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Hello and Happy New Year and Merry Christmas to everyone!

As for any big project, the first thing to do when writing a game engine is to set the requirements. This will define the general direction of work and will guide all further decisions.

Right from the start we define compatibility and portability as the highest priorities for our project …

There are a number of difficulties with this:

1. VC Runtime 8.0 used in existing builds of some dependencies is not compatible with Windows 95(requires Windows 98 at least).
2. Most of the components are built with i686 instruction set, which is only available starting with Pentium Pro.

This article …

This article is based on mingw-w64 version 10, which is included with Debian Bookworm. It should be pretty straightforward to do the same thing with other mingw-w64 versions.

This update fixes an issue non-critical for game completion. We recommend you to update

A Dragon and the Tower updated to version 1.1.1

• Fixed issues with English version of the game

Please report any bugs and issues via email: inbox@silverwing.one.

You can download the game here …

This is a performance update, you don't need to update unless you've encountered any issues

A Dragon and the Tower updated to version 1.1.0

• Esperanto translation added (thanks to arbtttrn6)
• Tiny Instead and Plainstead support merged into the main branch
• Massive performance optimisations and simplified animations mode for …

Seemingly every time after an active month there is a month of decline. Project status:

• A Dragon and the Tower -- 1.1 is still being worked on; Expected updates:
  • Lowered system requirements: Official support of Windows 95 or newer, Pentium 2 CPUs; Unofficially -- i486-compatible CPU is required; You'll need something …

A month full of events:

• Streaming continues steadily; No work done on systematising the played games though;
• Website updated -- compatible with (nearly) all browsers now (for real, not just "latest-chrome-based-99%");
  • "Compatible" does not mean that the site will look exactly the same; It does, though, mean that the site will …

February is nearing its end and it's time once again to look back at what has been done and what is to be done.

No releases so far, but the progress is steady (albeit slow):

• Plainstead version of A Dragon and the Tower has some critical fixes and can be …

Ambitious goals are good... When you can reach them. Which is not the case for us. January is over and the progress is... Modest at most.

It's not easy to work on projects in spare time, since you have to share it with a lot of other things. A lot …