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Dozen Days Pentalogy

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The history of the Dozen Days Pentalogy is kind of mixed up. Initially, for a brief stint when I was going to make Blazing Games have daily updates (back in the time when I had hopes of turning Blazing Games into something more than a hobby) I decided that I would have a series of games that were created in a single day. Just after announcing the project, I got a real third-party project and had to cancel my daily update plans as well as put on hold the Dozen Days project.

I then had an idea for a single game that would combine the 60 games (5 series of 12 games) that made up the planned series. The first epi was created and then I ended up again putting the series on hold.

The next time I came back to the series, I decided to go back to the original game in a day roots and create each episode of the series as a game-in-a-day challenge. This was successfully done for the first series in the game, Dozen Days of Dice. In Dice, the only code/assets that I allowed myself to use was code/assets that I created for earlier episodes in the series. Code-reuse actually did play a huge part in the development of the later episodes when I switched from Flash development to Flex development due to Flex being more Open Source Friendly. There was one problem. Finding a whole day to develop the game in was proving to be quite a challenge. So in November of 2008 I had a poll on my site asking if people cared if the games in the series were developed in a single day or if I could switch to a multiple-session development format but would still restrict the development time to under 24 hours.

For the Second series, Dozen Days of Words, I switched to that multi-session format. At the time I am writing that, the series is just underway so I will update this section when I start season 3 of this game in 2010.

 

	A Dozen Days of Dice (12 of 12 episodes released) A dozen different dice game that can be played against human (hotseat) or computer opponents.
	A Dozen Days of Words (11 of 12 episodes) The second collection is made up of word games.
	A Dozen Days of ??? The third collection has no games released yet and so the type of games that this category will consist of will remain secret until a game in this category has been released.
	A Dozen Days of ??? The fourth collection has no games released yet and so the type of games that this category will consist of will remain secret until a game in this category has been released.
	A Dozen Days of ??? The fifth collection has no games released yet and so the type of games that this category will consist of will remain secret until a game in this category has been released.