It's been very quiet on the FFB development front, a bit too quiet in fact for my tastes. This is due to me having a hard time at work with doing lots of new stuff (C#, ASP.NET and Cloud Computing) and getting into that. On top of watching the world championship I've been ill and had my cellar flooded by the worst thunderstorm we've had around here in a decade. Busy times.

Currently I'm working on implementing some Vampire love, namely the Bloodlust and Hypnotic Gaze skills. The former had its rules changed quite a bit in LRB6 and is tough to implement: A vampire can for instance start a pass action, roll a 1 for Bloodlust, do his move, bite a thrall and then throw the ball. He cannot throw if he has no one to bite at the point of his move where he actually wants to throw. Luckily I'm pretty much done with that (no more OFAB touchdowns, either).

Thanks to Lakrillo and a friend of his I was able to add several sounds (4 in-game and 2 spectator sounds) as well. And no, I won't tell - you'll have to discover them yourself in the next release :-)

Getting help with coding sadly hasn't worked out so far. There have been several offers, Christer and me did spend quite some time to get the helpers set up, but input has been very weak or non-existent. Will have to think a bit on how (and if) to continue that.

Speaking of helpers I'd once again like to thank WhatBall not only for his graphics but also for slaving away at the configuration files to get them player icons set up properly. I will need to use your help again for the portraits, but you've been expecting this, didn't you?

Version 0.5.4 will most likely be released before the end of the month.