Ugh, where does time go? Seems every day has less free time than the last. I feel like, at this rate, soon, it'll be time to go back to work before I even go home. I've barely been able to keep up with basic life tasks (taxes, bills, laundry, dishes, etc), let alone all the PM's, emails, and 27 pages of unread forum threads... and actual development work. Plus I've got like 8 new games to play.
I haven't done much with Paintball2 recently, aside from getting it to compile on my new computer. I've switched over to Visual Studio Express. I've heard the old Visual Studio .Net doesn't work with Windows 7, so I didn't bother installing it. Hopefully this won't require any new libraries or anything for users. I've also been trying to track down issues with the game not running. From looking at the uninstall surveys, it seems the vast majority of people uninstall because they can't get the game to run. I know people have been trying to get me to work on the website and promote the game more, but until the game has a positive first impression, I don't think there's a point. We were already getting like 400 downloads a day last time I checked. If the game doesn't work the first time around, I don't know if many people will give it a second chance.
I think one of the biggest problems is Windows 7 drivers. Windows 7 supports DirectX out of the box, but NOT OpenGL. Since most newer games use DirectX, people just assume there's something wrong with Paintball 2, since they haven't tried playing any other OpenGL games. It would be nice if I could just detect the video card and forward people to the page to download drivers. There are still some stability issues, too. Wish I could get more information on those.
