This week I have added another feed to the Casual News Game Engine. I have also shortened each feed to five entries instead of the originial ten (I done this to prepare for the day when there will be many feeds). I am in the process of setting up another lead and hope to have it up within a week. I have also done some more work on the Casual Game Engine but again the extra work is all "under the hood" and is not noticable to end users. The improvements I have done recently have more to do with being able to add new feeds without having to issue a new copy of the Casual Game News Engine each time I add a new feed.
I wish everyone a merry christmas. May your christmas be happy and peaceful as well as filled with all kinds of good game play.
NEWS - December 14, 2008
This week has seen some changes to the Casual Game News Engine. All the changes are under the hood though and are not noticable to end users. All the changes were aimed at allowing new news feeds to be added easily and quickly. There are now a total of two news feeds but more are on the way. I have uploaded the new verion to the web site but I have not uploaded the new version to the various download centers. I am waiting until I have at least five feeds before doing that.
NEWS - December 7, 2008
Another week has come and gone and it seems like christmas is quickly approaching. This week I have added another news feed to the Casual Game Search Engine and I would like to add several more before I post an updated version of the software at the various download sites on the web. I will post the most recent version on this web site before I post it on the download sites. The newest news feed is from Indie Game Mall and lists the most recently released games. I hope to have another news feed added and the latest version of the software posted on this site by December 20. I would like to add at least one new feed to the software each week but I am also prototyping some new ideas for software at the same time. This prototyping takes time but is sometimes a necesity.
NEWS - November 30, 2008
The last day of the month finds me releasing another program. It is called the Casual Game News Engine. It displays news about new casual game releases. More specifically it displays the source of the news, the name of the game, a link to learn more about the game, a picture representing the game and a short description of the game. It is currently only getting information from one news source (Big Fish Games) but I hope to add more news sources to it in the near future. It is available for free and more information about it can be viewed by clicking on the appropriate link on the left side of the page. It can also be downloaded, free of charge, from the same product description page.
NEWS - November 23, 2008
I know it has been awhile since I have done an update so I am posting this quick update. Most of the delay was the result of me doing a special program for a local recording studio. The program embeds data such as performers, song name, album name, lyrics, copyright, etc... into songs. If anyone else would like to get a copy of the song embedder software I am charge on a per song embedded basis with no upfront cost for obtaining the software. For more information send me an email at jason@asahnekec.com.
NEWS - October 14, 2008
Due to having to upgrade some hardware there has been a delay in the release of the next program. How much of a delay I do not know but the next program will be a game of some sort.
The first two programs were designed to help me
NEWS - October 04, 2008
After a slighly longer delay then I originally anticipated I am now releasing my second product. It is a Lyrics Viewer which will allow the user to view song lyrics which have been embedded in songs.
The delay was the result of several programming obsticles I did not expect. I did find solutions to each of the problems and my skills as a programmer are getting better with each product.
I have a vacation coming up the last part of the month so I hope to make a lot of progress on the next program, perhaps even finish it, during that week or earlier. More information will be posted about the next product in the next update hopefully next week.
NEWS - September 20, 2008
I have decided to go ahead and release the lyrics viewer. I have two more tasks and the program will be finished (and it should definately be finished by the end of the month).
Why am I releasing it when there are so many songs that do not have lyrics embedded in them? Because I can embed lyrics (and other information such as album, artist, year, performers, etc...) in songs for a small fee. One of the tasks is to generate a new web page that will instruct customers how to place orders for this service. The lyrics viewer program will start making people aware that lyrics can be embedded in songs and as demand for this feature increases by fans this feature will become more popular.
NEWS - September 13, 2008
This week has been a fairly productive week. The next project I was going to release was going to be a lyrics viewer that would allow people to view song lyrics on their computer. The software was almost finished when I discovered that the majority of songs (especially older songs) do not have lyrics embedded in the song (which is required for the lyrics to be viewed).
I am debating about writing a program that would embed not only lyrics but also such things as year, group name, album, performers names, etc... and offering a new music embedding service through my web site.
It is too early to know if we will pursue these two projects next or pick another project. I should know by next week.
NEWS - September 7, 2008
Just a quick note today. We have been working on the next product. I am certain the next product (which I will tell you about in the next press release) will be released by the end of the month and it will also be free.
My goal is to have at least one new product released each month and I am sure we can accomplish this goal without sacrificing quality.
NEWS - August 31, 2008
We have finished our first product (the random music player). The menu to the left contains a link that will take you to a detailed web page describing the program that also contains a download link. My goal was to get this program out by the end of this month and I just barely made the goal.
NEWS - August 16, 2008
We are making steady progress on the random music player. We are programming it in C# which is a new language for me so I have the extra task of learning a new programming language at the same time. Due to this fact while progress is steady it has also been slow.
One thing I failed to mention last week was that the first three or projects I am going to release will be FREE. Yes thats right. It will not cost you anything to get the software.
NEWS - August 10, 2008
Asah Nekec Productions produces a wide variety of software from games to music utilities.
The first product we are going to release is a random music player. The random music player will automatically start and will play all the songs in the folder in random order. There will be buttons to play the next song, the previous song, to pause the song, to restart the song and to rerandomize the current list of songs. If the Random Music Player is opened from the Start Menu it will automatically go to the My Music folder (located on the Start Menu) and start playing random music in that folder. It can play .mp3, .ogg and .wav files. There will also a button across the bottom of the player that will allow you to open a new web browser at a variety of locations to find more information about the album containing the song. Once this program is released it can be downloaded here as well as from many different download sites.
You will also find two links on the left side of the page. One takes you to a casual game portal that gives free sample downloads of all games and the other takes you to a page that has some software made by other companies that I recommend.