Yipe! Software

7/8/99:

Started working on piecing the new Yipe! Website together.

For now, I'm setting up the foundation of the page. I'll slowly put more and more on here as time permits.

Good news... Yipe! IV is in progress. Of course you probably don't believe anything I say in my news anymore. (Especially if you've read all the below dates and info, and realize I'm at least 1 year behind on everything I said I'm supposed to be finished with by now).

Anyway, I feel pretty strong about my current situation.

Programming guru Chris (A guy I work with) is teaming up with me on this new project.

Here are a few limited details:

Both a Mac and PC version will be released at the same time.

It will be both multi-player and single-player.

The multi-player version will consist of a huge online world where you can interact with other players.

There is no current scheduled release date. In the next month or so, we should have a better idea of how much time the project will take.
 
 

2/16/99:

Well... I think it's about time I posted some new news here on the news page.

For those of you who do not know, I finally finished school and got a real job. Yeap, I now work full time as a programmer for a local software company.

While that is good news for my income, it's bad news for my other activities. The main one affected being Yipe!. I haven't had nearly as much time as I would like to put into making new versions of Yipe! and converting it to Windows.

I hope once I get accustomed to my new schedule, I'll have some time to put back into Yipe!.
 
 

11/29/98:

Just thought I'd share with you my exciting event for the day. I grade papers for a programming class here at Chico State. One of my students named their html page: index.html. Well, I accidentally moved it into my web directory overwriting my normal page.

So, for about an hour, if you tried to go to my webpage, you got a random JAVA applet that didn't even work.

Yipe! news: Umm... nothing really new today.
 
 

11/5/98:

Version 1.4 of Yipe! III is released.

This new version is mostly to fix a bug that would not let certain characters finish the game if they killed the final monster in a certain way.

I have set goals for finish dates on upcoming Yipe! products:

Yipe! IV for the MAC: 12/25/98 (Or as close as possible)

Yipe! III for Windows: Sometime in late January of 1999.

6/29/98:

The new and improved Yipe! Software website is now in place.

Look for the new Yipe! Software Customer Survey.

More Good News...

Today I purchased a new Pentium II computer (Ack! it's not a Mac!) and will begin to start converting Yipe! III to Windows again.
 
 

5/20/98:

Good News: A new version of Yipe! III has been released!

  Version 1.3 hit the world on 5/20/98.

  The major new features for Yipe! III version 1.3 include:

   Added 2 new Spells, which can be learned around level 34 and 40.

   Added a window listing names of the first people to finish Yipe! III

   Added some keyboard shortcuts:

     You can now press 'u' in the items window to use an item.

     You can now use the left and right arrow keys to switch between which monster you are currently attacking when fighting more than 1 monster at a time.

   Modified King's Messages

   Increased chance of finding Rainbow key

   Updated and added some signs

Bad News: I no longer have the Gateway computer I was working on.

  What this means is that the conversion from Mac to Windows will be delayed until I get another computer.
 
 

3/1/98:

I've finally started working on converting Yipe! III to Windows.

Actually, I'm first working on converting Yipe! I for practice and then I will skip to Yipe! III.

I hope to have Yipe! I finished sometime this month.

As usual I'm behind in processing emails, orders, printing hintbooks, and all that stuff.

If you received your email registration letter by 2/15/98 you should have also received whatever else you ordered by now. (Like your hintbook and/or disk). If not, be sure to send me an email message.

In case you didn't know. I typically am able to check my AOL email address more often than my regular email address. My AOL address is: YipeSft@aol.com

If you know any Yipe! news... feel free to send it to me.