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feeds@yuku.com (Crank) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:12:05 GMT

Hi Julian!

Thanks for the update. Glad to know that you're still involved in tthe gaming industry. If Ubisoft was smart thaty would just give yu a boatload of cash and some time to do your own thing. I'm sure something good would come out of it.

LSN is still The Best Game Ever. Haven't seen anything else like it, or any XCOM clone that was as good as XCOM. Wish you were freed up financially so you could just create more good stuff.

The pausable...

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feeds@yuku.com (GaryPlowman) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:32:25 GMT

Look forward to the new beta.
Should be good fun..
Will it be multi-level (ground, 1st floor , 2nd floor etc)?

Good to have a new toy for the PC!!

P.s. I also was addicted to LSquad on the Amiga...

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feeds@yuku.com (Disaster Area) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:58:27 GMT

As people have said before, it's good to hear from you and that you still have plans for LSN in some form or another. I hope your personal situation improves and that the game gets the time it deserves, and the new one player game sounds interesting, as I never had a PC to run XCOM Apoc, having played the first two XCOMS on the Amiga CD32 and PS1 respectively. I did also buy the first one for the PS1 too, still got them.

Anyway, it's great to hear from you, thanks for writing !

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feeds@yuku.com (General Strike) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:40:53 GMT

Good to hear from you Julian, and I can sympathise with your woes in finding a builder. Even with getting my next door neighbour who is a carpenter to ask around I could not find anyone interested in a few days work - and ended up doing it almost entirely myself with only professional help for the electrics.

I hope things improve for you soon

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feeds@yuku.com (Redeem) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:02:15 GMT

Julian

If you get a spare moment, a question on Chessmaster -> http://codogames.yuku.com/topic/5067

Thanks
Redeem.

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feeds@yuku.com (Paleblackness) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:37:30 GMT

Ian S Sturrock wrote:
Edit: It's working now. I don't know if you waved a magic wand, or what, but it's working. All I need now is for my opponents to send me some turns.

Interface is up, but games are stuck on eternal processing again. Or at least they are...

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feeds@yuku.com (Zwack again) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:53:28 GMT

Thanks for the update! Hope the renovation goes okay and you can get back to doing work you enjoy, whatever that turns out to be.

Cheers,

Zwack

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feeds@yuku.com (Ian S Sturrock) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:04:28 GMT

Glad to hear you're still keen on LSN, Julian.

I don't think anyone can reasonably fault you for prioritising your home and your financial wellbeing over continued development of the game, personally. It's just good to hear that you still have plans for it someday, even if they're some way off.

In the meantime -- any idea why this rather important page won't load for me?

http://codo-linux1.bytemark.co.uk/LSN/GameManager

Edit:...

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feeds@yuku.com (Hero Boy) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:00:36 GMT

My brother works in PR and deals with Eastern Europe for a company.

He hates the Bulgarians.

Good to hear from you though JG.

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feeds@yuku.com (Ugly Toy) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:34:41 GMT

Hi JG, good to see your still about! Hope everything works out, if you've got a full time job and rennovations to do no wonder you've not been around!

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feeds@yuku.com (Redeem) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:23:46 GMT

Julian C Gollop wrote:
As for LSN, we have developed a new single player version of the game which runs in continuous, but pausible, real time (something similar to 'X -Com: Apocalypse'. However, I am not sure this is the right way to go to get new players. I hope we can release it for beta test some time, just to get some feedback.

Hi Julian,

Sorry to hear about Bulgaria and the...

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feeds@yuku.com (FatBoy) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:16:21 GMT

Good to hear from you Julian, nice to hear you're about

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feeds@yuku.com (Jaques Cartier) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:51:39 GMT

Hmm pretty nice idea. I hope I can find the time for it when it comes to beta, as am pretty busy at work... Won't stop my regular playing on LSN tho...

Nice to hear you're not dead or something similiar either...

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feeds@yuku.com (Paleblackness) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:59:32 GMT

Thanks for the update, Julian, and sorry to hear about your troubles in Sofia. Hope everything works out with the flat and the job. As for beta-ing your new LSN-code, I'm sure you'll find plenty of people eager to test it here - you can definitely sign me up!

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feeds@yuku.com (Duke Garland) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:31:46 GMT

Glad to hear the news, thanks for it!

very difficult to get workers prepared to work on small projects, and difficult to get reliable workers

Yeah, Bulgaria and Ukraine share such problems, so i know how it could be. Rennovation is a word scarier than moving and can last for years

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feeds@yuku.com (Daisy Chainsaw) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:49:38 GMT

Great to hear that and can't wait to see new SP version... hope that there will be Linux/Mac version too

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feeds@yuku.com (Indricotherium) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:53:20 GMT

Thanks for the update, Julian.

I'll leave it at that, because I don't want you to think that you'll be jumped like a rabid dog whenever you put in an appearance here.

I still have hopes that LSN will continue to continue because I loves it so.

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feeds@yuku.com (RotWng) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:52:10 GMT

Good to get news!

Single-player, X-com Apocalypse-styl,e LSN? I'd be thrilled to try something new, but it's unlikely it will be able to make me give up the current game ... maybe the real-time part of it may sound appealing to some new audience though.

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feeds@yuku.com (Julian C Gollop) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:46:53 GMT

Hello everybody,
You haven't heard from me in a while, so I think it's about time I explain what I have been up to. I thought moving to Bulgaria and buying a flat would be a financially manageable way of continuing independent development. However, the rennovation of the flat proved to be a major nightmare, because the the whole construction industry here is in some kind of mega-boom with property prices going up 30% last year. Hence, it has been very difficult to get workers...