’s always a well-paid job for a true hero.

In the game you’ll have to use different items and stuff to help the knight to get to the princess and to save her from the dragon.

I hope that the first playable level will be done in 2-3 weeks and of course I’ll post more details as soon as they’ll come.

And now a few words about user accounts, comments, rewards and free games…

There was an idea to give a virtual medal for a useful comment or good review. At the end of each month a user who earned the highest number of medals should be awarde with several games on his choice. However, everything have rapidly changed when Reflexive announced their retirement – they was the main partner and the primary source of income. And right now EmotionRays.com might not make enough profit to fund such contest.

Anyway, I have some marketing plans for the nearest future. So please cross the fingers and wish me luck with them.

If they’ll work as I expecting, this contest will be up and running. And also some other activities with free games as a reward. But first, EmotionRays.com should become slightly more popular. That’s why I can’t give any terms or dates right now.

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